ARGUMENT
The hypertext reflects a
pregnancy in a woman. There isn’t a lot of information about the characters to
give the sensation that what’s happens can be transferred into a current couple
that is waiting for a baby.
The woman obsesses herself
with the pregnancy and carries it badly. She doesn’t tolerate the changes that
her body is experimenting; also her mood is horrible with various episodes of
crisis. She doesn’t like the pregnancy clothes and thinks in possible diseases
that can affect the foetus (or even in the death of the baby). This last fear
is very repetitive and will remain in the lector producing a few features of
ambiguity in the narration.
You will pee and wipe and feel something squishy. You will say (to God, or to no one), "Please please don't let me be having a miscarriage." Month Six: Your Mucus
However, despite this, she sometimes maintains a bad attitude that can injure the baby. She is conscious of what she is doing, but there are some moments in which she needs to evade her mind about the pregnancy:
Your yoga teacher will tell you not to lie on your
stomach anymore. […] You will roll over into an awkward, one-armed cobra pose for one,
last, on-your-stomach before it's too late. Month
Five: Your Cobra
An important
information appears in comment: Your
mother will visit and she will gush good will even though you have been at each
others' throats since you graduated from college and did not live out her
dreams of the life she didn't have. Month
Eight: Your Mother This can actuate like a fast brief
of the woman’s life.
Her husband is the figure
that is disposed to help, he knows that the best thing he can do is maintaining
his patience and sometimes her wife understands that she has been too strong
with him.
Other element present in the
story is the books directed to parents for first time, in diverse situations
their advices cause a behavioural change in the couple. This shows us that a
pregnancy is a complex fact and all class of help is appreciated specially in
ignored themes.
He will buy you flowers because that's what all the
how-to-be-an-expecting-dad books tell the dads to do. Month
Three: Your Amnio
You will not start to feel the baby move when the books say you are supposed to feel it move. So you will tell your husband the baby is dead. Month Four: Your worries
To summarize, the pregnancy
has altered all their lives and it advances slowly showing in this time the
problems of the two most important characters. When the baby is born at the
nine month she suffers a strong pain due to the effort, but she turns to be
pregnant again soon because with the time the intolerable experience is
forgotten. With this, all the process starts again like in a wheel.
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Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Saturnino Figueroa Guerola
safigue@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press