In five pages the importance of understanding hypertext is considered in terms of greater comprehension of Allison's text. There is no bibliography included.
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how any single story holds multiple stories within it just waiting to be told. The very essence of hypertext in this particular situation is to uncover all the substories
Allison has to tell that live just beneath the primary story. For example, if the author is telling a story about the way she was poorly treated as a
woman, there is significantly more behind the seemingly simple theme of gender oppression than what lies upon the surface. For Allison, there are multiple elements that have led up
to any specific story, and it is the ability to relay those significant aspects - in the linking form of hypertext fashion - that makes the story take on an
entirely new and different perspective. The student will find that the underlying hypertext that collectively weaves together all of Allisons stories is the quest for healing: physically, mentally, emotionally and
spiritually. When one looks at the basis of her tales, it becomes easy to see they are filled with pain, suffering and inequality, all of which cry out for
a soothing of the mind and spirit. The story she tells about sifting through old photographs reveals a great deal of the authors quest for healing, in that it
depicts a person who is desperate to purge these bad memories from her mind as she sits and languishes over pages and pages of pictures of people she no longer
wants to associate with her own life because of the abusive scars they represent. Employing hypertext in this particular story finds the reader wanting to know more about Allisons fears
and resentments toward these people; to learn who they were, why they were abused and what they ultimately did to escape the abuse. If each photo were a hypertext