In fact, Moulthrop is more interested in questioning how a palette of information technologies contributes to-or, for those who adopt the strong reading, determines-the formation of political ideologies. Its political orientation in a sense mirrors its material structure, for neither sits on a stable axis. This includes Harley, Boris Urquhart, Veronica, Leroy, and others.Īccording to David Ciccoricco, "Although some early critics were quick to see Victory Garden as rooted in a leftist political ideology, Moulthrop's narrative is not unequivocally leftist. There are many reoccurring characters in Victory Garden. During a party an appearance from Uqbari the Prophet leads to a gun being fired off in her back yard which results in the intervention of police and the accidental beating of Harley. One of the pivotal scenes in Victory Garden occurs at Thea's house.Central to the plot of Victory Garden is Thea's role as head of a Curriculum Revision Committee looking at the subject of Western Civilization as well her discovery with a group of friends that a popular local creek has been sold to a company intending to build a golf course nearby.She has a teenaged son named Leroy who has recently left school to take his own "On the Road" tour of the United States.Emily and her sister Veronica are her pupils.She is a professor at a University in the town of Tara.She also has a younger sister by the name of Veronica.Boris is expected to have bought a new bed Back to current time, Emily is writing to Boris, Thea is depressed, Veronica needs to pay the car insurance.Same morning, a little later on, Emily doesn’t approve of the facial hair, thinks of it as false advertising.Flashes back to a morning with Boris, hints towards an event earlier on in their relationship, Boris has facial hair, Emily it undecided on whether she likes it or not.Emily is reading “Blood and Guts in High Schools” which Boris sent her.Emily has been with Boris for 3 years, losing love for him?.Emily is with Boris but may have had something with the Victor?. ![]() Emily has been through law school and she has an older brother.Each of these paths guides the reader though fragmented pieces of the story (in the form of node) and by reading and rereading many different paths the reader receives different perspectives of the different characters. The reader may enter the text through a variety of means: the map of the 'garden', the lists of paths, or by the composition of a sentence. Upon entering the work the reader is presented with a series of choices as to how to navigate the story. The choices the reader makes can lead them to focus on individual characters, meaning that while there are a series of characters in the story the characters focused on can change with each reading, or a particular place. The passage of time is uncertain as the reader can find nodes that focus on the present, flashbacks or even dreams and the nodes are frequently presented in a non-linear fashion. ![]() How the story plays out depends on the choices the reader makes during their navigation of the text. However, in another "ending", she comes home safe from the war. In one such "ending", Emily appears to die. Rather there are multiple nodes that provide a sense of closure for the reader. Each character in Victory Garden lends their own sense of perspective to the story and all characters are linked through a series of bridges and connections. Although Emily is a central figure to the story and networked lives of the characters, there is no one character who could be classed as the protagonist. The story centres on Emily Runbird and the lives and interactions of the people connected with her life. ![]() Victory Garden is a hypertext novel which is set during the Gulf War, in 1991. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story as an important work of hypertext fiction. It was written in StorySpace and published by Eastgate Systems in 1992. Victory Garden is a work of electronic literature by American author Stuart Moulthrop.
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