You should write c. a journal-sized page in response to each question, idea or prompt noted below. You may become interested in another aspect of the text, or another fragment of the story and wish to write about that. Go ahead, but please write down very clearly the topic/theme you are investigating at the head of the page-long entry. You may replace a maximum of two of my topics with your own topics.

1) Summarize, in so far as you can, the separate story lines that exist in the text. Which is the dominant 'story'? What in the text leads you to this decision? If you see no dominant 'story', explain with careful quotation how you 'see' or 'understand' the text. (You should work on this question throughout the last three classes of the semester.)

2) Trace the development of ideas about the creation of identity in the text, Patchwork Girl. Use quotation from the text to support your interpretations. You should note in parenthesis after the quotation the title of the text block from which it comes.

3) Choose one voice, or set of voices, which you can trace through a major section of the text. Why did you choose this voice/these voices? How would you describe it/them? What is/are its/their role(s) within the text? How does/do it/they contribute to the discussion of either gender or identity?

4) Choose one titled section of the text from the storyspace map. Read all the text blocks within that titled section. What themes/ideas are common to all the text blocks? Or are the themes diverse? Why might all these text blocks be included together in this section? What does the titled section as a whole achieve as a unit of the entire text?

5) Define hypertext. Analyze your experience as a reader of hypertext fiction. What have you liked? What have you disliked? What have you found easy/difficult? To what extent has the author disappeared and surrendered authority to the reader, or is the authority of the reader to construct the text simply an illusion orchestrated by the author? Justify your decision.

6) What have you learned from reading Patchwork Girl? You should look at the content of the book, your experiences as a digital reader, and your computer skills.