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• 1 2019-11-13T14:28:40-08:00 Having or not Having Control 11 plain 2019-11-18T20:51:05-08:00 * In this scene which the colorful bubble lights are flowing around the dark screen, the readers first have the control of them which the bubbles will follow the motion of the mouse as the reader moves it around. Then, at some point, the reader loses control of them. They start jumping around randomly, not that one can control anymore.
  
  * The text appears on screen telling the protagonist’s story from the first person perspective: “My entire life, I believed I had infinite prospects before me.” After touching the text with the cursor, it scrambles briefly, and is followed by the next line: ... after the main character's perspective, it states: "How can I have grasp on what happens to me?/ Everything escapes me./ Slips through my fingers.” By first letting the readers control where the bubbles will appear and where they moves, and later making the bubbles move automatically, the narrator displays an example of losing a control to something one once had. This idea is referenced in one of the pieces our class read earlier: "Domesticating the First-Person Shooter" by Bowman, which mentions that playing a game both gives the players a control of where they want to be but at the sametime a limitation according to the set up rules of the games. Nobody can have a full control of everything they encounter. 
  
  * This passage establishes the general mood of the piece: The perception of control unsettled by the experience of doubt.