How Not To Read Classic Children Literature

Method

I returned to the first text I analyzed, in the beginning of my Voyant adventure, J. M Barrie's Peter and Wendy, and with my initial observations in mind, I tried to find other patterns. After cleaning up the file, and entering the text into the Voyant tool, I looked at the Cirrus Cloud and tried to determine any other words that stood out in frequency. Of course, the names of the main characters had the largest word count, but another word in particular that caught my eye was "time". Out of curiosity, I chose to see the relationship between "time" and all the names of the main character.           

                                                     

Peter, Wendy, Hook, and Time

When I saw the correlations it led me to think of other novels similar to Peter Pan and Wendy. By similar, I mean that the novel had elements of fantasy but was also popular amongst children. I then came across the texts: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Five Children and It, and A Christmas Carol. With this new corpus, I again looked at the corpus and saw that the more prominent words were the main characters names, but that the word "time" had a significant number as well. With those factors in mind, I inputted the main characters names from all five books, and the word "time" to see what inquiries may arise.

On Google Ngram, I first inputted the word "time", and I compared the graphs for American English and British English.


Time in American English

 


Time in British English

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