These paragraphs reveal the selfish of the church, which is similar to the theme of The Sisters. It contains some topic words such as "God" and "church". I think we can use the topic model to find the topic words from the chapters before The Dead to form a topic model of Dubliners and finds the supply the topic model to prove that The Dead contained many themes that occurred before.

I check out the background of James Joyce. He is a person with great talent in music and he usually plays the piano in the morning and does some writing in the afternoon. His description of piano music is vivid and precise. Tense and wired music emphasizes the heavy atmosphere.

I think The Dead is a summary of Dubliners, because it contains so many themes that occur before The Dead . These sentences are a typical example. Their conversation shows their standard stereotype about nationality, which is similar to the theme of After the Race.

Although Jammy is happy that he is allowed to play with the rich, he cannot afford their expenses. What's worse, he loses a lot of money through gambling. Jammy feel unconfident and inferior due to his nationality. I guess that the writer wants to reveal the facts that the inequality in the international world will cause inequality between people from different country.

In most cases, James Joyce chooses not to introduce the background of the characters directly. This article is a special one. I think the background of Mrs. Mooney is very important in this article. Mrs.Mooney has an unhappy marriage, so she wants to control her daughter's marriage. However, it will make her life worse. I guess the writer wants to reveal the fact that the children of the lower class will become more misfortune because of their parents' thought. And then from a vicious circle, which debunks that they have a rather tenuous grasp on reality from a new perspective.

This sentence shows that Mr. Doran is very unwilling to marry Polly, let alone love her. The writer spends a lot of words to describe how regretful Mr. Doran is to emphasize that the marriage between Mr. Doran and Polly must be unhappy. Thus, the writer debunks the incalculable consequences that Mrs. Mooney's interference to Polly's marriage cause through side description.

This mental activity of Mrs. Mooney is very interesting. She takes every minute into consideration, which shows that she is very calculating. She arranges her daughter's life in a very secular way.

Although Jimmy is happy with being is allowed to play with the rich. He cannot afford their expenses. What's worse, he loses a lot of money in gambling. I think the story reflects the real frustration of the lower class. The inequality in international society will cause the inequality among people from different country.

I don't think in this sentence "gentility" is a good word. I think he must feel unconfident when entering the shop, because he is from the lower class and he doesn't have enough money. The writer emphasizes his stress and lack of confidence through irony.

I have a simple experiment to test the idea that is in my last annotation.I try to figure out what Eveline think about in each paragraph through the number of names of characters. As it is shown in the chart, Eveline recall her lover and family alternatively, which show her great hesitation in making a decision of whether she goes with Frank.

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I found that the writer describes the hesitation of Eveline through alternately recall the life of his family and her lover. I guess we can track the name of character such as Frank and Horry, father through Python3, to figure out how the writer describes Eveline mental activity.

It is a really weird conversation. I guess it doesn't contain some specific meaning, but it gives me a feel of hypocritical, which reflects society’s coldness. On the other hand, The two young man chats calmly with each other, creating a contrast with boy's intense emotions

Black cavernous nostrils and white fur form sharp colour contrast. The black cavernous indicates that Flynn is an habitual smoker;. The writer reinforces that he is an habitual smoker for many time. I guess that it may be a motif in this article.

The color of the priest costume is very strange. It is faded and blackened. I think it is an insinuation that Flynn's spirts is corroded by the church.

The title is an irony. There is no denying that the family relation is not an ideal one. I think it is a good way to provoke readers to ponder.

There are many words that related to flower, which we can track by "wordnet". I think the flower is a motif in this article. Ellen loves flower very much which seems his only hobby. Her whole life is under control of her employer. Ellen’s frequent mention of flowers expresses her desire to free.

I think the picture on the wall reflects the relationship between William and Isabel. A young man symbolizes for William. I guess the reason why he is"over life-size"but, wobbly is that he has lost his original family status. The woman symbolizes for Isabel. Her uneven length of arms shows that Isabel has both traditional family values and modern family values.I think the special appearance of man and woman shows subtle family relation during transitional period from traditional to modern.

It is a noticeable expression. He says Woman's engines and man's heart, which shows that Women are considered inferior in his mind.

It is weird that Mr Hammond calls his wife Mrs.Hammond. I guess that it indicates his strong possessiveness to his wife. In his mind, he equated his wife with money and regarded it as his own private property.

Hammond is very satisfied when his wife is praised by others. He, however, doesn't care for his wife at all. He even doesn't know her dressing styles. The reason why he feels happy is that other's praise satisfy his vanity, just like his treasured artwork is appreciated by others.

I think this sentence shows the stress that Ma Parker confronts from all ranks of society. I supposed that the police represent for the power. They squeezes the poor through their power. The stranger stand for the normal people who are also refuse to offer help to Ma parker. What‘s more, her children can't understand her difficulties neither.

There is many noticeable monologues in this article. A typical example is as follow." <br><br> (1)“She’s had a hard life, has Ma Parker.” (2)Yes, a hard life, indeed! (3)Her chin began to tremble; (4)there was no time to lose. But where? Where?<br><br> (1) is the question hypothesized by the author, questioning the author himself. (2) is the answer that given by the author himself to emphasize how tough Mr. Parker’s life it is. (1) and (2) constitute a self-examination and self-answer to enhance the reader's resonance, guiding readers to feel Mr. Parker's miserable life. (3) is the third person's description of the character. After that, the author inserts a monologue (4) again. From (1) to (4), it contained both the objective description and the emotional expression.

Use of Punctuation in this article is noticeable. The apostrophe occurs 20 times in this short article(apostrophe only occurs 42 times in The Moonstone). In this sentence, the apostrophe indicates that Josephine and Constantia hesitate in making a decision of cooking method of fish and get used to control by their father. Another typical example of the use of the apostrophe is in chapter 6.<br><br> “but … but they weren’t in father’s room at all. ”.<br><br> Stammering and stuttering show they are so afraid that dare not enter their father's room.

The sun is a usually a symbol for good things. I think that in this place the sunlight symbolizes for the happy life of them. The sunlight shone almost golden, which indicates that how thirsty for free and happy life they are. However, there is merely a square of sunlight, which indicates that the wish of love is unrealistic.

After discussion with our group members, we think that lily is a symbol of the upper class. The reason is perhaps that at that time only the upper class can afford lily. Mrs. Sheridan said the underclass hate lily. I guess that it indicates there exists acute class contradictions at that time.

There is no denying that Laura thinks a party with the dead is not a successful party. So I supposed that it is a verbal irony. There are also many ironies in The Moonstone. How can we track the irony through a computational method? I think this example of irony gives me an inspiration. There are some passive words which indicate the meaning that is ostensibly expressed in this paragraph, but "the most successful" are positive words. The strong contrast can be a typical symbol for the computer to recognize irony.

I suppose that karaka trees are the symbol which symbolizes for Laura. Laura's idea is restricted by her mother and knows little of the outside world. Karakas trees also grow on isolated a desert island. Laura is a girl who has the Spirit of Resistance. She wish to have freedom from her mother. karakas trees also lift their leaves and fruits to the sun to pursue freedom.

“Alas” is a typical modal particle that only used by Clack which occurs 10 times. The majority of them(80%) is related to Godfrey and Rachel.These words express her jealousy to Rachel and her love for Godfrey. Meanwhile, "Alas" also indicates that Clack is an emotional caricature woman.

It is a very dramatic plot. I wonder that how he can predict who is the guilty person. In fact, he did a very bad job at the very beginning that he struggled for a lot time but he did not figure out the truth. I read Betteredges’s part again and find something noticeable. Mr. Cuff’s behaves is quite weird which seems he knows the truth and pretends to know nothing. Firstly he said something really weird such as "The pieces of the puzzle are not all put together yet". “but that’s a secret which I mean to keep to myself. ”. Secondly, Mr. Cuff writes the bank where the moonstone are hidden in chapter 22 of the first period. "He wrote accordingly on a blank leaf–“Mr. Septimus Luker, Middlesex-place, Lambeth, London. ” ". In conclusion, Mr. Cuff is likely to know the truth at the very beginning, but he didn't speak it out because of lack of evidence.

He accustoms to describe everything precisely. The narrative of Jennings contains a lot of numbers, such as "twenty-three minutes past twelve","five minutes to twelve","June 24th". He honestly records what happened between June 15th to June 25th. I guess this is her occupational habit.

Previous narrators make a brief statement in the Epilogue. I think it looks like a curtain call of the narrators which make the reader vividly feel the emotion of narrators. I really appreciate the structure of the novel a lot and very enjoy reading it. The story is told by different narrators which do not make the novel disconnected but make the novel full of mystery.

The sixth narrative is quite different from the previous narrative, which is a detective report and writes in a semi-formal style. Cuff only reports what he has discovered rather than expresses personal feelings. I suppose that the frequency of "I" can show this point of view. The frequency of "I" in the sixth narrative is significantly lower than the others. <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wangziyi2016/Text-analize/master/I.png" width = "350" height = "350" alt="图片名称" align=center />

As we can see, we are closed to the truth. The climax the story occurs. The writer use two methods to create tense atmosphere. Firstly, sentences in this chapter are very short , which make reader feel the pace is quick . Secondly, in this chapter there is so many exclamation points（!）to show how excited Franklin and Jennings are.

Metaphor is very common in literature. Franklin compared Jennings's help to the last gleam of sunshine in order to express his gratitude for Jennings. There are many other metaphors in the Moonstone. They are very important to express the emotions or opinions of characters. I guess that we can track the metaphor through a regular expression. Eg: []+like+[], compared+[]

Mr Bruff is a very rational person. He research the loss of moonstone objectively and his judgement is mostly based on evidence. I guess the proportion of ''facts'' and ''opinion'' can be a index to show whether his narrative is objective or not.

At the end of the first narrative, Rachel break the engagement and Godfrey agree with it without argument. The reason why Rachel breaks the engagement and the reason why Godfrey accepts it happily is revealed by Mr. Bruff in this chapter. I think it is a typical example of the unique information flow in Moonstone. The writer is so sagacious that he arranges one narrator to show the strange events and lets another narrator reveal the truth and raise some new puzzles. As a result, the writer can promote the development of the plot and reveal the mystery behind it at the same time. It makes readers keep curious all the time because there is fascinating''truth'' in every narrative.

"Cotton man" and "iron man" are typical description of Franklin's mood. Franklin's mood changes is very notable after the diamond disappears. I supposed we can capture the words related to mood change and mark it on the timeline through computational techniques.

Franklin laments that the Moonstone compromised relationships and destabilized families. England is defined by noble traditions of family. Why Moonstone can spoil the family? There are two chief reasons. Firstly, the desire to wealth causes big conflict within families. Secondly, violation of religious and colonization bring many unstable elements to the society. References:Hang Jin-feng (English Department, PLA University of Foreign Languages, Luoyang 471003, China) (Anti)-Orientalism as Reflected in“TheMoonstone”

“see through a glass darkly” is to have an obscure or imperfect vision of reality. The expression comes from the writings of the Apostle Paul. The writer leave reader with a cliffhanger with the help of allusions. Meanwhile, it hints someone knows the truth at the very beginning. source:http://www.dictionary.com/browse/through-a-glass-darkly

I guess this dialogue is designed to emphasize that the Moonstone is a hot potato. Although the Moonstone may bring a lot of trouble, people still zealously pursue it because of desire for wealth.

Rosanna’s joy is in stark contrast to her sadness before she meet Franklin. "lonely," "crying," "suffocating," and "dreadful" are adjectives that writer use to describe Rosanna at the beginning. After meeting Franklin, she become "softly," " breathless surprise," " breathless surprise,". The sharp contrast before and after vividly depicts that she love Franklin at the first sight.

From the following lines we can see that" the English gentleman" is Mr.Frank and "It" represents the moonstone. How can the jugglers predict Frank ’s arrival through ceremony with ink? May be the juggler really has some supernatural power and they demonstrate to Betteredge. The ceremony with ink enhance the mystique of the story and give me an impression that a battle is simmering below the surface.

This paragraph introduce the personality of Miss Rachel.We can easily understand Rachel is a charming ,independent and maverick lady with human being's brain.But how can we teach computer to extract or summarize the personality of one character?May be we can traverse the whole novel to extract all the words or clauses that modify a certain character.And we can use some statistical approaches such as clustering analysis to summarize information.