Whoever coined the term, “A man of few words”, could have been describing Hemingway. Famous for his short stories, Hemingway’s writing seems simplistic in nature but is often very symbolic. For instance one of his most famous short stories “Hills Like White Elephants” is just a few pages long and the central conflict is never even mentioned. It’s only through… Read more →
For our graphs, click here! Since Hemingway was Catholic, we decided to look up various terms pertaining to Catholicism in his works. Wine, which holds a strong association to the Catholic belief, is mentioned 387 times throughout both of Hemingway’s fictional and nonfictional work. He also mentions the term “cathedral” more frequently in his fictional Continue Reading Read more →
Emotions related to Weather in All Texts Using MicroSearch and comparing three different types of weather – sunny, cloudy, and rainy – sunny is the most prevalent as well as consistent weather throughout all of Hemingway’s texts. When looking at emotional words – happy, sad, and angry – happy also appears the most throughout his texts. […] Read more →
In the collective writing of Ernest Hemingway, we noticed some extenuating trends throughout his thousands of pages of text. While he focuses much of his attention onto his characters, their feelings, and their actions, Hemingway integrates the stories of animals into his depictions of human life. We decided to consider the frequency that Hemingway … Continue reading Final Project Read more →
When the Voyant Tool was up and running, our group began by exploring the Word Trend Differences tool. The Word Trend Differences tool compares the frequencies of every word between the fiction and nonfiction texts. The differences in frequencies are represented by a z-score value, or the number of standard deviations the word appears… Read more » Read more →