Upon choosing this title I had never read it before and had no clue what it is about. My prediction is that this is a novel about the expectations of life versus the realities of life. I expect the book is uplifting and revolving around one ultimate lesson about life’s journey. I think words that will appear frequently throughout the book will be “Life,” “Death,” “Think,” and “Know.”
This is an image of what came up when I pasted all of the book’s contents into voyant tools. I was right about one of my words… “Know.” This was interesting to me because it was the last word I thought of but one of the most prominent words in the frequent word generator. After pasting only the first half of the book into voyant tools, this is what I got:
“Know” is no longer in the top five words most frequently used. This made me wonder if the word “know” has to do with knowledge gained in the second half of the novel. Maybe lessons have been learned or lessons are being discussed and the narrator or the reader is supposed to have gained new knowledge in the second half.
Looking back on the assignment, voyant tools was an interesting way to get a feel for a text without knowing anything about it. It is also an easy way, say if you decided to use the tool on multiple texts from one author, to get a feel for an author’s writing style by studying words they use repeatedly throughout multiple works.