Text Analysis
For my Text Analysis, I found two texts labled as doorway.txt, and flowersarenot.txt. While looking for texts to do my comparison, I would browse through the radioplays we have in the introDH folder when I found the Doorway document. I looked at the document in 1 N-Gram and it just gave me this sad vibe. I saved it and later found the Flowers document, and it gave me the same feeling too, it will be the second text in my comparison. As shown below, there are two pictures (Doorway 1, Flowers 1). It is each of the documents being ran through AntConc at 1 N-Gram. Already off the bat, Flowers has a larger word count at 6550, and Doorway has 4408 words. The pictures show that there isn't much going on in 1 N-Gram, except 'Tommy' in Doorway and 'Edward' in Flowers are placed second.
In the pictures Doorway and Flowers 2, shows each document in 2 N-Gram. Now we get a hint to what the tone of each story is. In both documents, the word 'don't' is listed at second most used. Specifically, Doorway 2 has 'i don' placed third, assuming it's someone responding defencivly to the opposer. In Flowers, I get the impression that Edward is being refused a lot in some way.
Here in the third set of images, it shows each doc in 3 N-Gram. Since we have it set to Minimum 10 hits, we have significatly smaller list. I notice imediantly that even though Doorway is shorter in total word count, it has twice as many different N-Gram types. Tokens are pretty similar between docs though. Given that maybe Hits are distributed more in the types on Doorway.
I do some investigating in these next two images. In Doorway, I open KWIC for the 2 N-Gram phrase 'don't.' The context to the word is a lot of heated arguements. It looks like it's a married couple is arguing over their son Tommy, and how they don't seem to care for him at all. The mother at one point tries to give Tommy away.
Over in Flowers image, I bring up the context of the 3 N-Gram phrase 'give it up.' In here, I see that Edward is also a child whos mother act just as cruel as the one in Doorway. Edward acts a little mischivious but when he goes to pick a flower, his mother would get angry. It also suggests that Edward gets bullied by another kid and keeps getting his stuff stolen. It seemed that in both stories, both kids grew up with a lack of love from their parents.
Of course, I'm in absolute anguish while reading all of this. With all the negative language towards the characters in each story, no wonder I got such a sad vibe from both texts.
