She is often looking to the past and reminiscing. She holds a positive front to all of her peers and superiors, but she is deeply depressed about her life.

Maria lives her life and has her thoughts very confined to social protocal. This is the first thought she has displayed that is negative.

This repetition elongates the journey that Maria is taking. It also places more importance on Belfast as a place in Maria's mind.

"It" here must be his mind and subscounscious.

Both Mr. Doran and Mrs. Mooney are anxious and agitated by the affair, which means a smooth resolution is set to occur. However, we never here Polly's opinion. The lack of knowledge of what Polly thinks foreshadows that there will be a problem with the marriage.

I don't know if George's Churchs' bells ringing is a motif, but it is a signal as to if something good or bad is happening. The first time we see the bells is when the Summer day is being described and Mrs. Mooney is having breakfast.

Many of these short stories are about priests and death. Death can mean a lot of things, but a priest dieing carries a spiritual tone throughout the story.

This abrupt interjection causes ambiguity in what is blind. The narrator wanting us to know something, whether himself or the street, is blind shows it will be central to the story.

There is an omninous tone because of the sudden switch between the narrator sitting in bed thinking about "it" and justing going about his day looking at a shop.

Leo Dillon does not sound like an Indian's name, but Mahony does. While this is depicting a colonized school, there is some sort of integration here that one would not associate with being colonized.

There is an emphasis to show that Joe Dillion is either great and wonderful for introducing them to the Wild West or he is to blame some how for introducing them to the Wild West. This phrase could also be emphasized because the narrator is reminicing about old times.

Like Spring in the beginning, the perfect house with flowers is personified by talking to Mr. Neave. Everything from Spring, Harold, girls, and the now house is a juxtaposition of the old man Mr. Neave.

Mr. Neave knows how old and tired he is, yet this is the first time it was said out loud. This statement by his daughter shows that Mr. Neave is prideful about his job and is stubborn.

This author repeatedly uses the word "heaven" in many of their stories. This idea that Leila is under the narrator's wing further's the idea that the main characters are angels.

This is an interesting construction of the sentence. I believe this is called passive voice, as opposed to an active voice? Using POS tagging we could see which sentences passive and active, possibly.

While a love letter is thought of as romantic and kind, here it is a gentle nudge of something bad underneath the service. This is shown by the choice of "gentle reminder".

This scene is very descriptive, yet partially up to interpretation. I wonder if we go put this into a computer program and it out puts an accurate drawing based on the description or goes and finds an accurate image off the internet.

Usually fancy toys and a higher class education like the Royal Academy would be sought after and based on the word "new" in front of Isabel they once were. This affair completely changed the direction of the family, but the father and children have not bought into it.

It is not clear who "I" is. I is an omniscient narrator because he sees and hears everything, as well as knows the thoughts of the mother in the beginning when she thinks her daughter comes from heaven.

She is characterized as pure, innocent, and young in the first paragraph, but based on her needing money the daughter must be older and from a less wealthy family.

While their father is deceased and they have logistical things to figure out, it is unclear what is so "complicated." This statement foreshadows a deeper, bigger complication to come.

Constantia has a funny way of seeing things. It is as if she put herself in the mind of a mouse and looked at their point of view.

This is an interesting adjective to describe her shoes. Is it the shoes that are indefinite or the green that is indefinite? Indefinite is meant to be indescribable.

Previously, "kitty" was said like a nickname, but here it is a first name. This first name makes this character seem sweet, niave, and taken less seriously by the rest of the characters and by the reader.

Making it seem like the picture is from a newpaper allows Laura to distance herself from the reality of the death. This makes it easier to have the party and make her mom and Jose happy.

Also, "it" here refers to the picture of the family and the dead man. I wonder if we could use the NLTK to figure out what "it" means based on the words around it.

By calling him "drunken", Jose intends to make the death seem less significant or even justified. Yet, saying this softly shows that she is a little conscientious that it is insensitive to degrade the character of a dead man.

What does it mean to keep him in "view"? Keep an eye on him or to inform him?

This is said so casually by Sergeant Cuff. He does not say it as if he is talking about a family member that Franklin lost. Being insensitive makes him seem better at his job as a detective.

Since this is in a format of a diary it is weird and unusual that she would not share everything she has been told in her personal diary. Since she is very cautious of what she says, this leads to the conclusion that this is likely not straight from her personal diary.

The fact that she wishes her text could have been shorter shows that she is not as devoted to finding the moonstone as others who write a large amount. She is treating the narrative like an inconvienence.

The story of the moonstone and who Rachel will marry are occurring in parallel to each other. They are not explicitly entertwined at the moment, only in the characters that both stories share. I wonder if we could use NLP methods to pick up on two different plots occuring in one novel

Up until now, I don't believe we have learned of Rachel's age. The issue of guardian makes it sound like she is very young. However, put in context it could be that even young adult women need a guardian.

It is suprising that he did not write a narrative sooner, considering that he was invested in finding the moonstone from the beginning.

Buff is note saying Sir John is without weakness, but all of his weaknesses are the usual kind or even pleasant. This sets the scene to justify the lack of instructions in his will as not having ulterior motives.

This shows that Mr. Franklin is now, presumably independently, looking for the moonstone.

While Betteredge was a Christian he said so directly. Miss Clack seems to integrate Christianity into her casual thoughts and activities. This leads one to believe she is more committed to Christianity as a lifestyle.

Right from the start we are urged to sympathize and empathize with the reader because she is thanking her late parents. By asking for our sympathy we are more likely to believe the rest of the her narrative.

Sergeant Cuff has previously said that roses are the opposite of what he does, catch criminals. Sergeant Cuff sees roses as the embodiment of innocence and sees roses as a victim of mishandling. If Betteredge could grow roses he would wipe away his naivety and mean he is less hostile to Sergeant Cuff.

He recognizes his views of women don't work in the real world, but does not indicate that he wants to change. He is pretty stubborn.

This shows that the Sergeant was right when he predicted a change in weather. The fact that he was right about the weather foreshadows that he will be right about the moonstone.

This is the third time that the issue of gravel was brought up by the Sergeant. This is a metaphor for something, but I dont know what.

The capitalization of this and the italicization of only "his" shows the uniqueness of Sergeant Cuff. This also makes it look like two different words, this and his.

Sergent Cuff has already shown that he will mind the psychology of the servants by suspecting that they will hide their dresses if he searches their rooms. This means he is also aware of the psychological tricks he needs to play to search the Lady's room. It is likely that his main object is to search the Lady's room.

There is a strong effort by Sergeant Cuff to make a distinction between stolen and lost. These are two distinctly different ideas and cannot be interchanged. It is not clear yet why this distinction is so important.

Although Sergeant Cuff is revered by all of England, he is described as sickly and even scary. This juxtaposition of looking villanous, but also being a savior family makes Cuff have a mystery around him.

This is an abrupt break in the story, indicating that the pony is less benign than it looks. The pony's harness fitting together and understanding each other is a metaphor for the family understanding each other.

This must be because of the moonstones magical powers. Her reaction could have something to do with why she was given the moonstone in the first place.

This is the first time we understand that stature of the narrator in the family.

The importance that the narrator puts on this "defect" means that this could be a very important reason why Rachel was given the moonstone. Since this "defect" seperates her from all the other women this would be a logical reason why she was chosen.

This is described as sweet as if you could drink it, but it is also described as an ink, something you would not drink. This description and the mystery behind the ink indicates that this bottle is magical or mystical.

This looks to be the pain problem facing the characters in the plot.

I wonder if we could use NLP methods to track the change in point of view through the story and what this could tell us about the plot.

Is the plate-basket the moonstone or is it something else monetarily valueable?

The "It" must be the Moonstone

It is interesting that the Diamond is still capitalized, but no longer called The Moonstone.

Talking about the Indian moonstone as a family matter demonstrates the conflict between colonialists and the colonized that is likely to continue throughout the novel.

It is not clear why Herncastle is so afraid of the narrator. It is made out to seem that Herncastle did cause plunder and the narrator could reveal that, but the italicization of the word "me" indicates that there is a deeper, more significant reason why Herncastle is afraid of the narrator.

This seems like a coincidence that the narrator and Herncastle were sent with the same purpose at the same time. This coincidence could be a foreshadowing that there will be plunder and confusion following their conquest or that this is a turning point in their relationship.