52 Matching Annotations
  1. Aug 2019
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    1. soft wet substance

      That was clay! What is the meaning of get the clay when playing the game?

    2. , Maria laughed and laughed again till the tip of her nose nearly met the tip of her chin.

      I'm confusing about the implicit information about the tip of her nose nearly meeting the tip of her chin. It has been repeated a lot.

    3. Maria, remembering how confused the gentleman with the greyish moustache had made her, coloured with shame and vexation and disappointment.

      So, she is not truly don't want a man or ring.

    4. Everyone was so fond of Maria.

      A rare and tender sight in DUbliners .After reading some of Joyce's work, I'm afraid this beautiful character is going to take a huge turn.

    5. Maria had cut them herself.

      Maria is very good with a knife, and she is a very carefully women.

    6. Then she remembered what she had been waiting for.

      ! The end of a radical transformation! Polly and her mother are waiting for the marraige... They prepared every step of the way so that Mr Doran would have to accept the marriage!

    7. marriage.

      I feel complicated when reading about that. I don't think a girl should use her happiness of her life to pay for what she did young. Mrs, Mooney seems to put too much stock in a girl's reputation. Maybe that's has some things to do with her prior experience with Mr Mooney, I supposed.

    8. ballooned gently

      I like this metaphor. But there is no word "like". How can we detected this kind of word by python? By finding the children of curtains?

    9. She watched the pair and kept her own counsel.

      But she already had her counsel. She just didn't want to make the pair akward. Parants always do that.

    10. She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.

      She is not financially independent. She is weak, when facing father's authority, all she did is runing. She had a brief feminine awakening, but eventually she had to compromise.

    11. But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that.

      What an innocent motive dor running away!

    12. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

      Oh! Youth! The love of the little boy experienced waiting, hope, to the final despair, quirte real and wonderful!

    13. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

      The metaphor here is very intersting. We can wirte a function to find out all patterns like "like a XXX"

    14. Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side.

      In this paragragh, there is no word like "like", or "love". But we can confrim that I like Mangan. Maybe that's the beauty of literature.

    15. t I had always despised him a little.

      This article is about some of the mundane things you experience in your life, but It's amazing how artistic they can be in the author's writing.

    16. Everyone’s heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.

      Another contradiction.

    17. The adventures related in the literature of the Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape.

      There is always a contradiction in the author's character. That makes the character more vivid.

    18. incredulous

      Based on the character before the article, I don't believe either!

    19. and I knew that the old priest was lying still in his coffin as we had seen him, solemn and truculent in death, an idle chalice on his breast.

      The priest has his own judgment. He thinks the grail is sacred and inviolable. My dream proved that. In my dream, the priest is horriable because he the simoniac of his sin. However, Eilza and my aunt don't understand about that. The opinions which behind people's backs always express her true views.

    20. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

      It's very realistic, I think we must all had this kind of psychology activity. "fear" and "longed", the contrast between those two words is fanscinating.

    21. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse.

      Through the description of the psychological activities of the characters, We were brought into the atmosphere of the authorls conception.

    1. an ideal family, sir, an ideal family.

      If two words are very close, there must be something the aurthor wans to strengthen. In this sentence, the idea family is not so idea. We have learned that from former paragraghs.

    2. A man had either to put his whole heart and soul into it, or it went all to pieces before his eyes...

      But, a person's apprearance will always have a subtle influence on his life and business.Mr.Neave was in a very low mood.

    3. his life’s work was slipping away, dissolving, disappearing through Harold’s fine fingers, while Harold smiled...

      Through the before and after contrast, the relationship between the characters is so vividly displayed.

  3. Jul 2019
    1. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful very often—oh yes—but mournful somehow. Solemn. And now it would never be like that again—it had opened dazzling bright.

      There are many dark works but Leila was in light emotion. So, under this circumstances, the proportion of dark words is not so precise. How can we filter them?

    2. Perhaps her first real partner was the cab.

      She was nervous about the ball, she was the first time for the ball, imaging that she was dancing with the cab and practicing it.

    3. new Isabe

      This uncertainty magnifies William’s fear.

    4. What about fruit? William hovered before a stall just inside the station. What about a melon each?

      He was very nervous about the meeting. He spent liitle time with his children and his wife. And he wanted to be perform well.

    5. wearing a green satin dress, a black velvet cloak and a white hat with purple feathers,

      I think a one's dress always can reflect his or her personality. Maybe I can work a python to find out all one's wearing when they came out, and that's how you judge a person's character.

    6. you’ll be losing all your money again.”

      The child's personality is the opposite of the mother's. She is more reasonal.

    7. pinned up

      A word repeated many times, the author may be trying to render an atmosphere, or trying to strengthen something. Maybe we can write a small function to find out these repeating words and help us to analysis the emotion behind them.

    8. “I’ve forgotten too.”

      This novel is different from the other novels we had read in class. After we finished reading, it hard for me to tell a specific plot, but I was deeply moved by the sentiment of the article. The author renders the emotion to the reader with some seemingly random details.

    9. “Let them bu-bury father like that,” said Josephine, breaking down and crying into her new, queer-smelling mourning handkerchief.

      They were to young to accept that their father had died.

    10. They’ve made away with my stick, now!

      The article seeed intended to portray a stem and unreasonable father figure.

    11. “Nothing wrong, is there?” he asked carelessly, fingering his collar.

      Writer described a daily scene, but seems a little bit strange. What's the hidden meaning of "Nothing wrong is there"? What did he want to say? Besides, his movement was also strange, he fingered his collar. He seemed to be about to say something serious.

    12. as they passed by there was a strong whiff of eucalyptus. And now big spots of light gleamed in the mist.

      Mystical depict always keep us reading. Maybe we can write a function to figure out some mystical words to help us to write a fantastic fiction.

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    1. may be in your knowledge, but is not in mine. You have lost sight of it in England,

      Faith can last from generations to generations, but wealth can not. That's why the moonstone will finally return to the indians.

    2. It is needless to say, that Mr. Godfrey indignantly refused to listen to these monstrous terms. Mr. Luker thereupon, handed him back the Diamond, and wished him good night.

      Luker is a wise and astute man. He did a pretty good job.The good night wish madeGodfrey understand his situation and he had to accept this unequal bargain. Pretty interesting.

    3. that the laudanum had taken some effect on you, which had not been foreseen by the doctor, any more than by himself.

      The impact of the laudanum had token on the colonized were also can not be foreseen by the invader. Maybe the writer is trying to make a metaphtor .Godfrey looks decent, but inside he is dark and greedy, the indians looks ugly on the outside but has an honest and pure heart.

    4. In these facts lies the explanation of Mr. Godfrey’s honourable conduct, in paying the debts incurred for the lady and the villa–and (as you will presently see) of more besides.

      People who looks glamorous always greedy inside. Godfrey wants to be presentable in front of people because he don't want to expose his dark side.

    5. (1)

      Sergeant is very organized, very forceful. Lists of numbers can help you think, and enable you to see the personality of narrator.

    6. At that time, please to remember, not the ghost of an idea entered my head that you had stolen the Diamond.

      whoever stole it called the police..really funny. However, Franklin has no reason to keep the diamond, there must be some one behind manipulating everything!

    7. try for better things, that the days grew long and weary

      I like the details, these delicate and real emotions can strike a chord with us,which makes me feel real and never feel tried about reading.

    8. To lay down on the rocks, a stick, or any straight thing to guide my hand, exactly in the line of the beacon and the flagstaff. To take care, in doing this,

      The more important the clue, the deeper it goes. I feel we are getting close to the truth. Besides, she said "doing this without any person being present to overlook you" ,It's strange .

    9. I was also deprived, at the time, of the inestimable advantage of hearing the events related by the fervid eloquence of Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite.

      Clack's words are too subjective to believe .We can not judge a person whether he or she is innocent through whether he or she is good enthough. Anyway ,the gentler a man is ,the greaterthe conspiracy he tends to harbor .I still think Mr. Godfrey is suspicious .

    10. What did it mean? Taking the worldly point of view, it appeared to mean that Mr. Godfrey had been the victim of some incomprehensible error, committed by certain unknown men.

      Narratives can imfluence our's opinion imperceptibly. The victim in the eyes of others may not be the real victim .So, we'd better keep an eye out .

    11. . There must be some very serious motive at the bottom of it, and some justification of no ordinary kind to plead for them, in recovery of their caste, when they return to their own country.”

      The serious motive is guarding Diamond .The tension builds ,Diamond is about to be stolen ,and thereader is further immersed in the novel .

    12. I went down-stairs, feeling that this was rather a flat ending, after all our excitement about the Diamond earlier in the day.

      An intense beginning paried with a flat enging is never reassuring ...The curiosiity drives me keep reading...

    13. More words followed these, providing if my lady was dead, or if Miss Rachel was dead, at the time of the testator’s decease, for the Diamond being sent to Holland, in accordance with the sealed instructions originally deposited with it.

      Why Diamond must be given when Racel and the lady alive? Why Diamond must be given as a birthday gift ?Although the reasons are given below ,they are too superficial to convince me .I think Colonel was not intended to forgive sth . He was more ambitious and sophisticated as far as I can see ...

    14. ‘Kill me–and you will be no nearer to the Diamond than you are now; it is where you can’t get at it–in the guarded strong-room of a bank.’ He says instead, ‘Kill me–and the Diamond will be the Diamond no longer; its identity will be destroyed.’ What does that mean?”

      Two different approaches to the same thing do have different effects ...The identity of Diamond is important for the guardians of Diamond .So ,we can deduce that Colonel 's biggest enemies were not thiefs (their target is the value of Diamond) ,the biggest enemies were the guardians of Diamond (Indians). Thinking and deducing ,the charm of a detective story .

    15. The Moonstone will have its vengeance yet on you and yours!

      There's always a reason to believe in prophecies ,curses and so on..Mtthological statements amplify audiences' interests in further reading .It's a brilliant narrative technique.

    16. I address these lines–written in India–to my relatives in England.

      The article uses the flashback technique ,with the concrete detail, the article has portrayed a vivid picture .