Maybe Leila has learnt some cruel facts from that fat man which she couldn’t deny, but it seemed that she chose to face the facts bravely and positively, enjoy the present and cherish every beautiful things.

Mansfield seems to really like to show character’s mood change through the rise and fall of melody. There are a few similar techniques she used in the novel “Miss Brill”. Maybe we can depict the ups and downs of the plots by analyzing the change of tune in the novel through computational analyze.

Repeated comments on floor and recent balls are just a routine opening greeting. Gentlemen’s indifference showed an obvious with Leila’s careful and thrilling explanations.

People feel most lonely not in the occasion when they’re in eternal loneliness but in the occasion when they become alone again after the revelry. This ball might have a strong effect on Leila’s innocent heart.

How innocent this girl was! And it seemed to portend that there would be some unhappy things happening towards Leila with these seemingly “lovely” girls.

Through this detailed description, a young, shy but curious girl came into readers’ sight. There’re also many other delicate inward descriptions in Mansfield’s novel. I really like this kind of writing style which deeply portrayed vivid characters like carving statues.

She was so disappointed. She dressed up but was neglected instead of being noticed. And after comforting herself by the music and the feeling as an actress, she became positive and delighted again. Then she put her hope on the young boy and girl, but just received sneer. The continuous blows made Miss Brill turn out to lose control of her mood.

Smile occurred more often in the little girl’s face after she came to her grandpa’s home. Nothing can heal the wounds better than affection for a little poor girl.

This sentence reminded me of what was mentioned in the first paragraph of the passage - “it was a beautiful night, mild, starry”. Maybe in the little girl’s eyes, Picton boat was just like a fable boat on which she would have a fantastic voyage to a fairy tale world.

The description of a big fish flicking in at the window is really picturesque, painting a dramatic picture of a beautiful night, which seems magic to give readers peace of mind.

This sentence might have three inferences:

1. The invader loses his trophies forever.

2. The Indians will protect the Moonstone with impregnable belief.

3. The British will remember the story of Moonstone and never plunder again.

At the end of this marvelous detective novel, we know who are the Murderers, but how strange, the blame towards murderer is completely overwhelmed by the sympathy and respect towards guardians. The Moonstone returned to the place where its story begin, who can bear to let it wander again? I really love this ending. I really love this novel!

If Franklin didn’t fail to keep the appointment, would he discovered that last night? Would he save Godfrey’s life and catch the three Indians? But maybe all this need Sergeant Cuff’s help whereas he came next morning. So maybe it’s destined that the Moonstone will return to where it came.

“I have loved him from the first to last” As the annotation I made above, Rosanna and Betteredge were the best representation of friendship, Rachel and Franklin we’re undoubtedly the embodiment of love. For this couple, the most important thing wasn’t find who was the theif, but to prove Franklin wasn’t!

It's might be lucky for Franklin to miss the chat with Godfrey. And it’s very interesting that there had been no one suspecting Godfrey so far. Rosanna, Rachel, Franklin were all suspected. Is this the writing style of Collins? Or is this the writing style of all the detective novels?

Maybe we can make a statistic through computational text analysis, and find whether the criminal is the person under minimum suspection.

The poor Rosanna appeared just for assisting Franklin’s search, how can it be horrible? In fact, it’s really Rosanna who helped Franklin to see the truth, and finally cleared the air with Rachel indirectly. Her love was great and worthy.

The narrative of Mr.Bruff is more objective than Miss Clack’s. And he is the most suitable person to describe this part, to explain the crucial clues like will and mortgage term. Reading through his clear narrative of two parts, if we connect these two part daringly, we can find that:

Godfrey - “needed a large sum of money; and he needed it by a given time.” - DEBTS

Moonstone - “will be redeemed in a given time”

Now it seems that we have a man who has the motive, opportunity and ability to steal the Moonstone!

The Moonstone has been pledged. Why did the thief do this? He need money urgently or he just wanted to confuse the Indians?

I really admire Rachel’s courage and wisdom she had showed till now. Regardless what other people think, just insist on what she deems is right. I really want to become such kind of person, because I think this quality is really crucial for scholars.

The ending of Miss Clack’s narrative is really Clack with irony which goes through the whole narrative. Clack’s narrative plays an important role on helping us know Godfrey’s true colors which will be thoroughly exposed in next narrative.

A striking contrast between “struggling institution” and “ a party of worldling” which is really ironic. Love won’t take away one’s responsibility. I doubt whether Godfrey’s passion for charity industry was pretended.

Here mentioned “the debts” again. Miss Rachel’s possible motive is debts, Franklin’s also debts. These remind me of what Sergeant had said “It is well within my experience, that young ladies of rank and position do occasionally have private debts which they dare not acknowledge to their nearest relatives and friends.” The motive of the thief probably is DEBTS!

A poor woman had tried her best to comfort herself. I think she may long for integrating into a big family, long for being loved by people around her, and no longer need to worry about livelihood. But she cannot, so she protected herself through an amusing and pitiful way.

While rereading this part, how can Godfrey treat Miss Rachel with seeming affection as usual? I feel a chill when I think of he almost took Rachel to his wife successfully. Mr. Bruff saved Rachel and Franklin.

She knew who was innocent, which means she also knew who was guilty. Associated with her abnormal attitude towards Franklin, is Franklin the person she was always protecting? But why did Franklin act so positively to find the thief if it’s just himself?

Besides, maybe we can use python to find sentence like this which is all composed of capital letters. These sentences will probably be the highlights in a passage. It must be very interesting!

I think there’ nothing improper in Penelop’s message. Why did Miss Clack consider her as an impertinent castaway? I guess maybe there’s a strong subjective color in Clack’s narrative because of the combination of her inferior feeling of identity and superior feeling of Christian. We need to filter the subjective to find the truth through her narrative.

A sad gap, it’s a foreshadowing. While rereading this part, I can’t help imaging that will everything be different if Rachel or Rosanna tells Franklin what she saw. Maybe there will be no death and years of misunderstanding and pain.

Sometimes people fear the person who searches for the truth. People resist to draw disappointing conclusions, even they’re the only truth. I’m not sure whether the Sergeant’s inference is right, but his dedication and goodwill are honorable and lovely.

There are pride, dignity as well as pain in Rachel’s words towards her mother. I believe Rachel didn’t lie to her mother, because her kindness and pride wouldn’t allow herself to do that. I wonder what indeed made Rachel said “make my mother pity me”, she must knew something that she cannot say.

I can feel the warm friendship between Rosanna and old Betteredge with full kindness and mutual compassion. It seems to be the only pure and purposeless friendship in this detective novel.

Rachel was protecting someone. Her rejection made everyone’s clothes avoid of search. The one might be herself, but most probably some one else she cared.

One of the major obstacles to find the truth is the secrets that people conceal deliberately because of goodwill or malice. Mr. Cuff, as an experienced sergeant, must have seen so many similar situation, so he feel Betteredge ‘s concealed goodwill.

All the people inside the house became different because of the Moonstone. Is it what the Colonel wanted to see?

Maybe the previous conversation between him and Rachel made him realize Rachel’s abnormality. He had a presentiment that Rachel was leaving far away him and the only answer was concealed with the Diamond.

Here comes the second description of Franklin’s contradictory character. I think a changing character is interesting and normal for a person, a complicated and vivid person.

“For a wonder”, every abnormal thing in a detective novel may very likely be a crucial clue. As for text analysis, we can make list of such phrases or words to collect clues by computer. Maybe when this technology become mature, it can help police to find clues in real world!

A nice and interesting metaphor with the contrast between cat and tiger! I wonder how to identify such metaphor in the passage through Python when there’s no words like “like” and “as”.

While reading the front part of the sentence, I predicted Rachel will be angry, afraid or distrustful of the Indian traveller’s words. Rachel’s reflection was really beyond my expectations, which made me review the character Rachel and be fond of this adventurous and independent young girl.

I don’t know whether author was deliberate or not. These sentences seem a little ironic. Did Mr.Godfrey appear to others what he truely were?

When I first read this sentence, I thought the reason why Betteredge said this was Rosanna stoke the diamond and made the whole family far from peaceful. But reread this, I was suddenly enlightened. It’s may also because Betteredge cannot bear to face the poor girl’s death.

There’s little or no mention of the clairvoyant boy. It’s strange according to his uncanny ability. Is it author’s omissions?

The contradiction between class boundaries and goodness in humans was embodied in Betteredge. Comparied with his daughter, the character of Betteredge is solid and versatile through contradictions.

Of course not. It’s just the beginning of the dreamlike story of Moonstone.

Here comes a paragraph that introduces Franklin’s present character and the forming process of his character. Sometimes looks determined and decisive, sometimes looks helpless and dependent. Looking forward to exploring the action that dominated by this complex character.

The Colonel passed on a crucial message to the Indians through his WILL! It's really a special way. we can also find the evidence that the Indians received the message in the following narrative of Mr.Bruff. And also I wonder why the Colonel kept holding the Moonstone through his life, what's the benifit he could get from the Moonstone? It's confusing.

Great satisfaction of being the better one makes people ignore the heart of inferior fellow, will they be sorry or regret in the end?

These words remind me of San Mao, a famous Chinese modern writer. This miserable place for Rosanna is like the Sahar Desert for San Mao. They were destined to belong to that place where they finding who they truely are.

A striking use of metaphor. It’s just like the cracks are still there after the ceramic repair.

It’s really ironic. The companies robbing from thousand was enjoying their treasure whereas a poor girl robbing from one was jailed.

“What was the moral of this?” It is interesting to think of this question through the whole novel.

“the most elegant manners”, which indicated these three Indians were probably not just ordinary strolling conjuror.

This showed complaints from the celebrated and rich Mr. Blake towards native institutions, which might influence little Franklin.

Sometimes the wander of author’s heart tells us more than specific spots.

It's interesting to explain human behavior through Economy theory. In literary works, Bounded Rationality often leads to a tragic ending due to resources limitation, especially inner resources. Betteredge was not clear about what he truely loved.

Betteredge regarded ROBINSON CRUSOE as his friend in need. He was exactly that kind of people who found answers of life puzzle and directions of future roads from book. I really appreciate these kind of man.

How to teach computers to understand such extended meaning is worth studying. If they knew what those last words mean, would they escape from the misfortune?

Indian officers, they were the three priests in disguise. Their death indicated the start of another adventure of Moonstone which was filled with misfortune.

Collins always told readers why he wrote or not wrote some parts at the right time, right place. This is his distinct writing feature which makes his works different from others'. This can be a clue to match authors with their works for computational analysis!

"bright, straightforward look in his eyes", a common discription of eyes which represents pure hearts and soul. So we can depict the characters through these descriptive words of features.

Quotations tend to embody the strongest power in a part, which resonates between author and readers. Quotations may also imply the central theme in a more objective angle.

Generally speaking, we can find some key information in the Prologue, especially background information, such as source, object, period, site, etc. And there're usually identification entities near these key information. For example, we can use "extracted" to identify source. So when literary analysis focuses on background information, analyzing Prologue might be the first and fastest choice!

The answer is in the combination of author's experience and the prophecy "ROBINSON CRUSOES". (By the way, "ROBINSON CRUSOES" must be a BIG word on a word cloud.)

respect among private difference

Have "General Baird" been mentioned above? Hard to remember. If only there's a "Character Network Map".

A good identification for change and the stage division. So how about making a list of this kind of words? Make statistics of these words appearing in different novels to compare the extent of the ups and downs! It's an amazing way!

Superlatives may can help readers focus on special parts in the text. It usually signifies strong emotion or something amazing!