Huckleberry Wordle
I had so much fun with the SOTU word clouds yesterday that I decided to make my own at Wordle. Given the recent controversy over Huckleberry Finn, I decided it would be a worthy candidate for the word cloud treatment. I cut and pasted the text of the entire novel into Wordle and voilà:
The news stories about the new “controversy free” edition of the book frequently noted that “the word” was used 219 times in the novel. I was surprised to see that I had to look carefully to find “the word” in the word cloud. It is there, but appears to be used about as frequently as the “King” and “duke”. I also would have thought that “river” would be featured more prominently.
January 27, 2011 9:42 am 2 Comments
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By Pete, January 27, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
How strange that, apparently, the most common word was “got.”
By Aaron, January 27, 2011 @ 2:34 pm
The new book by David Hoopes, Trials of Huckleberry Finn uses the same tone and language of Mark Twain. Not that we need any more controversy, it’s just a good read.