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  • devonin
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    • Apr 2004
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    Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

    Saw this awesome article at http://tinyurl.com/n7f6jjb that ran all three series through statistical analysis for word use, some pretty interesting stuff.

    The list of the top 10 most used complete sentences in each series actually goes a long way to show you what is wrong with Twilight.

    Here's the top 10 for Hunger Games:

    1. "My name is Katniss Everdeen."
    2. "I don't know."
    3. "I shake my head."
    4. "I am seventeen years old."
    5. "My home is District 12."
    6. "Now I wish I had."
    7. "I swallowed hard."
    8. "He hesitates."
    9. "I'm not really surprised."
    10. "Something is wrong."

    And for Twilight

    1. "I sighed."
    2. "He sighed."
    3. "I shrugged."
    4. "I frowned."
    5. "He chuckled."
    6. "I laughed."
    7. "He shrugged."
    8. "I flinched."
    9. "I took a deep breath."
    10. "He didn't answer."

    Of course, the most used complete sentence in Harry Potter is "Nothing happened." so who are we to judge?
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    • Izzy
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      • Jan 2003
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      #2
      Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

      I like how the article refers to anyone watching these movies as preteens. Clearly nobody but immature preteens would watch this crap. That subtle insult is pretty funny.

      I found the hunger games movie to be a pretty subpar production. The book is likely well written, but I've never read it. I'll probably see the 2nd one anyway because I already saw the first.
      Last edited by Izzy; 11-21-2013, 08:38 AM.

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        • awein999
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          • Oct 2007
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          Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

          Omg hahahahaha, you weren't kidding. gg Harry Potter
          Originally posted by Staiain
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            • Izzy
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              • Jan 2003
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              Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

              I'd love to see them run it again but only show sentences with 5 words or more.

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                • devonin
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                  • Apr 2004
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                  Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                  Originally posted by Izzy
                  I like how the article refers to anyone watching these movies as preteens. Clearly nobody but immature preteens would watch this crap. That subtle insult is pretty funny.
                  Strawman much?

                  This weekend, millions of preteens will flock to theaters to take in the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, just as millions of preteens flocked to each of the five Twilight movies.
                  They will. That statement is completely true. Just because people besides preteens will also go see the movies doesn't for a moment mean that it is untrue that millions of preteens will be flocking to the theatres.

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                    • devonin
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                      • Apr 2004
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                      Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                      Originally posted by Izzy
                      I'd love to see them run it again but only show sentences with 5 words or more.
                      So we'll still have

                      "My name is Katniss Everdeen." up against "I took a deep breath."

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                        • Arntonach
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                          • Mar 2012
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                          #7
                          Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                          For a romance novel series, I was kinda expecting the Twilight book to have more flowery wordage, but oh well.

                          I don't think this gauges how good or bad the writers are, it just seems to show their writing style instead.
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                            • GuidoHunter
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                              • Oct 2003
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                              Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                              Unfortunately, when writing Young Adult novels these days, you have to dumb down your vocabulary and syntax mightily. You can still have a good story in there (I recently finished and quite enjoyed Catching Fire), but it's very clear who the target audience is.

                              --Guido

                              Originally posted by Grandiagod
                              Originally posted by Grandiagod
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                              Sentences I thought I never would have to type.

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                                • devonin
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                                  • Apr 2004
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                                  Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                  I just feel like we should, as a culture, be a little concerned about the fact that a teen novel marketed at teens, about a teen girl has "I flinched." as one of the most common sentences in the series.

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                                    • Arntonach
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                                      • Mar 2012
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                                      Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                      It's a romance novel about vampires, of course they'll be lots of flinching. The fact that it's being marketed towards teens is actually the creepy part.
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                                        • Izzy
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                                          Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                          Originally posted by devonin
                                          Strawman much?

                                          They will. That statement is completely true. Just because people besides preteens will also go see the movies doesn't for a moment mean that it is untrue that millions of preteens will be flocking to the theatres.
                                          I think you are confusing what I said as my own opinion. I am saying that the way he wrote it implies that he thinks only preteens would see these movies.

                                          That just isn't how you write statistics like that if you aren't implying something. If you are trying to say that 1000's people did something and 100's of them happened to be mexican you wouldn't say that hundreds of mexicans did whatever while excluding the fact that 1000's of others also did it. You are bringing attention to it on purpose.

                                          The point is that he should have said "millions of people" if he didn't want to imply that the "vast" majority or only people that see it are preteens.

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                                            • devonin
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                                              Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                              I'd suggest that the majority ARE preteens or young teens.

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                                                • choof
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                                                  Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                                  if it was the "textual word analysis of twilight," we could nickname it "The TWAT"

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                                                    • L.B.D.D
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                                                      • Aug 2013
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                                                      Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                                      After reading that article..

                                                      I sighed.
                                                      I frowned.
                                                      I flinched.
                                                      I shrugged.

                                                      And I took a deep breath.

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                                                        • j-rodd123
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                                                          • Oct 2006
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                                                          #15
                                                          Re: Textual Analysis of Twilight, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter

                                                          Originally posted by devonin
                                                          I just feel like we should, as a culture, be a little concerned about the fact that a teen novel marketed at teens, about a teen girl has "I flinched." as one of the most common sentences in the series.
                                                          if you would stop posting anytime now that'd be great

                                                          Originally posted by FictionJunction
                                                          wow

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