I thought this was an interesting change in wording here. It almost seems like Mr Henry’s look at his wife was a good example of showing and not telling, but then she changed it to only represent his anxieties. It makes me wonder if she chose to word it this way as to not give attempt to give you an impression of what Mr Henry was thinking or feeling, or to not assume something she didn’t know about the situation… She felt mostly safe with the Henry family so maybe she decided ultimately that she didn’t want to reveal too much about them? To me the original line told me a little bit more about Mr Henry, and how it was known that he was afraid of the consequences of his wife speaking out, whereas the inclusion of that line actually cues the reader on how Craft was aware of his anxieties in the first place. It almost feels like Craft was intentionally trying to conceal something w it h this change.

Despite being a pretty cool tool that allows you to see how certain terms and names have trended over the years, Google Ngram viewer absolutely has it's limitations, and things that it can't show you. While the graph shows the percentage that the term shows up in it's book database, it doesn't give any specific details. You can't see the cause for upwards and downwards trends, not can you see what books these terms appear in. You don't get much context for anything from Ngram viewer, only the statistics on how often that term appeared in literature in any specific year. It shows how things might trend together, but doesn't explain why they do- however, it's a good starting point for anyone curious about how the terms associate with each other. It's really difficult for me to sit here and say I believe the ngram viewer has a bias- the closest thing I can think of to a bias it may have is that it only looks through books stored in the Google database, which is bound to exclude some works of literature. In order to overcome this sort of bias, I would think you would have to have a database tool that maybe cross references different book databases (google database and other book databases.. I am not a coder or very good with anything technical so this part is a little tricky for me to answer.) To me it seems google gives very straight forward statistics, but does not give context to those statistics, so it leaves most of the research up to the user. It gets you in the right direction of thinking of how things associate with each other, but it's more of a skeleton for making these associations without offering any actual context for the statistics.

I was curious how these three creative visionaries (Blake, Shelley, and Cruikshank) correlated with each other, and I thought that there was some interesting correlations happening here. Typically Shelley tends to follow Blake's upward trend, although Shelley's name appears only about half as much as Blake's. Did his death prevent him from doing work that would have gotten him the recognition that Blake got? I also thought it was interesting that 1935 Shelley actually trended a good deal down while the use of Blake's name rocketed to it's absolute highest point. This is also the only period on the map where there is any significant correlation between Blake and Cruikshank trending, which makes me wonder what was happening during this time that caused such a dramatic increase in material covering both artists, and why it was during this time that Shelley's name took a noticeable downward dip. Overall I think this tool is useful in studying the trends between works of literature because it provides a broader context for those pieces and it shows you how things functioned along with something else. Upwards and downward trends reflect what society thought was important during that time (or for better words, the culture of that time.)

Post #1: ngram viewer.

This online tool lets you type in words/phrases and see how many times they appear in various literature over the years. This allows you to see how things were trending compared to other things and may point to certain trends and associations between texts. The ngram viewer lets you type in multiple key phrases and choose the span of years in which you want statistics from. Double clicking on specific liens will focus only on those lines. You can also use "wildcards" in your search, using an asterisk to display the top ten substitutions for your phrase. You can also use an inflection search to view various grammatical categories, perform a case sensitive search, search between verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and other parts of speech. Other handy things this tool can do is search for specific words at the start and end of sentences and look at words used in conjunction with each other, such as "gamey" when looking up "meat". This tool is incredible in looking at how different things have trended over the years, what trends rose/fell around the same time, and makes it easy to look at how other texts reference each other. This helps us see how literature evolves and encourages us to think of what else was happening in the world during that time so we can gain a more significant understanding of the literature.