Lisa Jablonsky

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Consider the importance of pronouns to the effect of Charlotte Brontë’s very famous line from Jane Eyre: “Reader, I married him.” The computer notices this “him,” and how often we hear about him, and how close he is in linguistic proximity to the all-important narratorial “I.” It notices when “I” and “him” appear almost side by side in more and more sentences, with less and less description in between. Of course, that is just what the reader is watching too. Isn’t the entire point of so many stories to get that “I” and that “him” closely aligned, separated only by an all-important verb like ...more
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