#16 V+
The words “tube” and “tubes” occur 44 times in Project Hail Mary.
The word “tube” occurs 34 times and the word “tubes” 10 times.
30 of the occurrences are in Chapters 1 and 2.
In the Earth sections, the word “tube” is used 2 times (both times by the narrator) and the word “tubes” is never used.
In the Space sections, the word “tube” is used 32 times (once by Grace in direct speech, the rest by Grace as narrator) and the word “tubes” is used 10 times (once by Grace in direct speech, the rest by Grace as narrator).
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies across all sections and chapters of the book.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match “tube” or “tubes” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
Give me another tube!
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