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The word “question” occurs 234 times in Project Hail Mary and it’s mostly Rocky.
It occurs 11 times in Earth sections: the narrator (6 times), Abby (1 time), Grace in direct speech (2 times), Steve Hatch (1 time), and Stratt (1 time).
It occurs 223 times in Space sections: the narrator (13 times), Grace in direct speech (2 times), and of course Rocky (208 times).
Eight of every nine occurrence are Rocky.
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 “question” (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
So many questions
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