Literary notes about GoT (AI summary)
The word "got" serves as a remarkably versatile element in literature, functioning not only to convey possession but also to mark changes in condition, movement, or even the completion of an action. In some instances, it replaces the verb "have," suggesting ownership or accumulation, as seen when characters “have got” something essential ([1], [2]). In other contexts, "got" forms part of phrasal verbs that indicate movement or change—“got up” to signal the start of an action ([3], [4]), or “got in” to depict entering a space ([5], [6]). At times, it emphasizes inevitability or necessity, as in “if it’s got to be done” ([7]), while in other examples it colors dialogue with an informal, conversational tone that adds to character development ([8], [9]). This flexibility makes "got" a subtle yet powerful tool authors use to mirror everyday speech and to punctuate shifts in mood or circumstance throughout their narratives ([10], [11], [12]).
- Luckily I had got valuable effects, so this second consideration did not trouble me much.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - “They aren't nice, at all,” she choked, “and they'd been black if it hadn't been for the red carpet for the church; but they're all I've got.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - As the hall door shut, Campbell started nervously, and having got up from the chair, went over to the chimney-piece.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - He got up and looked out into the street.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Then he got into the nest, reared the stave in it as a mast, and hung up his shirt for a sail.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie - When I got to Casterbridge Barracks, they said, 'The Eleventh Dragoon-Guards be gone away, and new troops have come.'
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - “Well, if it’s got to be done, let’s get at it.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain - What should you be out of spirits for? You haven't got anything on your mind, you know."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - And from Eva or Babe, "I've got silk stockings, Jo."
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - When it has got so high, it cannot well go higher.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - In a week Jurgis got over his sense of helplessness and bewilderment in the rail mill.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott