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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The first-person narrator of the novel, Adam Gordon, is an American poet in his early 20s participating in a prestigious fellowship in Madrid circa 2004. The stated goal of his fellowship is to write a long narrative poem highlighting literature's role in the Spanish Civil War.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, reported an approval rating of 33% based on 27 reviews, with an average of 5/10.The website's critical consensus reads, "IO has some big ideas but little idea of how to effectively convey them, leaving viewers with a sci-fi drama whose attractive packaging can't cover its enervating core."
The novel received positive reviews upon publication. [3] On Book Marks, from six critics: two "rave" and four "positive". [4] Sue Arnold writing for The Guardian called it "an extraordinary book" comparing the plot to Thomas Hardy's works. [5] The Denver Post criticized the book as "somewhat predictable" but was positive on the work overall. [6]
Leaving Time is a 2014 novel by American writer Jodi Picoult. It is the twenty-third novel written by the author. It is the twenty-third novel written by the author. The first edition was published on October 14, 2014, by Ballantine Books , an imprint of Random House .
Leaving (French: Partir) is a 2009 French film directed by Catherine Corsini, written by Corsini and Gaeelle Mace, and starring Sergi López, Kristin Scott Thomas and Yvan Attal. Plot [ edit ]
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Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges translated the complete novel into Spanish as Las palmeras salvajes (1940). The Wild Palms is quoted in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film, Breathless ("À bout de souffle"), when Patricia claims to prefer to take "grief rather than nothing"; the same quote is cited in the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Principal Rooney "consoles" Sloan while ...