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...following examples are among the clearest parallels between "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" by Kaavya Viswanathan '08 and two novels by Megan McCafferty, "Sloppy Firsts" and "Second Helpings." Italics appeared in the originals...
...recently-published novel by Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," contains several passages that are strikingly similar to two books by Megan F. McCafferty—the 2001 novel "Sloppy Firsts" and the 2003 novel "Second Helpings...
...point, "Opal Mehta" contains a 14-word passage that appears verbatim in McCafferty’s book "Sloppy Firsts...
...Viswanathan had a chance to debunk the Harvard myth for good. Instead, she perpetuates it. Given the market power with which DreamWorks seems to have endowed her, that is truly unfortunate. The overachieving girls and boys who flock to theaters to watch “Opal Mehta: The Movie” might learn that there is more to life than can be contained in a resume, but they’ll still leave the theaters convinced that an easy pill called Harvard exists. Finally, they’ll face a Catch-22: play into the system in order...
...Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life