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Record W4231955715 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2012.0128

Gil Marsh (review)

2012· article· en· W4231955715 on OpenAlex
Karen Coats

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThemes in Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArt historyImmortalityFriendshipArtJealousyHistorySociologyLiteraturePsychology

Abstract

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Reviewed by: Gil Marsh Karen Coats Bauer, A. C. E. . Gil Marsh. Random House, 2012. [192p]. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-375-96933-1 $15.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-375-86933-4 $15.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-375-98311-5 $10.99 Reviewed from galleys Ad Gr. 7-10. Smart, athletic, and well liked, Gil works hard to deserve his good reputation. After initial jealousy, he forms a deep friendship with an equally talented and good-natured newcomer, Enko. Soon Enko is diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia that takes his life; before he dies, he gives Gil a garnet ring, a family heirloom made by a supposedly immortal blacksmith in the countryside north of Quebec. A griefstricken Gil is wounded further by learning that Enko will be buried at home in Quebec and that Gil's parents won't be taking him to visit his friend's grave for a final goodbye. Gil sets off alone for Quebec on his own on a quest to find the grave and the maker of the ring, hoping that perhaps the man's immortality is real, and that he will have the secret to bringing Enko back. As a contemporary treatment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, this has the right bones, but as a piece of young adult literature, the bones are disappointingly bare. Gil and Enko's fierce closeness develops rapidly and the book tells more than shows the relationship's significance. Gil's open talk of the deep love he bears his friend is couched in terms that more often signal a love affair in contemporary literature, so readers may misunderstand the boys' relationship as one based on homosexual feelings rather than the deeply homosocial sensibilities of the original epic. There's still reward in following his journey, however, even if it ends in closure rather than success. Aidan Chambers' classic Dance on My Grave (BCCB 8/83) is a more nuanced exploration of the same topic, but reluctant readers will find the quick pacing and well-defined themes here accessible, and the book provides some clear curricular possibility. Copyright © 2012 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.561
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.004
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.199 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it