Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, follows the life of a sixteen year-old girl, Scarlett O’Hara beginning in the year 1861, who lives on Tara, a plantation in Georgia south of Atlanta. Her father, Gerald O’Hara, an Irish immigrant, won the plantation in an all-night poker game. Scarlett is in love with the handsome and chivalrous Ashley Wilkes, who is from the Twelve Oaks Plantation near Tara. Ashley, who believes that he and Scarlett are too different from one another, proposes to his cousin Melanie Wilkes at her family’s barbeque. Scarlett, outraged, accepts the proposal of Charles Hamilton, Melanie’s brother, hoping to hurt Ashley. In 1861, The Civil War begins as President Lincoln calls for troops. Charles, Scarlett’s new husband after two months, volunteers for the Confederate Army and dies of the measles at the onset of training. After Charles’s death, Scarlett learns that she is pregnant with his son, later to be named Wade. Scarlett then decides that she will move to Atlanta and stay with Melanie and Melanie’s Aunt Pitypat. It is there that she is reintroduced to Rhett Butler, a scandalous adventurer, whom she had previously met at the Wilkes’s barbeque. Rhett convinces her to disregard the restrictive social requirements for mourning southern widows. While in Atlanta, Scarlett begins seeing more of Rhett as the war continues and the Union forces begin to take hold. The battle of Gettysburg rages on and Melanie’s husband, Ashley, is captured and sent to a Yankee prison. As the Union forces begin to take over Atlanta, Scarlett is desperately longing to move back to Tara, but she has promised Ashley that she will take care of Melanie, who is pregnant. Melanie gives birth to a son, Beau, the ... ... middle of paper ... ...yed how it showed the symbolism of Scarlett representing the New and the Old South. Scarlett went from being in love with Ashley, who symbolized the lost world of chivalry and manners, to being in love with Rhett, who is dangerous and symbolizes the old and new. Like mentioned above, Gone With the Wind showed a bias toward the South that many other historical novels about the Civil War do not. It made the Southern Confederates look defenseless and the Northern Yankees coming into the South destroying everything. Gone With the Wind definitely made me feel like I was along Scarlet’s side through the whole war and the hardships that she faced. I learned the struggles that the inhabitants had to overcome during this horrific time in history. In reading this I finally got a different perspective than one would usually read about. Gone With the Wind was incredible!
The book The River Between Us by Richard Peck was interesting, it talks and describes the different events that happened to Tilley the main character. The movie Gone With the Wind was easier to understand because it showed the different characters. Just as the book, the movie Gone With the Wind also describes the different events that happened in the life of Scarlett, the main character. Even though the book and the movie are different because they describe the life of two different women, they are similar because their lives were effected by the Civil War.
The first scene takes place at Antietam Creek, Maryland Sept. 17, 1862 at The Battle of Tatum. The Union marches on foot lead by Shaw, only to be bombarded with cannon shots and gunfire. After the battle he was taken to a hospital where he heard Lincoln would be issuing an emancipation proclamation to free the slaves. At a house party afterwards, Robert sees Gov. Andrew and meets Fredrick Douglas who tells him there is to be an all black regiment of which he would like Robert to be colonel. He asks his friend Kevin to assist him in leading this group. On November 27, 1862, black volunteer soldiers are brought to Readville Camp in Massachusetts. There we meet the main characters of the 54th Mass. Regiment. Rawlins is the future Sergeant Major and is a father figure to the group. Trip seems to have an angry personality who takes his frustration out on others. Thomas, a childhood friend of Shaw’s, is well educated and has not been exposed to harsh reality of the slavery scene.
William Faulkner's story brought us back in time-in a southern town-where Emily is presented to us as a scattered, lost and at the end found her stacked in past along with the people around her. Emily represents a place and a culture for the lost world undated to the values of modern civilization, and with her death life begins to take its course, and past is forgotten making room for a new life.
I feel like the novel gave me a good, accurate insight of what it would have been like to be a fly on the wall in those secret meetings. The novel captures a good picture of what it may have been like to be a member of royalty or a simple commoner trying to make a change. Most of the political figures/groups in the novel were given distinct personality traits that made the reader aware of how important status and power were to those who lived in the 1700s. I also enjoyed characters like Benjamin Franklin and Sam Adams- to me, they were portrayed very accurately and both of their characters possessed most of the same qualities that they had in real-life. In the novel, for example, Franklin is (accurately) represented as a creator, a womanizer, and- most importantly- a
Gone with the Wind is a novel that is set during the civil war. During the second part, the protagonist Scarlett reads a letter that was sent by a confederate soldier named Ashley. The letter talks about his opinion on the war and the reason he fights. Ashley joined the war with the hopes of fighting for States’ Rights and preserving the old ways. However, once the fighting started he realized that the old ways are not going to come back, “And I belong in those old times. I do not belong in this mad present of killing and I fear I will not fit into any future, try though I may.” He is not happy about fighting in the war, and he does not have confidence
The book is significant in the sense that it gives even the current generation the knowledge of slavery, how it happened and the reason for slavery. It also shows us that whites and blacks are equal regardless of the skin colour. The point of equality is supported by the scene where Nat’s plans about freedom do not work but we understand that he had a lot of intelligence to plan that rebellion. This proves to us that blacks have equal intelligence as the whites since everyone being equal. The author tries to take us back to the ages of slavery and make us suffer with the slaves so as to feel how it was really like. The author succeeds in making us feel the pain and he succeeds in making us get that clear picture of what happened.
As implied by the title, kites play a major role in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. They appear numerous times within the text and prove to be surprisingly versatile in their literary function. They provide common ground for characters whose interests do not normally intersect. They are also present as a very powerful symbol, which adds an extra dimension to this already literary rich novel. Reversing the roles transcending generations, it shows itself to be a multifaceted medium.
In Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s tense drama, “Inherit the Wind”, three strong characters express powerful opinions: Bertrum Cates , Henry Drummond, and Mathew Harrison Brady. First, Bert Cates, the defendant, is charged with teaching “Darwinism” to his sophomore class . Second, Henry Drummond, the defense attorney for Cates, displays his beliefs of the right to think. third, Mathew Harrison Brady, the “big-shot” prosecuting attorney, illustrates his bigotry of creationism. To conclude, these three essential characters are fighting for their personal beliefs.
The main theme of Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is taking a
Focusing on the women and how they have to adapt without the men by their sides and take on the roles of the plantation. There is a Confederate monument in Jackson, Mississippi right in front of the capitol. It is dedicated to all the women who kept the plantations running during the Civil War. Plantations were self-sufficient during this time because the British withdrew their goods and trade agreement. The Confederates lost the war, meaning that a lot of the men did not return home. This meant that the women were stuck with running the plantations. Balancing everything out and keeping things in check is what they had to excel in, just like Ellen did for the Fairchild family. The events in the book take place after World War I, which is when things started changing in the Delta. Everything was changing from their daily activities to their ways of socializing. The Fairchild family also lost men to the war and Uncle George had sustained injuries from
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The end of the American Civil War also signified the end of the Old South's era of greatness. The south is depicted in many stories of Faulkner as a region where "the reality and myth are difficult to separate"(Unger 54). Many southern people refused to accept that their conditions had changed, even though they had bitterly realized that the old days were gone. They kept and cherished the precious memories, and in a fatal and pathetic attempt to maintain the glory of the South people tend to cling to old values, customs, and the faded, but glorified representatives of the past. Miss Emily was one of those selected representatives. The people in the southern small-town, where the story takes place, put her on a throne instead of throwing her in jail where she actually belonged. The folks in town, unconsciously manipulated by their strong nostalgia, became the accomplices of the obscene and insane Miss Emily.
Margaret Mitchell's romantic epic, Gone With the Wind, owes its remarkable popularity to the climate of sudden self-destruction and dreariness the Depression created. The Old South's grandeur, coupled with its Civil War-era decadence, provided much-needed escapism for readers, as well as paralleling the U.S.'s own plight in the 20s and 30s. In addition, Scarlett O'Hara's feminist role, her devotion to her land, and her indomitable optimism lent hope to those who had lost faith in the American Dream.
The Kite Runner focuses on the relationship between two Afghan boys Amir and Hassan. Amir is a Pashtun and Sunni Muslim, while Hassan is a Hazara and a Shi’a. Despite their ethnic and religious differences, Amir and Hassan grow to be friends, although Amir is troubled by Hassan, and his relationship with his companion, one year his junior, is complex. Amir and Hassan seem to have a "best friend" type relationship. The two boys, Hassan and Amir, are main characters in the book titled, The Kite Runner. The two boys have a relationship that is significantly different compared to most. There are many different facets that distinguish the relationship the boys possess. The boys do write their names in a pomegranate tree as the "sultans of Kabul" (Kite Runner 27) but, their friendship is not strong and it is one sided. Hassan has love for Amir. He loves him like a brother. Hassan is exceedingly loyal to Amir. The relationship between the two boys is emotionally wearing and rather gloomy for the most part. The main reason for their complicated relationship is the fact that Amir is Pashtun, and Hassan is Hazara. The Afghan society places Hassan lower than Amir. Hassan is Amir's servant. The placement of Hassan in the Afghan society disenables Amir from becoming Hassan's true friend. Amir sees Hassan as lower than human. Amir ruins the chance for friendship between himself and Hassan because he is jealous of Hassan, he thinks of Hassan as a lower human, and because Amir possesses such extreme guilt for what he has done to Hassan. Amir is an unforgivable person overall.
An individual is shaped and molded by how they are treated by those that surround them. Most people value the opinions of those they care about and want to act in accord. Consequently, the choices people make are greatly influenced by the people in their lives. Sometimes, someone will become close with people who are different from each other. Such is the case in Good Will Hunting. Will Hunting (Matt Damon) struggles between the people that created him and the people that discovered him.