Реферат: Gone With The Wind By Mitchell Essay

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The novel being summarized is titled Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret

Mitchell. It was published in 1936, after it took her seven years to write, and

won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind was the only book Ms. Mitchell

wrote and is an American Classic. Gone with the Wind was a story of men and

women living in the south during the war between the states and of the south?s

transformation after the was. The novel began in about 1861 at Tara and Twelve

Oaks, two southern plantations in Georgia. We were given a glance of the

hospitality and generosity of plantation life. When the men went off to war, the

women moved to Atlanta. While in Atlanta, they worked as nurses as they awaited

the return of their men. Sherman?s troops marched in and burned Atlanta, so

the women were forced to leave. They returned to Tara, where we observed the

destruction and desolation of the land. After the war, the story shifted back

and forth between Atlanta and Tara. We experienced the struggles to save Tara,

rebuild Atlanta, and the effects of the carpetbaggers. The story continued until

about 1871 as the main characters began to regain the security and grace of the

days before the war. There were four main characters in the story. They were

Scarlett O?Hara, Ashley Wilkes, Melanie Hamilton-Wilkes, and Rhett Butler.

Scarlett, Ashley, and Melanie were raised together, and Rhett Butler was an

outsider who came from Charleston. Scarlett was the daughter of a wealthy Irish

plantation owner. She was not beautiful but she was spoiled. She was selfish and

scheming. She was also charming so men easily fell in love with her. Scarlett

was obsessively in love with Ashley Wilkes and attempted several times to lure

him away from his lovely wife Melanie. She was also attracted to Rhett Butler

and eventually married him. Scarlett was a survivor. When she was faced with a

problem, she took charge; whether it was taking care of Melanie when she had the

baby, shooting a union soldier, building the lumber company, or taking care of

something else. Melanie Hamilton, in contrast to Scarlett, was unselfish and

gentle. She always saw the good in people and situations and looked beyond their

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