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19. Favorite book turned into a movie
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
This book is seen often as the story of slavery and such but it isn’t about that. It’s about family, love and what one will do to survive in a world gone mad. Scarlett O’Hara is a beautiful and privileged southern belle until the Civil War comes calling and takes everything away from her, everything but her beloved home, Tara, but even Tara is battered and ruined by the war and the poverty that follows.
I have read people criticize about the way it treats women and black people but as with old books, one does have to consider that this book was written in the 30s in the heart of the south about the most romanticized period in southern history. I do think Mitchell takes a hard look at what it took for a woman to survive in a man’s world.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
This book is seen often as the story of slavery and such but it isn’t about that. It’s about family, love and what one will do to survive in a world gone mad. Scarlett O’Hara is a beautiful and privileged southern belle until the Civil War comes calling and takes everything away from her, everything but her beloved home, Tara, but even Tara is battered and ruined by the war and the poverty that follows.
I have read people criticize about the way it treats women and black people but as with old books, one does have to consider that this book was written in the 30s in the heart of the south about the most romanticized period in southern history. I do think Mitchell takes a hard look at what it took for a woman to survive in a man’s world.