Gone With the Wind
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Re: Gone with the Wind . . . gone with my heart
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P.S. I had not seen the movie until after I read the book and was actually disappointed in the movie because it left so much out.
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All in all, this book remains one of the very best of the Pulitzer Prize winning novels ever written.
It also translated really well into the cinema as well, which is rare for a classic book.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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I was devastated after reading it to learn that MM did not write a sequel but I did read it. The characters were not as fleshy and there were some moments that probably made MM roll over in her grave, but for me I was just happy that I could read more about those lives. If you want a sequel, don't read Scarlet. Watch the movie. Much better than the book if you can get through the new Rhetts acting skills.
If you have never read the book, only seen the movie, be prepared for a few shocks between the two. The book has a lot more going on in Scarlet's life than the movie does, and there were quite a few things I was surprised at.
I never saw Scarlet as particularly vicious or cruel. I saw her as a desperate teenage girl who is pining for the man she thinks she loves, (haven't we all been there!) who lives through a terrifying, horrible ordeal (the war) that changes her, makes her realize the price of failure and what it means to be destitute, starving, and at the mercy of others. Her determination to save Tara and to never be poor or at the mercy of others may seem selfish, but her sisters, the slaves, Ashley and Melanie, they all benefit from it. She doesn't save herself. She saves her entire world and brings it back, not just for herself, but for everyone. She is brave in a way that women back then just weren't, at least not on the outside. I always loved the way her and Belle were just so close in personality, yet they despised each other for it. Belle was a madame, and Scarlet married for gain. Not much difference. But even Scarlet's marriages show the difference and change she goes through. She marries Charles for spite. She marries Kennedy for money. Rhett? Because he got to her. Made her feel. Made her want. She just never realized how much she wanted him until the end.
I think I needs to reread this.
Languages never spoken.
Colors that should not be.
Lives never opened.
Eyes that never see.
And then the page is turned, a universe created.
We are gods.
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I read the sequel when it was published in some woman's magazine. I did not like it. It did not have the same "voice", which is logical, since it had a different author. And I'm not saying it was not well done. There was just something intrinsically different that I sensed. And Scarlett was not turning out to be a better person, and it turned me off.
One thing Gone with the Wind did for me was to interest me in history, and how it affects individual people. I began to take an interest in American history first, then gradually in the history of other countries. I used fiction as a sort of trick me to hook my interest, and then I 'd be moved to check out non-fiction if not my school textbooks.