Gone With the Wind
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Re: Gone With the Wind
This is my first post here although I’ve been reading through these forums for a few weeks. I’d seen the movie and read the screenplay. Earlier this morning I found an old copy of GWTW in the attic (really) and thought it might be too much to take on at the moment. So now, as I hold the book in my hand ready to start reading, I join the forums.
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grenadine54 - it never happened to me as thankfully, I didn't get the chance to make a wrong decision in my life but I helped quite a few people around me get over a wrong decision. Not everyone is as lucky as you to get the guy who liked you back in your life. The women I know who ran after the wrong guy lost the guy who actually liked them as he got married to someone else. A bit of a bummer actually.
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i don't think it was a waste of time. it wasn't margaret mitchell and it wasn't gone with the wind but it was a good bookHortonreader wrote:Reading most of the posts it sounds like reading the sequel might be a waste of time... Is that true?
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Grenadine54 wrote:i feel so stupid. i was so surprised when people reponded to my post by saying that scarlet did indeed have children. i read a LOT and tend to re-read books because you pick things up that you missed or forgot. i never re-read GWTW until now and i am so surprised that scarlet "within 2 weeks was married and within 2 months was a widow and a mother". she even took the child with her to atlanta. guess i have to finish rereading... maybe i should have done that when i started "Scarlet" and just "assumed" the author just made that up. you know what they say about assume... ass me LOLsamdgood wrote:i agree with everyone that gone with the wind is the best book and the book is better than the movie. i always thought the movie is great but you get more out of it if you read the book first. as far as the sequel goes, i was so angry when i started reading it i almost tossed it. but it's hard for me to start a book and not finish it so i read it. it was good once i got past the beginning but not as good as the original.
the thing that made me so angry was YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST BOOK! the sequel starts out with scarlet having two children. and that is nuts. she married her first husband who left for war immediately then died. then she married frank and he ended up dead. she had no children by either husband. then she married rhett and had bonnie who died and then had a miscarriage. so my question is, how can she have 2 kids in the second book? has anyone seen "misery" by stephen king? i feel like the crazy lady who explained to the author that you have to be true to the story.
That was the case in the movie. In the film, Scarlett only had Bonnie, and she died by falling off her horse. In the book, Scarlett did have a son by Charles, her first husband, and a daughter by Frank, her second husband. Bonnie died in the book as well. Later on, in the "Scarlett" sequel, she got pregnant by Rhett again and had a daughter. All in all, four kids for our Scarlett, one of which is passed away.
Alexandra Ripley may not have written the best sequel (honestly, none should have been written in the first place), but she did get Scarlett's offspring right.
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To the question, “Did Scarlett get Rhett back?” Miss Mitchell consistently said she didn’t know. To her the book ended where it ended.
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rummageam This reminds me of how there's a whole community of writers out there, ie sci fi or comic book writers, that consist entirely of fans. There are whole websites of published essays and novels that "continue" where stories have left off. I think it's great that these exist out there, because it makes fans so happy to imagine their favorite characters "staying alive". Ripley's Scarlett and Rhett surely had a different ending than for most of us.
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I haven't read the sequel because I didn't want to spoil the feel of the first one. Very few sequels do justice to the original.
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because the ending wasn't final, i understand that margaret was asked to do the sequel more than once and always refused. she also refulsed to allow anyone else to. after her death, her family finally gave permission for Scarlet to be written. i don't know this for a fact, it's just something i heard. i think you'll read scarlet.... it's not margaret mitchell but it's a good story.
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I understand there is community of fans trying to keep their favorite characters alive by writing sequels, but I don’t think another author has the time-line credentials that M. Mitchell had. Let’s look at them.
She was twenty-six years old when she started working on the novel. That’s only 61 years after the civil war; well with in the memory of a generation. This allows for all the historical content of her novel, whether real or imagined, or just plain folklore, to breathe the life that it does. And growing up in Georgia at that time the effects of reconstruction were still very strongly felt by native Georgians.
Just as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was Miss Betty Smith’s story to tell, so was Gone With the wind a story for Miss Mitchell to tell. And it should remain her story.
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The ending Of Gone with the wind was perfect in my eyes as the character is shown as someone who reaped the rewards of her actions in the end. That's very true in real life too. Just as real life doesnt give you second chances,where you don't value what you have in your present and then when you lose it, try to get it back, this book also ended where it should have, showing the results of the actions of the protagonist.
It's perfectly in line with the times it depicts. No doubt about that. The movie was made on the book and did justice to it as well where depicting the social background of the said time period was concerned.
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Has anyone ever read the sequel to Rebecca, Rebecca's Tale? I absolutely loved that sequel and thought it was really interesting to see things from Rebecca's POV.
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Scarlett had three children in Gone With the Wnd. Wade Hampton, the son of her first husband, Charles Hamilton; Ella, the daughter of Frank Kennedy, and Bonnie, the daughter of Rhett Butler.samdgood wrote:i agree with everyone that gone with the wind is the best book and the book is better than the movie. i always thought the movie is great but you get more out of it if you read the book first. as far as the sequel goes, i was so angry when i started reading it i almost tossed it. but it's hard for me to start a book and not finish it so i read it. it was good once i got past the beginning but not as good as the original.
the thing that made me so angry was YOU CANNOT CHANGE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST BOOK! the sequel starts out with scarlet having two children. and that is nuts. she married her first husband who left for war immediately then died. then she married frank and he ended up dead. she had no children by either husband. then she married rhett and had bonnie who died and then had a miscarriage. so my question is, how can she have 2 kids in the second book? has anyone seen "misery" by stephen king? i feel like the crazy lady who explained to the author that you have to be true to the story.
I read the sequel, and I wish I hadn't. One good thing about it - it taught me never never ever read a sequel that has been written by someone other than the original author. Both books are available on Kindle. I downloaded Gone With the Wind for 99 cents. Great value for having this timeless classic available anywhere, anytime. (I find the original hardback cover I have enormous, and heavy to hold).