It certainly has Scarlett O'Hara going for it | Well, as I learned in my economics class in college, if the war had been fought five years later the South would have won |
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However, the novel has become a reference point for subsequent writers about the South, both black and white | Guaranteed by South African Mint• It's the literary equivalent of the Confederate Flag |
I enjoyed the picture of plantations that did not abuse slaves to the extent that you read about in many memoirs.
3A non-racist book can have racist characters, and all the characters in this book are racist | It's great stuff, as long as you can forget that you're being asked to root for the KKK to get away with lynching a man |
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Written from the perspective of the slaveholder, Gone with the Wind is Southern plantation fiction | And don't think I'm cherry-picking the only racist passages; this book is soaked in racism |
Two different, complex aspects of the Old South - one lost without the other - and their antiquated way of life.
16She does this at the cost of her children's upbringing so she can rebuild Tara and her Atlanta life from the rubble of the war | Some are a struggle to get through and others are so captivating they read easier than a 300 page novel |
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important;border-color:rgba 221, 221, 221, 1! It takes guts to make your main character spoiled, selfish, and stupid, someone without any redeeming qualities, and write an epic novel about her | PS: I am, in fact, allowed to dislike this book |
The South had been tilted as by a giant malicious hand, and those who had once ruled were now more helpless than their former slaves had ever been.
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