Has anyone read the book "Gone with the Wind"??

Question

Okay; if you have all i need is maybe a short summary of it. See im thinking about reading it and dont be like "Well i dont want to give it away" because that`s not how i am. I like to know what`s coming up next. Give me tons of details. Maybe even your favorite part; or even the saddest part. Explain why please and give lots and lots of details! Thanks :D

Answer 1

It is a good book. Long but good. Scarlett is the lead character. She lives in the south before the beginning of the Civil War. She has lots of beau, but is in love with the son from the neighboring plantation. He marries one of his cousins so she marries another man. Throughout the war she lives in Atlanta with her husbands family, which includes the wife of the man she loves. When they have to leave before Sherman burns it down, she has to get everyone in the family out. Once she arrives home she finds that illness has killed her mother and made her father crazy. She must restore her famiy's plantation. While all of this is going on she receives word that her husband has died so she must pretend to be in mourning, since she didn't really love him. She then marries on of her sisters beaus because he has made alot of money during the reconstruction. He is later killed during a raid on a shanty town. Again she has to pretend to mourn. The man she loves, Ashley, has returned from war to his wife and she takes him as a partner in her lumber business, which she inherited from husband number two. She finally marries Rhett Butler. She actually falls in love with him but refuses to admit it. He believes that if given the opportunity she would marry Ashley. When Ashley's wife dies, Rhett believes that he is losing Scarlett. They have a terrible fight and she falls down the stairs. While she is delirious she calls for Rhett not Ashley but he doesn't know this. So in the end she realizes that she really does love Rhett not Ashley but loses them both. It does end on a bit of a cliffhanger with nothing between Rhett and Scarlett really resolved. I liked both the book and the movie. Way more detail in the book, as she has a child by each of her three husbands and only one in the movie. I would suggest that you watch the movie first and if you want more in depth detail about the characters then read the book. My favorite part is more the underlying strength of Scarlett. Yes she is selfish and vain, but she will do whatever it takes including working in the fields to keep her family afloat after the war. The saddest part is probably when she loses her daughter. She had other children but Bonnie is the child she had with Rhett. It is her love for this child that show how she cares for Rhett and when she is killed in a pony riding accident it devestates both her and Rhett.

Answer 2

So why do christians come on here with all their intolerance, hatred, bigotry and persecution towards others and think that is acceptable when all Dawkins suggested was you should read a book?! Why so blind to what causes the backlash against christianity? ALL the other religions and atheists live in peace and are ONLY attacked by BAD christians which causes all GOOD christians to despair at the damage they do! Up until about 40 years back Christianity was thriving and there was no conflict with others but in just those few short years the modern christians have become intolerant, hate filled, bigoted and persecuting resulting in a growing backlash against christianity and causing christianity to loose over ten percent in less than a decade with the loss accelerating! The self destruction of Christianity is underway and the only thing that can stop it is to abandon the terrible human emotions, seek to rediscover the idea of a loving god and act like it!

Answer 3

READ IT! It's wonderful, and romantic, and a classic. Main characters are Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Bulter. Well, you can count Ashley Wilkes too becuase he's part of the love triangle. Anyway, basic love triangle (only MUCH better) and unrequited love, etc, etc. It's a good book, just read it... I've read it three times!

Answer 4

GWTW is a long interesting book about the South before, during and after the Civil War. It's an attempt by talented newspaper writer, Margaret Mitchell, at an allegory; Scarlett O'Hara, daughter of an Irishman's family on a plantation near Atlanta, is a figure representing female self hood unfettered by prejudices, laws and male tyrannies. The neighbors are the Wilkeses, an aristocratic British-type, with whose elder son, Ashley, symbol of the patrician-slaveholding South, Scarlett thinks she's in love. Then he marries Melanie Hamilton, his female counterpart; to spite him, Scarlett marries her young cousin, a symbol of mental haplessness and young Southernism, who dies of fever. She has also met Rhett Butler, the man who will eventually be the new South's complete man, one free of its pretensions, prejudices and patrician manners. The rest of the story has five parts. The Southerners begin the Civil Ware. Ashley goes off to fight; Melanie has a difficult childbirth during the retreat of southern forces and the capture of Atlanta; Scarlett flee to her plantation, with Melanie, with Rhett's help, before he goes off to join the hopeless cause; she finds her mother dead, her father crazy and the plantation a wreck. So she becomes a hard new woman, marries a lower class business type, runs a business ruthlessly, survives reconstruction when Ashley is nearly captured as a Klansman striking at Yankee occupiers; eventually she marries ahett, they have a daughter, and Bonnie is killed trying to jump a horse, wrecking their marriage. At the end, after Melenie has died, admired by Rhett and still misevaluated by Scarlett, she vows to win him back saying famously, "After all-tomorrow is another day...". She is still the new woman and he the new man and the time is not right for them yet to be complete, Southern and have rights at the same time. She's finally over Ashley, symbol of the old South, but it's still not enough. In fact, while walking out on her, Rhett says to her line "What'll become of me?" "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." But of course we know he does...

Answer 5

Gone with the wind is basically a trashy soap opera......its about a woman who gets her way by using people for the most part.......in the end she loses pretty much everything that should matter to her because she has no class whatsoever, and no concept of what it takes to be a real human being........but all that doesnt really mean a thing in the long run because she is very strong in her own screwed up, self-centered way and she just says..."oh well, tomorrow is another day"...............then she sits down and wonders about who she can use to make sure that she is always the center of attention and the envy of everyone in town.......the only one that is smarter than her is Mammy, her slave

Answer 6

You're _thinking_ about reading it? Why not look at the back of the book and maybe look up the Cliff Notes? This smacks of "I have a paper due Monday".

Answer 7

Scarlett had a son with her 1st husband and a daughter with the 2nd husband before she had "Bonnie" with Rhett. They cut that out of the movie!

Answer 8

The ideology of the book is practically a Klan pamphlet.

Answer 9

go to cliffnotes.com