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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
by Margaret Mitchell
Athira's review
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May 21, 13
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Read from June 12 to July 15, 2012
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I gave 5 stars to this book. But I can never say I loved reading it. Gone with the Wind is one of the best books ever written! This book was complete, perfect but at the same time reading this book was a miserable effort for me. I can't say I enjoyed every minute of reading it.
Because
When I read a book I always stand with the heroine but Scarlett O'Hara was not the one I can never support or stand with. The novel goes in her perspective which made my efforts to go with the book so hard and so miserable. She was so selfish and there was no other way but her glaring green eyes was the only door to the book. It was like reading and hating the book! I read and think, " oh Scarlett please don't do that" but she always did the wrong. Her character was complex like the book. If I say honestly, God! I so wanted to slap her all the time. But I never hate her. I loved her determination to bring Tara back and her courage to stand against anything. Her life in Tara when the civil war started was the only time I fully liked her. Melanie was an angel, a pure soul. Melanie and Scarlett was like good and evil. I loved Rhett, all the time. There is only one person in the book I hated the most, only one person, and that was Ashley Wilkes. He was no gentleman, yes. If he was one he would never had been blind to Melanie's love. I'm not saying he hated her. He loved her, but that was not enough! He was no gentle soul. Scarlett was so much better than him, she was a fool. She was stubborn and spoiled. She was selfish and unkind. But I believe she can change anything even her bad qualities and she will if she wanted to. And in the last chapter I know one thing that she really want to change herself. It won't be easy like her previous deeds, but she will succeed and there will be a good life for Rhett. yes. For Rhett. he deserves a peaceful life after Bonnie's death. He deserves Scarlett only because his unconditional love for her. not because of her mind which was so foolish and selfish once. And that will be her purification in life.
I am not going to write anything about American Civil war because I know a less about it. But Gone with the Wind gives a perfect picture of the American Civil War and racism which I don't even want to think about.
Because
When I read a book I always stand with the heroine but Scarlett O'Hara was not the one I can never support or stand with. The novel goes in her perspective which made my efforts to go with the book so hard and so miserable. She was so selfish and there was no other way but her glaring green eyes was the only door to the book. It was like reading and hating the book! I read and think, " oh Scarlett please don't do that" but she always did the wrong. Her character was complex like the book. If I say honestly, God! I so wanted to slap her all the time. But I never hate her. I loved her determination to bring Tara back and her courage to stand against anything. Her life in Tara when the civil war started was the only time I fully liked her. Melanie was an angel, a pure soul. Melanie and Scarlett was like good and evil. I loved Rhett, all the time. There is only one person in the book I hated the most, only one person, and that was Ashley Wilkes. He was no gentleman, yes. If he was one he would never had been blind to Melanie's love. I'm not saying he hated her. He loved her, but that was not enough! He was no gentle soul. Scarlett was so much better than him, she was a fool. She was stubborn and spoiled. She was selfish and unkind. But I believe she can change anything even her bad qualities and she will if she wanted to. And in the last chapter I know one thing that she really want to change herself. It won't be easy like her previous deeds, but she will succeed and there will be a good life for Rhett. yes. For Rhett. he deserves a peaceful life after Bonnie's death. He deserves Scarlett only because his unconditional love for her. not because of her mind which was so foolish and selfish once. And that will be her purification in life.
I am not going to write anything about American Civil war because I know a less about it. But Gone with the Wind gives a perfect picture of the American Civil War and racism which I don't even want to think about.
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Quotes Athira Liked
“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ....Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love....”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“As she chattered and laughed and cast quick glances into the house and the yard, her eyes fell on a stranger, standing alone in the hall, staring at her in a cool impertinent way that brought her up sharply with a mingled feeling of feminine pleasure that she had attracted a man and an embarrassed sensation that her dress was too low in the bosom. He looked quite old, at least thirty-five. He was a tall man and powerfully built. Scarlett thought she had never seen such a man with such wide shoulders, so heavy with muscles, almost too heavy for gentility. When her eye caught his, he smiled, showing animal-white teeth below a close-clipped black mustache. He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate's appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished. There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath. She felt that she should be insulted by such a look as was annoyed with herself because she did not feel insulted. She did not know who he could be, but there was undeniably a look of good blood in his dark face. It showed in the thin hawk nose over the full red lips, and high forehead and the wide-set eyes.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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Oh, so happy to see you reading Gone with the Wind which is one of the best books ever written!
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Yes, I agree with you. Great review. you are never bored for a minute reading this book. I think it is one of the greatest books ever written. (course I have Southern roots ;-)
hanks:-)You are a southerner? Wow. I didn't know anything about southerners before I reading this book. I knew only a bit about Civil War which I studied in 8th grade. But I can say one thing now; that is southerners are really awesome people;)
