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    It is extremely rare for someone to just write one book and be famous and important in the literary world. The author Mitchell Margret of Gone with the Wind did it, However. Since 1936, this book had been published, it has been translated into 29 different kinds of languages, and remains the most popular novel until today and has great impact on people. ( http://baike.haosou.com/doc/2611564-7572390.html ) This story contains many aspects of life: about attitudes, choices, relationship between…

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    racism is truly not felt in the films. Two films that have sparked a great deal of public outcry would be Birth of a Nation, which was filmed in 1915. A more surprising film that has upset some people would be Gone with the Wind, which was filmed in 1939. Many people would not assume Gone with the Wind has a film that has portrayed African Americans in a poor light, but it has. On the other hand, Birth of a Nation was truly a film that stereotyped African Americans. Birth of a Nation when…

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    Scarlett O Hara

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    Scarlett O’Hara Many scholars argue that Scarlett O’Hara, the main character of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, is a true representation of a feminist character. At the beginning of the novel, Scarlett marries a man on a whim to make another man jealous. On their first night together as husband and wife, she refuses to share the same bed as him. J.M. Spanbauer explains that this is a feminist way of thinking. Spanbauer states, “throughout the novel, Scarlett contemptuously…

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    What if everything that one believed to be true turns out to be false? What if something one thought that always is existed never actually existed? The movie A Beautiful Mind tries to answer those questions through a great mathematician’s experience with fantasy world and real world. Although the movie A Beautiful Mind focuses on the symptoms of schizophrenia and glosses over a schizophrenic mathematician’s life, it is an excellent movie because of the awards it received, the powerful deep…

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    Kyarah Rogers Gone With the Wind was historically inaccurate in its portrayal of the role of convicts, recognition of events, race relations, and the practice of slavery during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. To begin, the cinema falsely presented the role of post-Civil War workers known as convicts (History is Elementary). At the end of the war, Scarlett found herself struggling to pay her taxes, so she decided to start a lumber business. Of course, she needed men…

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    It is apparent, even before reading either Into the Wild or Walden, that Henry David Thoreau and Chris McCandless are both men who have a love for nature. Not everyone can say that they even particularly like nature and the outdoors, but these two men truly found the beauty of the wild. When reading both books, the reader finishes with an entirely different view on life. Both men were very much alike (believing in a lot of similar things and behaving in similar ways), but they did have their…

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    There is nothing as pointless as getting caught up trying to slow down time, and losing attachment to the moment you're in. Chris Mccandless and Holden Caulifield in Into the Wild by John Krakaur and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger are searching for belonging but are stuck in fantasy belief of humanity. Holden and Chris, only search for innocence, and are blind to the fact that our society is prone to change into an experienced place. Toward the end of both their stories, they are finally…

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    Into the Wild is a book written by Jon Krakauer which talks about the adventure of Christopher Johnson McCandless. Chris was a smart boy, who grew up from a wealthy family and graduated from Emory University, but his father had a second wife. Chris knew his father’s secret; however, he never told him which led Chris to a confusing situation. For that reason, Chris left his family to seek for his own happiness. On his adventure to Alaska, he met many people and left them a good impression.…

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    have put together all of the information I have found on Chris through recovered journals, mail he sent, and people I have talked to. I hope the information provided will offer you some closure. In this letter I have included a summary of where he has gone and what he has done, my opinion on why he has done all of this, why he was drawn to older people as friends, and finally why the works of some writers were so important to Chris and how the influenced them. Feel free to write me back with any…

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    Our world today has become arrogant, sensitive, and critical. Books are being banned in result of the sensitivity of our nation, including the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The novel takes place in the south during the Civil War era and follows a young woman’s romantic life and her survival through the war. She pursues the love of her life while in doing so must fight for her survival in the war plagued south. Despite the immense amounts of history in the novel, some believe the…

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