Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | A book about slave owners? Racist? No!

Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Utterly Divine.....

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Gone With the Wind

	Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell Scribner, 1936 - 1048 pages average customer review:based on 657 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A book about slave owners? Racist? No!

Great book. A must read, though whether or not you like it is up to you. I've loved this book since I was fourteen, and I think it is one of the best novels to ever come out of America.

It drives me crazy when people say this book is racist. Really? A book written by a southerner, closely related to former slave owners? Racist? NO! The book is written about a south that the people of the south say and believed in, and the characters are all people who fit into this setting. This wasn't a story about enlightenment and aboltionism. It was a story about a woman in the south and the Civil War and reconstruction through her eyes. Not your eyes. Not the eyes of the northern aboltionists. Not the eyes of a slave. It was shown through the eyes of half the population of the US at the time, and that people try to nullify these views is wrong. This is the way people thought and felt, and villifying all slave owners (many of whom grew up in that society and didn't know much better) is no better than making all negroes stupid. In the end, it's a work of fiction. A book. Reading and enjoying it doesn't make someone a racist, and I would hope that people would please stop saying that. Don't like the book? Don't read it. I, for one, would say that books like "The Wind Done Gone" is no less racist, though there will be hell to pay if someone actually says it out loud.

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Utterly Divine.....

This book is truly a part of my soul...it's my favorite & I absolutely love it! Five is not enough stars!

Too good for words

I really can't describe how I feel about this book and about Scarlett. She is a character without parallel. You can't help admiring her even when you deplore her for her failings. Amazing.

There is a reason this novel is called a classic!

This is my favorite novel ever! Wonderful historical background and wonderful characters, especially Scarlett, Rhett, and Melanie. If you liked the movie, but have never read the book, you will love the book. There are so many more details and events that occur in Scarlett's life in the book that aren't included in the movie. Even though the book is long, I have read it many times and love it just as much each time.

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You reap what you sow

Selfish, sought after, sixteen-year-old Katie "Scarlett" O'Hara has everything a Southern Belle could want as the story begins in April of 1861: a loving family; a plethora of attentive suitors, and a lovely home on a plantation situated 25 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, maintained by the family's (p 279) hundred slaves. She soon learns that the primary object of her affections, Ashley Wilkes, is to about to announce his engagement. And before you know it, she has professed her love to one man, encountered another (Rhett Butler) for the first time, become engaged, married, pregnant and widowed. Meanwhile, most of the local males have become Confederate soldiers, battling on the side of the South in the Civil War. As the locals mourn their dead and the battles rage on, Scarlett chooses to return to Tara. After surviving a harrowing journey, she learns the fate of her family and home, and takes on roles of caregiver, operations manager, and manual laborer for the plantation along with its remaining inhabitants. She marries, again with ulterior motives, and moves to Atlanta, where her behavior as sole businesswoman starts tongues wagging. One wonders, will she ever find love?

When the story ends, twelve years later, the war is over and many of her loved ones have passed. While she learns a few things about friendship, family, love, and loss, some things never change, like her feelings (contempt and disdain) about slaves and beliefs about slavery (better for them than their freedom). With its racist rhetoric, negative stereotypes, and inflammatory words for blacks (the "n" word alone appears ninety times), it is a lesson on the incomprehensible capacity of humans to justify their infliction of suffering on others and will likely cause many readers to squirm. But it is also a masterful epic on life and love in the South during the Civil War, with great character development and spectacular writing (including some neat old, odd words) which make it a worthy read from start to 700-plus page finish.

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