Gone with the Wind

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Summary: A Novel that Changed the Civil War Perspectives
Review: Are you looking for a book that will be refused to put down? Then you may have just hit the ultimate jackpot;Gone with the Wind is a flurry of different themes that come together in one book,each of which beckon the reader to follow word after word to the last period.From romance to adventure, this book brilliantly entwines descriptions that come alive and stir emotions from deep in your heart.The author,Margaret Mitchell, carefully picks out her characters to make a rather interesting and unique combination that make this novel come to life.Join Scarlett O'Hara,the once pampered belle of the County,as she fights to regain her old life's treasures after the destructive effects the Civil War.Some will be frustrated,others,left melancholy,but the outcome of this beloved story is guaranteed to be breathtaking,one way or another.

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Summary: FarmerChickBB's review
Review: Gone With the Wind takes place in the 1800's and is about an American girl named Scarlett O'Hara trying to fit in Atlantas society . Scarlett is a ordinary girl who just seems to bend the rules a little.She goes to parties and balls like all other girls. The Civil War starts and turns her world upside down. She has to learn to do things that women don't do but she does it just to survive. She learns to work the fields, runs lumber mills,and a store. Society throws her out because she is doing things women wouldn't dare do even to survive. She has to deal with all the hardships of war.She loses many loved one due to fighting and starvation. While all of this is happening she meets a man named Rhett Butler who helps her tremendelsy. He picks her up from all of her troubles and survive and tries to get back her place in society. I would recommend this book for anyone who likes romance novels.

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Summary: Kayla's Review to a Great Book
Review: Gone with the Wind is a classic that everyone should read. This book is filled with romance, adventure, and hope. Watch Scarlett weave her way through different husbands and lovers while trying to keep her family alive. As opposed to Melanie, Scarlett is rather self-centered and never really changes, she does not care what anyone thinks of her and is prepared to do her own thing. Melanie is a loving, caring, considerate young women who always wants the best for everyone, including her husband, Ashley and Scarlett. I think that this is a great book that is really worth reading. There is constatantly hope for better times, even when better times have come.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Being a Atlanta belle myself and seeing the movie many times I decided to read the book. The begining was quite boring, but after I to page 300 or so I really started to enjoy the book. I really like it and was really sad when it ended, but some or the things I didn't understand. Scarlett really seemed to marry Frank for his money, but she also seemed to love him because she gave him a kid and she slept with him for a couple of years. She seems to dislike her kids, but at times she acts like she couldn't leave them for anything. I really felt sorry for Rhett in the end because in the movie he doesn't tell how much he loves her. The movie doesn't really interpret how bad Scarlett's live was effected by the war. I really loved the book and really wished Margaret Mitchell had a chance to write a second book.

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Summary: One of the Best Books Ever!!!
Review: I had seen the movies like 20 thousand times when I decided to read the book. I got to about page 250 when I stopped uninterested. About three months later on a dare I checked out Scarlett and started to read it. I really loved it, but many of the characters mentioned were people I had never heard of in the movie. Very confused and wanting to get it all figured out I got GWTW and started to read it again. This time I made myself keep reading and after about page 400 it started to get really interesting. I read from page 400 to the end in two and a half days and was terribly upset when it ended. I think this a great book and know I am on a search for ever Civil War book written.

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Summary: The book of all time
Review: There will never be another book to match the greatness of "GONE WITH THE WIND". No matter how many times I read it and re-read it I have always falling prey to it's spell of great reading. I don't care for other people who have a fanatical hatred for this book. It seems sad that these people who call this great classic racist are also the same people saying that the South deserved what it got and the southern people too got what they desereved. How can they even suggest such a thing? The killing of civilians, the pillaging, the murder of whole families and black ex-slaves, the stealing of homes, the burning of whole towns, civil liberties taking away when the south and it's people were doing their best to start again and be part of the Union again after the war, martial law being the order of the day for over five years, the robbing of state government money, over taxation again for the South and it's people after the war and after taxes being one of primary reasons for the the war, the murder of many more man and their families for being defiant against a Government that lied to them again, and all is being condoned by people who live now in the present who say the Southern people deserved what they got for having slaves and daring to follow what the Consitution allowed? the right of session. Do these people not know the law? history and American governmentworkins?, and the right of session being an American and constitutional right?. How sad. Gone With The Wind is a book. A great book. The story of Scarlett O'Hara and her fight to never be hungry again, her fight to never let the Yankees beat her, and her fight to keep Tara her land from the Yankees. Scarett is a role model for anyone who will do anything to survive when the time comes to keep from being poor. Whether she is spoiled, caculating, and shrewed or just plain mean she gets what she wants, just like I think she would have gotten Rhett back sooner or later. Or Rhett would have come back. He loved her too much and waited to long for her to just give her up easily. Remember how he waited till the burning of Atlanta to enlist in the Cause to save the Condfederacy, of course he would have returned back to her in the end. And for all the people who think slavery was the only issue pertaining to the civil war. Read your history. Not public school history or present history. Read real history before 1970. You'll get the history you were robbed from. Remember slavery was legal so that made it okay in the eyes of the law before the Civil War. It was legal. It didn't make it right. Abraham Lincoln too said he wasn't sending troops South to end slavery, he was sending troops to end the Antebellum South.

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Summary: Ola's Review to Long Books
Review: Imagine that in a flurry, your old life disappears; what was once poverty and happiness has transformed into poverty and a new, bittersweet lifestyle. Welcome to Scarlett O'Hara's corrupted world, where what once seemed improper is now necessary to survive. I thought this book brilliantly combined romance, adventure, and non-fiction information based on the southern aspect of the Civil War.

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Summary: Brittany
Review: The last book that I finished was Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. It is set during the Civil War in the South, specifically in Atlanta. It is the story of Scarlett O'Hara and how her life changes during the Civil War and early Reconstruction. She is selfish and vain and will do about anything to rebuild her life after the North wins the war. She is left very poor and has to provide for the survivors of her family. She will do anything to make some money, even marry several times to people that she doesn't care for while the real "love" of her life is married to her sister-in-law. Scarlett just wants to have enough money to once again become the belle of the county.
One character that she meets on this journey that I particularly enjoyed was Rhett Butler. Rhett is a charming, opinionated man with money that sees Scarlett how she really is and tells people the truth, however harsh that it is.
I liked this book because it is about the Civil War, but through the eyes of a vain young woman whose life drastically changes. If you like historical fiction with a romantic twist, you will probably enjoy this classic tale of love between two interesting personalities.

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Summary: Rhea's Rave Review
Review: Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, is an amazing book based rural Georgia from the Civil War antebellum to Reconstruction. Scarlett O'Hara begins as a sixteen-year-old belle of the county, but ends up facing perils the kind of which she could never imagine. In the book, love holds Scarlett together, but in the end fails her. Mitchell's style is unique and distinguishable. The moral value of this book is unusually displayed by the contradictions to it made by Scarlett. I loved reading about Scarlett's relationships with her friends and, more interestingly, her enemies. Though it is sometimes difficult to like Scarlett, it is impossible to ever hate Mitchell's messages throughout this amazing epic novel.

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Summary: Farmer Chick's Book Review
Review: Gone with the wind is an all time classic. This book is about a girl named Scarlett O'Hara who has a wonderful life until war breaks out and her world is turned upside down.She has to learn the basics to surviving but it comes with difficulty. Along the way she loses two husbands but has one final one which lasts. His name is Rhett Buttler. He helps her become a rich woman again. But is she truly happy? You will have to read to find out. Through all of this there is a moral which is, don't take what you have for granted and apprciate what you have because one day you may not have it.