Since it's my first blog, I want to take a minute to talk about the first real novel I have ever read, and my most favorite book and movie of all time, Gone with the Wind.
I know it was written a little passed our time frame, but I have read this book at least 5 times, and I watch the movie every single time it is on television. I think that this book is so well written it takes you to a place and time of the old south.
Scarlett O'Hara, the rich southern belle who didn't have a care in the world to having everything and almost everyone taken away from her. You walk with her through the time of the Civil War, and the desperation she felt to get back to her family. Once she is there and realizes her mother is gone you feel the agonizing pain she must be feeling. The things that she does to take care of her family and to get back to the status she was accustomed to.
I think Margaret Mitchell wrote this book so well, she transports you back and the way she writes you feel everything that Scarlett is feeling. This book really did take me to another place and really is the reason that I love to read. My next blogs will be about different authors and books but I wanted to start out with the book that is my all time favorite.
I LOVE Gone with the Wind! It's my favorite American novel. Despite touching on slavery, it's well-written by layout, plot, weaving in the Civil War, and just great storytelling. Margaret Mitchell was gone way too soon, but she left behind this amazing novel. I find that great authors are gone too soon, for whatever reason. It's sad that so much talent is lost. It certainly transports you to an era that will never be again. I'm glad someone else loves this novel, too. I've never really heard many people picking up Victorian/Regency period novels with a fervor like I do. I have a bucket list of novels I think everyone should read on my blog, if you're interested.
ReplyDeleteI have grown up with this story, as it is the favorite of both my mother and my aunt. Maybe because I was exposed to it so much as a child, I have never read the book, YET! I am thinking that I would like to.
ReplyDeleteI am wondering if you cannot twist the two worlds of the one in "Gone with the Wind" and our last selections of work that we studied together. Perhaps inventing a character that lives in the same setting as the one in "Gone with the Wind," who is impacted by some of the influences of the writes from the antebellum time, like Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, and even our current Pod. I think that this would give the character a great conflict, he/she would be living in the south, surrounded by and accustomed to the life of having slaves, but could also have empathy for the points of view that the writers we are currently studying have to make.
It is just an idea...
I have heard so many great things about Gone with the Wind. I used to have the movie which I have also wanted to see but never got a chance to. After reading this blog and seeing how great of a book it is I definitely want to read it now.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I saw the movie was on the BIG SCREEN years ago. Powerful!
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