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    1. An explanation of how the couple fell in love. That is, how did they choose one another? You will apply a mate-selection theory to explain the couple’s attraction for one another The film Gone With The Wind depicts a love story between protagonist Katie Scarlett a tease with the boys, deemed by society forever unmarriageable, and Rhett Butler, a mysterious ladies man, with his eyes set on her. The two fall in love through their uncanny similar personality traits, views, and morals in life, in

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    The gust of wind is complete different than someone left alone in life. A novel that analyzes  both is Margaret Mitchell Gone With The Wind, I just finished the book three days ago, and the book is something everyone  should read in the South. I am not really a fan of books based  during the civil war, but the book has characters that people can actually connect  too and  with real facts from  the Civil War. Gone With The Wind  states the story of  a girl, Scarlett O’Hara, and her time growing up

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    The title Gone With the Wind is taken from the poem "Non sum qualis eram" by the nineteenth century poet Ernest Dowson, "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. I have forgot much Cynara! gone with the wind...." Margaret Mitchell's novel was published officially by the Macmillan Company on June 30, 1936, although advance reviews of the novel, which was at one time to bear the title Tomorrow Is Another Day, appeared as early as May 1936. The book immediately became a bestseller, and many

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    Gone With the Wind The novel being summarized is titled Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret Mitchell. It was published in 1936, after it took her seven years to write, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind was the only book Ms. Mitchell wrote and is an American Classic. Gone with the Wind was a story of men and women living in the south during the war between the states and of the south’s transformation after the war. The novel began in about 1861 at Tara and Twelve Oaks

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    Gone with the Wind, was published in May 1936. The author, Atlanta born, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her efforts. The novel was the first and only published novel of her career. Miss Mitchell was a storyteller from the time she could speak. She enjoyed writing stories and plays. She would cast herself and her friends in the different roles. She lived in Atlanta all of her life and she was enchanted in the history of the city. Miss Mitchell was influenced by the stories

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    Gone with the Wind opens with beautiful shots of the Georgian countryside, accompanied by sweeping romantic music and the sentiment rolling down the screen: “There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind” (Selznick) The film

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    Gone With The Wind(1939), is a movie centered around the civil war. Covering the transformation that the South went through during and after the war. The southern folk boasting about their chivalry, tradition and pride. Within Gone With The Wind, there's romance, heart break, deceitfulness and pride. Gone With The Wind, is a movie covering the life of one woman, and how she survived in the South during the Civil War. The subject matter of this movie, revolves around the south before and after the

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    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 movie directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia De Havilland. The film follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara (Leigh), a young Georgian woman, and her pursuits of romance and wealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She faces the challenges of rebuilding her family’s plantation and finding love while the man she wants to pursue already married. This film falls into the genres of historical and romance. Historical films are characterized

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    Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind is a kind of drama, romance, and war film. This American romantic movie released in 1939, and the director of this movie is Victor Fleming. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes, and Olivia de Hvilland as Melanie Hamilton are famous actors and actresses in this movie. This movie shows Scarlett, who loved Ashley during the civil war. Gone with the wind is one of the bestseller movie in Hollywood. Also

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    hard and tough, that is what Dally is trying to hide Johnny Cade from. The moral of Gone With the Wind is relative to Nothing Gold Can Stay. “Love and understanding are gone with the wind.” A film taking place in the setting of the Civil War, where characters had to make an effort everyday to survive, like Johnny was having to do after the church fire. Johnny’s understanding of why this had happened to him was long gone, he knew why he did it, and that his love for his brothers was never going to leave

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