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Book Review By Carissa
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The story is about a young women, Scarlett O'Hara, who cares for not many people in the world. She loves her parents and just realized, a young man named Ashley.
Scarlett soon finds out that Ashley is engaged to his cousin Melanie. Scarlett is furious because she is the object of affection for all the boys in her town, and the one boy she actually wants she can't seem to get. Scarlett beleives that if she trys that someday Ashley will love her. She can make him see that she's the one he loves not Melanie.
Scarletts plot to entice Ashley turns out wrong. The results of her thought to be ingenious plan end with a man named Rhett Butler over hearing, Scarlett hastily marrying Charles (Melanie's brother), and the civil war starts. Melanie and Ashley also get marryied hurting scarlett even more because she can't get over loving the sweet, smart, and charming Ashley.
The book continues with Scarlett facing conflict after conflict that many people had to face living in Georgia, owning slaves, and being part of the conferdate side during the civil war. In addition to Scarlett's problems that other southerns are facing she also has to deal with trying to be the great lady that Ellen, her mother, was. Scarlett didn't inherit only her mothers traits though she also inherited her father's Irish side making this task especially diffcult.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story - 1600-1899
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance:
Ethnic/Regional/Religion
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
War/Revolt/Disaster on civilians Yes
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes
Conflict:
Woman's story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 10 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm - lot of descript of crop raising - lot of descript of animal care

Writing Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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