My favorite book.ppt
My favorite book,Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell,Brief Introduction,Gone with the Wind,first published in May 1936,is a Drama,romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell that won the coveted（梦寐以求的）Pulitzer Prize in 1937.The story is set in Clayton County,Georgia and Atlanta,Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and depicts the experiences of Scarlett OHara,the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner.The novel is the source of the extremely popular 1939 film of the same name.,Margaret Mitchell penned Gone with the Wind in a linear fashion,basing it on the life and experiences of the main character,Scarlett OHara,as she grew from a young woman into the responsibilities of adulthood.Notably,Mitchell almost entirely skipped over the subject of the morality of slavery or whether the South was justified in pursuing war against the North,preferring to allow the reader to decide for herself based upon the actions or inactions of the novels characters.,Plots,It is Old South,which today is no more than a dream remembered.People were once there,living with the high strong slaves songs,in security,peace and eternity（永恒）.Here,Scarlett spends her young maiden years.She is well disciplined by her mother,but her blazing green eyes always betray her covert（隐蔽的）capricious（任性的）self;the one who enjoys parties and the surrounding of beaus（情郎）.She dreams to marry the noble Ashley Wilkes.The impending war shatters the golden peace of the South,and leaves many lives permanently changed.Plantations,treasures,and honor are ruined.Scarlett is made a most peculiar widow by the war,and then compelled into a second marriage in continuation of her struggle for the salvation（拯救）of Tara.And her third marriage to Rhett Butler is also jeopardized(危及）because of her secret,stubborn ardency（热情）for Ashley.In the end of the movie,Scarlett is left only with her Tara,a plantation which symbolizes the culture of the Old South,a place where she could ever gather her strength,“Ill think of it all tomorrow,at Tara.I can stand it then.Tomorrow,Ill think some way to get him back.After all,tomorrow is another day.”Said Scalett Ohara,the most wonderful woman Ive ever seen.She was hard and greedy and unscrupulous（肆无忌惮的）,a brave,frightened,bull-headed（任性的）child.Though she only thought about how to attract mans attention and did not do anything useful before the war,she did surprise me when I read about her doings after the war.At that time,her Tara was just reduced to ashes.Everyone sketched out their hands and asked her for food.She bravely faced the reality and rebuilt Tara with her own hands.What a tough woman,I thought.Though those she loved were all gone,she was still full of hope.When Rett didnt love her anymore and wanted to leave her,she said“I mustnt bawl even if he doesnt love me.”A womans dignity could be seen from what she have said and done.Thats why I appreciate her.,Character,Inspiration,I felt that I was deeply fascinated by it soon after I had read it.I just could not express how I felt.All were over:trouble was over;lives were over;hopes were over.I was shocked how such a small book could contain such a complicated story.Never were wars,diseases and starvation ever nakedly exposed to me like this.The turns in plots were surprising but natural.,It was a tragedy:Just as its name suggested,everything was gone with the wind,including families touch,friends support,sweethearts gaze and youth with vigour.The story reminds us of valuing all we were possessing.A life lasts for a short time and anything in it lasts shorter.We always lose something unconsciously and then feel regretful when we need them later.Characters in the story were so vivid as if they had been going to jump out of the story,as if they had been existed in the real life at first.,Some episodes in Gone with the Wind,
