My book review is on Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind".
This book is about the civil war and its drastic effects on southern society.
The book describes how people in the south coped with the civil war, how
they felt about it and the aftermath of the civil war. The action of this book
starts in Southern Georgia, on an independently owned plantation. Tara, the
name of the plantation was owned by a daring Irishman Mr. Gerald O'Hara.
Gerald O'Hara came all the way from Ireland with no money and no
possessions, which was not uncommon during the early 1800's since many
people from across the ocean came to America in hopes of a better life and
land. Mr. O'Hara gambled his way into owning a slave-run plantation in the
local tavern, which was also not that uncommon since gambling in that time
was very popular and the stakes were high. It was not uncommon for a
planter to bet his children, his family and his plantation on a game of poker.
Gerald O'Hara married Ellen Robillard of Savannah, a French aristocrat
from the highest Society on the Coast. They then had seven children, of
which only three survived, three daughters. Since the conditions were poor
in the countryside, winters were always hard on the plantation and medical
supplies were hard to come by much less doctors, which were very scarce,
one in every three babies was said not to reach adulthood. When news of the
Civil War reached Tara in May of 1861, Scarlet was only sixteen years old.
All the boys and the young men around her were talking about enrolling
with enthusiasm and eagerness. They couldn't wait for the war to start and to
be over. In fact, common opinion throughout the south was: "why, we could
lick them in a month; we're going to wipe out the Yankees in one
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