《飘》英文版简介.pptx

Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption(进取心), people who fought their way through hard times successfully and came out survivors. She said that if her novel, Gone with the Wind, had a theme it was survival, "I wrote about the people who had gumption and the people who didn't." With Gone with the Wind Margaret brought a promising message to all people - "Tomorrow is another day."
Gone with the Wind
——Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling and Reconstruction Period novel that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s. The novel had a great success throughout the United States and around the world. It has been translated into about 27 languages in 37 countries. At present, Gone with the Wind is still one of the best-selling novels in the world.
Rhett Butler
Scarlett’s third husband, and a dashing, dangerous adventurer and scoundrel. Expelled from West Point and disowned by his prominent Charleston family. He becomes an opportunistic blockade-runner during the war, emerging as one of the only rich Southern men in Atlanta after the war. He proves himself a loving father and, at times, a caring husband.

Gone With The Wind
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• Margaret Mitchell:born in Atlanta, Georgia.
She spent her childhood in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her maternal relatives, who had lived through the Civil War. After graduating from Washington Seminary, she attended Smith College, but just one year later,in 1918,She returned to Atlanta to take over the household after her mother's death earlier that year from the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
• Scarlett is a pretty, unique Southern belle who grows up on the Georgia plantation of Tara in the years before the Civil War. Selfish, shrewd, and vain, Scarlett inherits the strong will of her father, but also desires to please her well-bred, genteel mother.
Scarlett O'Hara
Rhett Butler
• When hardships plague Scarlett, she shoulders the troubles of her family and friends. Scarlett’s desire for the Southern gentleman Ashley and the opportunistic New Southerner Rhett Butler makes use of the South’s struggle to cling to tradition and still survive in the new era.
Scarlett is a woman who are very brave and strong. When the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara farm, she struggles to live on. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. The day the Civil War begins, Rhett Butler, Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. Then Rhett Butler appears and more stories go on……….