《飘》英文版简介.ppt

《飘》英文版简介.pptxGone with the Wind
——Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling and Reconstructy 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."
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Scarlett O'Hara
Rhett Butler
Main characters
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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.
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 O'Hara
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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.
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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……….
plot
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Wisdom saying
First : Love isn’t enough when people are so different.
Second: Don’t look b