Thursday, July 17, 2008

Gone with the Wind

Just finish reading this book

Quite interesting…

background is the American Civil War

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But the only thing is it's slightly long

It took me 2 weeks plus to finish the novel

But imagine the writer using

10 years to complete it

should pay her tribute for her great effort

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I think is very appropriate for the writer to

Make Scarlett the protagonist in the story

Her characters portrayed are so real

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And at certain points

I thought I share some similarities with her

Head-strong, arrogant, unforgiving, jealous…

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The other characters in the novel

are quite real and impressive as well.

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The love story part is so so long…

Supposed Scarlet gets the chance

to marry Ashley

but she married Charles

out of fury for people

who have been gossiping about her

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two months later

she found herself a pregnant widow

gave birth to a son

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then she escaped from the war scenes

with the help of Rhett

a rough man, known to be a rogue

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after the war

she was trying to rebuild her home

out of desperation for money to pay tax

she marries her sister's fiancé, Frank

takes control of his business

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her business tactics makes her

an unpopular figure

then Frank is tragically killed by KKK

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Remorseful after Frank's death

Scarlett marries Rhett

who is aware of her passion for Ashley

but hopes that one day

she will come to love him instead

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Scarlett eventually comes to

realize that she does love Rhett

but only after the couple

has been through so much that

Rhett has fallen out of love with her

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so she never really meet a true soul mate

she married thrice

all three with the man she doesn’t loves

ultimately when she came to

realize her mistake

it was already too late

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so…

is it true that

in our life time

we will only meet that particular one once

and if you miss that only chance

you will miss it forever

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or…

if we have missed the previous one

we should forget about him/her

and learn to receive another new person

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love is…

a funny little game

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