Gone With the Wind 飘.ppt

Writers photos Characters: Some photos Some photos * Gone With the Wind Made by Shannon 2012.11. Outline 1:Author introduction 2:Background 3:Contents 4:Characters 5:Some new words, useful phrases, idioms and beautiful sentences. 6:My impressions Author introduction： Margaret Mitchell 玛格丽特 米歇尔 In November 8, 1900, Margaret Mitchell was born in the United States of America Atlanta downtown. Her father Eugene Mitchell was an Atlanta lawyer, later to become president of the society of history. During the civil war, Atlanta was in 1864 fall to the northern army general Schulman hand. Later, a history of past became a hot topic in atlanta. As a child, Mitchell often heard her father and friends talked about the history of the civil war. In 1914, she experienced the first World War, the real experience of the war and the authenticity of cruelty. The novel is set in North Georgia at the time of the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865 and beyond when the Southern plantation owners fought the northern Yankees for the right to own slaves. They lost the war, suffered innumerable losses of life in the process, and the romantic plantation life depicted in the early chapters of the novel is destroyed. During this period the characters in the novel undergo the transition from a carefree playful life of picnics and parties (underlain by the hard graft of their slaves) to one of hand-to-mouth living and hard physical labour, and finally, back to prosperity. Background: Contents: Gone with the Wind: Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarle