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Common Ties within the Races

Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction are general ideas that are subjects in many novels written in the past. Two influential and controversial novels that these themes are present in are Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Jubilee by Margaret Walker. These books take place in the same time period, but show different views that took place in these times. Gone With the Wind tells about the lives of white southerners and Jubilee talks of the African-American slaves. The novels individually address separate real life issues of land, family and community; which affected the every day lives of their characters.
Gone With the Wind’s main character Scarlett O’Hara is a pretty southern belle whose first impression to the reader is as a spoiled girl who cares for nobody but herself. As the novel continues it’s shown that this isn’t exactly true, she has more passions in life. Gone With the Wind has a main theme of land possession......

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