Response to Gone With The Wind

Preface:

Scarlett O’Hara has chosen to do whatever it takes to save her city of Tara from the Civil War. Margret Mitchell gives us a thrilling adventure to follow in Gone With The Wind, leaving us on the edge of our seat the whole time. I enjoyed this book in particular because it takes you back in time, as if you were there yourself.

Letter:

Dear Mrs. Margaret Mitchell,

I really liked your book, Gone With The Wind. It was one of the most magnificent books I have ever read. It gives a perfect image of what the Civil War was like and it also makes learning about past history easier. What I did not appreciate, however, is how you ended the book. It shocked me very much how it was left hanging. Now, I am not the type to believe in happy endings, but I also really want to know what happened.
Did Scarlett marry someone else? Did she ever win back Rhett Butler? If not, he is a majorly stupid. He should not have left her in the first place. He is being very unreasonable. It is not Scarlett’s fault that their daughter, Bonnie, died. He is just very sad and angry and he took it out on Scarlett. Poor thing. I cannot imagine what it must have felt like to be in her position, especially at that time while trying to save her beloved town.
The part that made me most mad, was when Ashley’s sister, India, finds them hugging (in a friendly way!) and spreads the rumor that they are having an affair, which made me hate India so much that I almost threw the book across the room. I don’t like when people do something where they deserve to be punished and I cannot punch them in the face (because they are not real, sadly). I feel like Scarlett still has another adventure to go on to fix all the problems that remained, but at the same time, I feel like this was a perfect ending because I seemed more realistic that if she had a happy ever after with Rhett Butler. I mean, a more realistic book is a better book after all.