In 1939, David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema. To this day, in fact, it remains the American box office champion when adjusted for inflation. In 1940, the film won a record-breaking eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Recently, however, Gone with the Wind has increasingly come under fire due to allegations of racism in the movie. Consequently, its reputation has fallen in many critical circles.
The film tells the story of a Southern family who fight on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Scarlett O’Hara, the main character, is a slave owner whose civilization goes to war to preserve the right to own and degrade African Americans. Life before the Civil War, during the days of slavery, is depicted as a golden age.
Scarlett’s maid and confidante, Mammy, is not even given a first name in the script. Meanwhile, Butterfly McQueen, who portrayed Prissy, a house servant whom Scarlett slaps across the face at one point in the film, was told by the director to deliver a hysterical performance emphasizing the character’s dim-wittedness, speaking to age-old negative stereotypes. Civil rights activist Malcolm X wrote of his embarrassment seeing Butterfly McQueen’s performance as Prissy that it made him want to crawl under the rug of the theater.
For all of these reasons, when watching Gone with the Wind today, modern viewers cannot help but feel admiration for how far the movie industry has come since its infancy. There is much to be embarrassed about in the early days of Hollywood films.
The reading and the lecture are both about the criticism of the gone with the wind movie. The reading author feels that the gone with the wind movie was a racist work against black Americans. The lecturer challenges the claims made by the author. She believes that the movie did not show any racism, and the critics exaggerated it.
To begin with, the author argues that the movie's main character, a slave owner, went to the war to protect his right to own African Americans. The article mentions that the main character's decision to go to the war was foolish and rash, and he did not suggest the idea of preserving the right of owning African Americans.
Secondly, the writer suggests that the movie described and showed life in America during slavery as a golden age. The lecturer, however, refutes this by mentioning that, on the contrary, the movie depicted life before the civil war and during the days of slavery in America as the day with limited opportunities for women in America. She elaborates this by bringing up the point that women had more opportunities after the war than ever before.
Finally, the author posits that Butterfly McQueen's performance was full of obeying the rule and showed personality weakness. In contrast, the lecturer's position is that Butterfly added a repulsive element to the character. She notes that McQueen showed unafraid to disobey the orders.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 193, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... a racist work against black Americans. The lecturer challenges the claims made by ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, in contrast, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1161.0 1373.03311258 85% => OK
No of words: 235.0 270.72406181 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94042553191 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.91531732006 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52403207001 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56170212766 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 364.5 419.366225166 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1042003464 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.75 110.228320801 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5833333333 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 7.06452816374 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0996818902992 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0364149102999 0.0996497079465 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414468851954 0.0662205650399 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0545798597833 0.162205337803 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043730495417 0.0443174109184 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.3589403974 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.2367328918 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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