Gone With The Wind Reflection

  The movie Gone With The Wind is one of the most complex movies that I have seen. It was a romance, it had touches of comedy, history, action, and so much more. One of the meanings in the movie was the title. When I think of wind, it blows things away. Disrupts what was there before, changes the surroundings of an environment, things vanish, and pieces are left behind. The title of the movie is a metaphor of what is happening in the South during the Civil War. The movie starts with a girl living in a bubble of higher class life in the South. She goes to balls, lunches, has many maids to help her, the nicest fashion, and her only issue is that the boy she is in love with is getting married to someone else. As a wind storm starts brewing, the talk of war starts circulating her town and then suddenly all of the men are off to war. She is forced to work as a doctor and care for the men coming back injured. The lighting changes in the film as well. As things get worse, the backgrounds become darker and darker. Symbolizing the storm and the wreckage that came with the Civil War. The Civil War was one of the most brutal wars in America's history. Towns were destroyed, burned, and they also disappeared. 62,000 lives were lost, 360,222 Union deaths and 285,000 Confederate deaths. Lives were lost, towns destroyed, and the future of America was altered. The Civil War was an intense war but the cause was a worthy fight - ending slavery. Gone with the wind - the changes of our surroundings. America was forever changed by the Civil War, lives and towns vanished, but in the end the storm left America in a better place.