Gone With The Wind Banning

Our world today has become weak, sensitive, and critical. Our world shuts out what it doesn't want to hear even if it’s from the past. Books are being banned in result to the sensitivity and ignorance of our nation. Despite the immense amounts of history in the novel Gone with the Wind, some just can't get over certain literary elements in the book. The realism and language throughout the novel was not welcomed gently. These days, sensitive people find anything to be offensive even though it wasn't directed towards them. The sensitivity is at an all time high as literature that used to be the "greats" and "classics" are banned from curriculums. Although the subjects portrayed are sensitive matters, Gone with the Wind provides us with an accurate depiction of the Civil War and events surrounding it. The depiction of the Civil War in Gone with the Wind was very realistic, but it provided an accurate illustration of the war. Many have

Although the book contained an optimistic view toward slavery, the book was narrated from the point of view of an upper-class white southerner which provided an authentic perspective on their opinions. If the narrator was not optimistic toward slavery, the novel would've provided the audience with a false idea of the southerners beliefs. The novel isn't encouraging our world to re-adapt slavery, that's not the intended meaning at all. Gone with the Wind's view on slavery is often misinterpreted in that way. Tim and Beth Rowland elaborate on this idea through the their article "Was Slavery The Main Reason For The Civil War?". The treatment of the slaves and blacks in the novel was harsh and cruel, but to have anything besides that, this book would be historically incorrect. Margaret Mitchell didn't purposely insert racism into her story to offend others, but to rather illustrate the setting and vernacular of the time