Johnston McCulley Essays

will withstand the test of time. The character of Zorro, is more of a title, being passed down to younger generations to continue seeking justice. But, when he was originally written, he was the alter ego of Don Diego Vega. Zorro was created by Johnston McCulley for a short story in the magazine All-Story Weekly. Only a year after his creation, a feature film based off his short stories was created. The character of Zorro rose to popularity in the 1940s, when Hollywood remade The Mark of Zorro, and inspired

‘Gone with the Wind’ is an American epic historical romance film produced in 1939. It was based on the 1936 Pulitzer – winning novel of Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War in the 1860s. This period is also known as Reconstruction Era. Originally, the name of the novel is ‘Tomorrow is Another Day’, according to the sentence ending story. However, the author chose the term ‘gone with the wind’ from a poem of Ernest Dowson, ‘Non Sum

by General Joseph E. Johnston, however, due to injury General Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate army. Once Lee was given control of the army the Confederacy and Union troops engaged in several battles, known as the Seven Days’ Battles, which would effective stop the Peninsula campaign. McClellan thought he would be able to end the war by capturing Richmond. Yet, because of Robert E. Lee’s tactics, the war would last another