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 passage and the lecture presents contrasting views for "Gone with the wind" movie. On one hand, the reading critised the movie for racism, the lecturer backs up the film saying that the movie was not actually racist. She also concludes her claim by giving relevant evidences.
The lecturer believes that although the movie depicted the southern family fighting for their right to own and degrade African American, it never romanticized the South.
It never said Southern family were right in doing so. Even though, the reading decries the film for showchasing the civil war to encourage slavery, lecturer defends the film on the this matter.
Next, she talks about how Mammy-Scarlette's maid. Despite not having a first name in the movie, she was a rich figure-reticent and protective of her loved ones. This view of the lecturer contrasts the reading's criticism.
Finally, she brings out the character Butterfly McQueen and her extraordinary performance. Although, the reading painted an embarrasing picture of her as dim-witted and hysterical, the lecturer highlights on the fearless portrayal of her in the movie and how her acting inspired the black women and increased job oppurtunies for them in the initial hollywood.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 178, Rule ID: DT_DT[2]
Message: Maybe you need to remove the second determiner so that only 'the' or 'this' is left.
Suggestion: the; this
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Line 6, column 201, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'readings'' or 'reading's'?
Suggestion: readings'; reading's
...This view of the lecturer contrasts the readings criticism. Finally, she brings out t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 19.0 30.3222958057 63% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1053.0 1373.03311258 77% => OK
No of words: 197.0 270.72406181 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34517766497 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 4.04702891845 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8661105002 2.5805825403 111% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 145.348785872 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.619289340102 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 311.4 419.366225166 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 62.3725146079 49.2860985944 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7272727273 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.9090909091 21.698381199 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.54545454545 7.06452816374 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0816989834962 0.272083759551 30% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0320313849727 0.0996497079465 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0368941547891 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0477108844344 0.162205337803 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339267794806 0.0443174109184 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.45 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => 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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