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 c

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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 article states that movie called 'Gone with the Wind' was proved to be among the most immportant movie and this movie won many record breaking awards. However, this film increasingly comes under critisism of racism in the movie and its repuration has fallen and gives three reasons of support. However, professors states that this movies is very important for cinema. He gives an example of scholars that they suggested that this movies has been largest seen movie around the world and refutes all reasons.

First, the reading passage states that main character of film was a slave owner whose civilization goes to war to preserve the right to own and degrade African Americans. It also states that life before and during the days of slavery depicted as a golden age. However, the professor refute this reason by saying that south was never right before war. They told that before and during war was a golden age but according to professor, there was no romance in family before war. Also condition of woman became good after war.

Second, the article states that 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 as she slaps Scarlett and potraying as dimwittedness and age-old negative stereotype. However, the professor refute this by saying that his charater plays important role and prove to be a awarding winning performance. Female character of African Amrican woman won best supproting role award and she played that role with a dignity and heart.

Finally, the reading passage states that because of these reasons, viewers saw that and feel admiration for how far the movie industry come since its infancy and people embarrassed of early days of hollywood films. However, the professor refute this by saying that this movie increase job opportunity of black actors-actress. Many African American became a part of film industry and because of this movie future of African American people changed.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 22.412803532 165% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 335.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10447761194 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53344041544 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546268656716 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.1125983377 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.0 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3333333333 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 7.06452816374 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.191664789725 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0693352647325 0.0996497079465 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666865557138 0.0662205650399 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115998121997 0.162205337803 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0796508901497 0.0443174109184 180% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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