As God As My Witness

My favorite movie is also my favorite book. If you like historical romance, I very strongly suggest you read Gone With The Wind. My favorite line out of both the movie and book is: "As God as my witness, they're not going to lick me. As God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again. No nor will my foe. As God as my witness, if I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill. As God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again." This statement is made by Scarlett O'Hara, who, as a Southern Belle, is being forced to desert everything she has ever known to survive the newly created world in which she was thrust into like a baby who has yet to learn to walk. As a 16-year-old, she was forced endure Civil War. As the war progresses, she loses people dear to her heart, a husband, mother, childhood friends, and she mentally loses a father. She is a head-strong rebel girl, who, with the help of one Rhett Butler, manages to get all of Atlanta City talking about her. In the early years of the war, she, at 16, has a baby, which she dreadfully ignores, though, like most children, she, in his mind, is still his loving mother. She battles Yangees, taxes, Carpetbaggers, and many more problems. She is convinced that no matter what, she'll never want or starve again. She marries once for money, to Frank Kennedy, a bashful old sheep who will give her anything she wants. She buys a mill, works it well, then gets pregnant, however, this does little to stop her. As it was with women of the South in times as these, she was to stay indoors, behind closed windows, however, she does anything but. She runs all over Atlanta with Rhett, until her father dies. She convinces Ashley, her childhood love who she doesn't want to get over, to bring himself, his wife, and their child to Atlanta, where he tries to help her run the mill in the later days of her pregnancy when Frank and her Aunt Pittypat convince her to stay in. Melanie, who longs to have more children, but whose hips are to slender to give birth, helps Scarlett through every step of her, as Scarlett calls it, inconvience. Scarlett, who feels babies are things that just get in the way and ruin her figure, thinks this foolish and overly sentimental. Scarlett O'Hara, as she still feels her name should be, is more than convinced that she will never look back to the world she left behind in uncaring times. After all, you go into the future with a rear-view mirror.