Dear group members, I am pretty interested in the book called "Gone with the wind" by Margaret Mitchell and its sequel "Scarlett" by Alexandra Ripley. You can also find the movie and episodes of them. So I would like to write a fanfiction of my favorite books. The following are some other fanfictions that are relate to mine and also a little bit of my review. Thank you for your time.
1. Sleeping walk
This fan fiction gives lots of description of the characters’ inner world. The story continues the misunderstanding between the main character Rhett and Scarlett. The story deeply describes the feeling of losing their unborn child which the author of “Gone with the wind” didn’t concentrate on. It explores the softness within both Rhett and Scarlett. The characteristic had been changed a little bit. Such as: Scarlett flooded her tears out in front of Rhett. However, in the original story Scarlett would always avoid from crying by convincing herself “tomorrow is another day” and she always keeps herself strong and almost adamant.
2. She belongs to me
This fanfic borrows the plot from the original that Rhett was “besotted with his child” and Scarlett was even jealous her own child sometimes. The settings are the same, and even the dialect was tried to maintain as same as the original story when Mammy was talking to Scarlett. There are lots of conversations between Rhett and Scarlett. Although the conversations sounds the two main characters were trying to hurt each other, they still love each other. It is just that neither of them would like to express the feeling. At the end of the fanfic, Scarlett said “Besides, honey I belong to you” sounds a bit abrupt as Scarlett never thought she belongs to anyone. If she thinks she belongs to Rhett, there wouldn’t be so much conflict and misunderstanding between them. However, it won’t degrade the whole article. Good fanfic after all.
3. Returning
This is a description of Rhett’s returning to their house in Peachtree Street as had promised Scarlet to keep the gossip down. It continues the plot and concentrate on Rhett’s feeling where as the original story has lots of descriptions of Scarlett’s feeling. It shows Rhett’s love for Scarlett is always although he left her. Rhett’s feeling is a mystery in the original. Readers can only tell his feeling from the descriptions of his facial expression such as: raised eyebrows, determined eyes, corner of his mouth were down.
4. Always Scarlett
This fanfic add a happy ending for the two main characters. It has four reviews and is in favour with all of them. Scarlett and Rhett had both learnt from their previous mistakes in their marriage. In this fanfic they both seemed start to think from each other’s perspective and try to understand each other. There are fine descriptions of characters’ interior monologue. Conversations between Scarlett and Rhett suit their characteristics. However it sounds a bit too fast to me that the story comes to its ending. The two main characters had been misunderstood each other since they first met. Therefore, I believe there should be some drama for their reunion too.
5. Unravel
This is a terrific fanfic. It has 102 reviews which show how well approved by readers. It keeps the same setting and characters and even maintains their characteristics. There are fine descriptions of the characters. In this fanfic Rhett still tease Scarlett about her love to Ashley Wilkes. It’s actually his own way of getting Scarllet’s attention. His love for Scarlett was from the first time they met, but he was afraid to show it because he knew Scarlett doesn’t love him. This fanfic also has Melanie another main character of Gone with the wind. She is still the most warm hearted, gentle but determined lady in here. She invited Rhett the most unwelcomed one to the Christmas party in her house which needed lots of courage. She is an important figure who can not be neglected in both the original story and the fanfic although she possessed small sections.
6. Seven years later
This is another popular fanfic which continues the story to the next generation. Wade and Ella both seemed have some of their mother Scarlett’s characteristics which are opposite to the original story. Some new characters are added into the story.
7. A new life
This is the continuing story for sequel of Gone with the wind. The sequel is called “Scarlett” which has a happy ending for Rhett and Scarlett and also gives them another baby called Cat. This fanfic describes their life after escape from the tower.
8. Gone with the wind
This is a rewrite of the story that changes the setting to 21st century. Some of the linguistic features are changed as well. The language is not restrained anymore. The expression of love and interest are straight forward.
9. The train
This is Rhett side of the story what happened after he told Scarlett that he is going to leave her. It keeps the sad ending for the story. However, it can be easily continued with after his arrival of Charleston.
10. The final chapter
This is an additional chapter added to the ending. Basically describes how Rhett remembered their marriage. This fanfic has changed the characteristics of Rhett and Scarlett. Rhett is strong and clever but never violent in the original story. He is a real gentle man but different from ordinary people. Scarlett is clever and strong too. She never shows her weakness or tears in front of people. However, this fanfic changed them all.
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