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Originally Posted by hildea
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It's a long time since I read Huck Finn, but as far as I remember, slavery is portrayed as a bad thing there. In Gone With the Wind, slavery is portrayed as good, the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War is portrayed as bad for both white and black people, and Ku Klux Klan are describes as heroes.
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I don't remember the Klan coming into it at all. Having read it three times, I see it very differently. At the beginning, slavery is just what is, the life Scarlet has grown up in. As the war causes hardships all around, Scarlet develops as a character and the roles of black and white are something she has to think outside of when she tells her sisters to work the farm.
I do remember a scene where some of the husbands are out doing something illegal and one of them gets shot, is that the scene you're thinking of?