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 reading passage and the lecture both discusses about famous 1993 Hollywood film - Gone with the wind. The reading states that the film depicts the rasicm between American and african american people. In the contrast, the lecturer subscribes to the opposite view pointthat there the movie doesn;t showcases any rasicm in the movie.
The first imperative reason stated by reading is that the movie is bolstering the racism by depicting days of slavery as the golden age. Conversely, the lecturer raises the dispute against the former claim made in passage by stating that southern family is never shown to be romantising the slavery.
Secondly, the reading implies that Mammy is not credited enough for her performance whereas the performance of Butter McQueen was well appreciated by the director. On the contrary, the lecturer states that this film cannot be considered to be racist one as it allowed Mammy to showcase her rebilious elements and freely express her discontention towards the slavery.
Moreover, the lecturer substanciates her opinion by stating that this movie had provided job opportunities to several African American people which otherwise was quite difficult at that time.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1010.0 1373.03311258 74% => OK
No of words: 189.0 270.72406181 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34391534392 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68195984072 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.608465608466 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 315.0 419.366225166 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5378319541 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.25 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.625 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.25 7.06452816374 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120799171294 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0552724252559 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0352310803242 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0716101923742 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295112062922 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 30.3222958057 73% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1010.0 1373.03311258 74% => OK
No of words: 189.0 270.72406181 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34391534392 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 4.04702891845 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68195984072 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.608465608466 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 315.0 419.366225166 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.5378319541 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.25 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.625 21.698381199 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.25 7.06452816374 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120799171294 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0552724252559 0.0996497079465 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0352310803242 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0716101923742 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295112062922 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.8541721854 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.0289183223 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.2367328918 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 63.6247240618 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.