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 states that the award winning film 'Gone With the Wind' has rasict undertones which makes it embarrasing for the film industry as well as the people who watch the film. However, the professor contradicts this by saying that the movie, instead of being rasict, displays timeless romance, feminism and was also instrumental in providing job opportunities to African American actors.
To start with, the reading passage suggests that Scarlett's maid, Mammy, has not been given any name. Professor refutes this discrimination by stating that Mammy has been portrayed to be a smart, rich and complex character. She is unfraid to speak up her mind and is protective of her loved ones. The professor even goes on to say that the actress portraying her role, went on to win the best supporting actress award, defeating her white counterpart.
Moreover, according to the passage, McQueen is known to be dim witted and even gets slapped, which supports the rasict theory. But the professor points out that McQueen is deliberately shown rebellious. She is discontented to be a slave and is unafraid to disobey.
Finally, the passage claims that the Hollywood films had many embarrasing things in their early days. However, the professor explains that this movie provided a lot of job opportunities to black actors and actresses and promoted talent instead of discriminating between the white people and African Americans.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 37, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: award-winning
The reading passage states that the award winning film Gone With the Wind has rasict unde...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, moreover, so, well, as well as, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1206.0 1373.03311258 88% => OK
No of words: 231.0 270.72406181 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22077922078 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81493818561 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 145.348785872 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619047619048 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 356.4 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4929185535 49.2860985944 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.636363636 110.228320801 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 21.698381199 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72727272727 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.116241987233 0.272083759551 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0396445003242 0.0996497079465 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0374413490942 0.0662205650399 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0686046888109 0.162205337803 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454010492322 0.0443174109184 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.42419426049 109% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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