Along with the irony of the Confederate army's situation, I find these two people very interesting in the context of the novel, and see a little bit of myself in both these characters. ... Early "stood with legs wide apart, his hands clasped behind his back, heavy in the jaw, his face black and grim." ... It is like he is a little boy when it comes to the war (hopping around in the saddle, patting the horse, slapping his own thigh, gesturing wildly, pointing, grinning. p.317). ... Those that are close to him view him fondly (a lovely adventurous boy, thirty-eight years old and never...

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Charles Hamilton, a quite and shy boy tells Scarlett, "I-I love you...I want to marry you"(109), which is something that probably would not have come out of Charles at that time except for the the confusion in his head. ... All of the blacks were free, but some stayed with their masters because they felt as though that was where they belonged. ... Her novel is intriguing and tells the South's happenings surrouding the Civil War. ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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