The book "Jubilee" by Margaret Walker, and the movie, "Gone with Wind", based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, both take place during slavery, the Civil War, and reconstruction. The book and movie take place in the same time period, but show different views of those times. Four themes emerge in these two novels, the transformation of Southern society, the overcoming of adversity with willpower, the importance of land, and finally the intelligence and capabilities of woman. These four themes best describe the two novels.
             In the book, "Jubilee" the South's society changes dramatically. The South was a place where land was important and where crops prospered. There were beautiful fields to show how strong the country was. Southerners were more famous for how many slaves they owned, as it contained a slave owning states. This meant the plantation owners could own slaves like property. This all changed during and after the Civil War. Everything that was beautiful went dark due to all the damages the war caused. The land died off due to all the slaves that were being sent to fight for the war. When there were no slaves to help keep the land in good shape, the South lost a lot of crops, including cotton which was there biggest crop. The South changed more when the Ku Klux Klan emerged. Slavery was keeping the slaves alive and since it was gone after the war they had no one left to protect them.
             Willpower to overcome adversities is shown by slaves in the book, "Jubilee". Vryr is someone who overcomes so many adversities. She had to deal with the fact her own slave owner was her father, and he never acknowledged that or even attempted to. Vyry had to deal with the harassments Big Missy gave her while she was a young slave in her house. Big Missy gave everyone a hard time but more to Vryr because she was the daughter of the slave owner, and she despised that. Vyry also had to deal with the fact she ...