Gone With The Wind
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General) North American (US South)Transcript
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This has Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Chapter one. I will be demonstrating my ability to read in a standard American accent as well as a general Southeastern American accent. It was for this precise reason that Stewart and Brent were idling on the porch of Terra this April afternoon. They had just been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years, and their older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with them because they refused to remain at an institution where the twins were not welcome. Stewart and Brent considered their latest expulsion of fine joke, and Scarlett, who had not willingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy of the Year before, thought it just as amusing as they did. I know you two don't care about being expelled or Tom either, she said. But what about Boyd? He's kind of set on getting an education, and you two have pulled him out of the University of Virginia and Alabama and South Carolina, and now Georgia. I'll never get finished at this rate. Oh, he can read Law and Judge Palmer Lease office over and favorable, answered Brent carelessly. Besides, it don't matter much. We'd have had to come home before the term was out anyway. Why the war Goose? The war is going to start any day and you don't suppose any of us would stay in college with the war going on, do you? You know there isn't gonna be any war, said Scarlet Board. It's all just talk. Why Ashley Wilkes and his father told Pa just last week that our commissioners in Washington would come to to an amicable agreement with Mr Lincoln about the Confederacy. And anyway, the Yankees are too scared of us to fight. There won't be any war, and I'm tired of hearing about it. Not going to be any war, cried the Twins indignantly as though they had been defrauded. Why, honey, of course. There's going to be a war, said Stuart, The Yankees maybe scared of us. But after the way General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Santa day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand branded as cowards before the whole world. Why the Confederacy? Scarlet made a mouth of board impatience. If you say war just once more, I'll go into the house and shut the door. I've never gotten so tired of any one word in my life is War, unless it's secession, Pa. Talks wore morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come to see him shout about Fort Sumpter and States' rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream. And that's all the boys talk about to that, and they're old. True, there hasn't been any fun at any party this spring because the boys can't talk about anything else. I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded. Or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too. If you say war again, I'll go in the house.