Gone With the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell , it is a sweeping, romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy. In particular Gone With the Wind focuses on the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong Southern belle, who survives the hardships of the war and afterwards manages to establish a successful business by capitalizing on the struggle to rebuild the South during the Civil War. The underlying focus in Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is that only those who are born survivors will really prosper during times of true hardship.
Who are born survivors? Born survivors are those who will do anything to survive, at any cost and who can bear everything hard and painstaking to survive: they will get down in the dirt and work like a dog just for a day's meal; they will take something from someone else just so that they and their own can live. Thesepeople may have social advantages or they may be poor farmers. The key element in their make-up is that they want to survive, they need to survive. Not only do these people live, they prosper as well. They take whatever they can find and mold it into something that will help them get ahead in life. These are the born survivors.

1.Who are born survivors?
2.Most of the Southern gentlemen in Gone With the Wind are not born survivors.
3.In the story, When Scarlett o’Hara was faced with the devastation of her estate by the civil war which hit the mark, She vowed her famous line, "As God as my witness I will never be hungry again."
4.Another example of a born survivor is Rhett Butler.