  the wind done gone (2001) is the first novel written by alice randall. it was a bestselling historical novel that tells an alternative account of the story in the american novel gone with the wind (1936) by margaret mitchell. while the story of gone with the wind focuses on the life of a wealthy slave owner, scarlett o'hara, the wind done gone tells the story of the life of one of her slaves, cynara, during the same time period and events. the title is an african american vernacular english version of the original's title. cynara's name comes from the ernest dowson poem non sum qualÃ­s eram bonae sub regno cynarae, a line from which ("i have forgot much, cynara! gone with the wind") was the origin of mitchell's novel's title as well. == plot summary == gone with the wind revolves around o'hara, a pampered southern woman, who lives through the american civil war and reconstruction. the wind done gone is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of cynara, a mulatto slave on scarlett's plantation and the daughter of scarlett's father and mammy. sold from the o'haras, cynara eventually makes her way back to atlanta and becomes the mistress of a white businessman. she later leaves him for a black aspiring politician, eventually moving with him to reconstruction washington, d.c. ==characters== * cynara â the narrator of the novel, the recently freed slave is the daughter of white plantation owner planter and his slave mammy. she has a lifelong rivalry with her half-sister other, sparked by jealousy that mammy paid more attention to the white baby. they both came to love r. * mammy - cynara's mother and other's wet nurse, mammy doted on other while neglecting her own daughter. her masters believe she is a loyal slave, but the other slaves suspect that she killed lady and planter's male childrenâgiven to her to nurseâso that planter would be cotton farm's last white master. her real name, pallas, is so rarely used that her daughter didn't learn it until after her death. a clear parallel to gone with the wind 's mammy, she is the only major character called by
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