Meanwhile, the main part of Ryzhov's cavalry remained static on the southern slopes of the Causeway Heights, some 800 yards (~ 730 m ) from Scarlett's Heavy Brigade still moving south-east in the South Valley.

* Katie Scarlett ( O ' Hara ) Hamilton Kennedy Butler: The protagonist of the novel, Scarlett's forthright Irish blood is always at variance with the French teachings of style from her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

In the course of the novel, Rhett becomes increasingly enamored with Scarlett's sheer will to survive in the chaos surrounding the war.

Scarlett's bad belle traits, her deceitfulness, shrewdness, manipulativeness, and superficiality, in contrast to Melanie's good belle traits, trust, self-sacrifice, and loyalty, enable Scarlett to survive in the post-war South, and pursue her main interest, making money.

It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarlett's mother is dead, her sisters are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house.

Thereafter Frank succumbs to Scarlett's feminine charms and he marries her two weeks later knowing he has done " something romantic and exciting for the first time in his life.

Suddenly Scarlett's eyes fill with tears and Ashley holds her head against his chest.

She wonders if Rhett will kiss her, but to Scarlett's irritation, he does not.

Frank is unable to comprehend Scarlett's fears and her desperate struggle for survival after the war.

* Mammy: Scarlett's nurse from birth, Mammy is a slave who originally belonged to Scarlett's grandmother, and raised her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

* Ellen ( Robillard ) O ' Hara: Scarlett's gracious mother of French ancestry, Ellen married Gerald O ' Hara, who was 28 years her senior, after her true love, Phillipe Robillard, was killed in a bar fight.

After the War, Scarlett's character hardens, when she is burdened by her family, servants, the Wilkes family, and the fear of homelessness and starvation.

When he finally receives Scarlett's love, it is too late to salvage the love he once had for her, so he leaves her with his famous parting shot: " My dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett's understanding of human nature extends to children as well, and he is a much better parent to Scarlett's children from her previous marriages than she is herself ; he has a particular affinity with her son Wade, even before Wade is his stepson.

After her son is born, Melanie and Scarlett make a difficult, dangerous journey to Scarlett's home Tara.

The Wilkes move to Atlanta again, with their little boy, at Scarlett's insistence that Ashley come work in her saw mill.

Melanie refuses to believe that there is anything wrong between her husband and ' sister ', and saves Scarlett's reputation by graciously asking her to co-hostess Ashley's birthday party that night.

For the first and only time in many years, Snake Eyes spoke Scarlett's name, and she woke from her coma, ultimately returning to active duty.

Scarlett's grandfather offers Scarlett his entire inheritance if she will remain with him in Savannah until his death and avoid all contact with her father's side of the family.

When one of the soldiers is prevented, by his commanding officer, from taking a gilded sword that once belonged to Scarlett's long-dead father-in-law and intended for her little boy Wade Hamilton ( the officer is himself a veteran of the same campaigns as the sword's former owner ), the thwarted Yankee soldier expresses his indignation by secretly setting a wing of the house on fire as the Yankees are leaving.

He, along with India Wilkes, witnesses Scarlett's embrace with Ashley one day at the mill.

With Rhett's " swarthy face " juxtaposed against Scarlett's " magnolia-white skin ", the two white protagonists are a metaphor for an interracial couple, and their romance represents racial conflict.

Rhett and Scarlett's bedroom scene ( Chapter 54 ) is often read as a rape that was meant to suggest Reconstruction fear of black on white rape in the South.

In Atlanta, Scarlett's spirits revive and she is busy with hospital work and sewing circles for the Confederate army.

As she is leaving the jailhouse, Scarlett runs into Frank Kennedy, who is betrothed to Scarlett's sister, Suellen, and running a store in Atlanta.

* Captain Rhett K. Butler: Scarlett's admirer and third husband, Rhett is often publicly shunned for his scandalous behavior and sometimes accepted for his charm.

* Archie: An ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is imprisoned for the murder of his adulterous wife, he is taken in by Melanie and then later became Scarlett's coach driver.

Cathleen Calvert was young Scarlett's friend.

* Charles Hamilton: Melanie Wilkes ' brother and Scarlett's first husband, Charles is a shy and loving boy.

* Frank Kennedy: Suellen O ' Hara's former fiancé and Scarlett's second husband, Frank is an unattractive older man.

He is " shot through the head ", according to Rhett Butler, while attempting to defend Scarlett's honor after she is attacked.

* Caroline Irene (" Carreen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's youngest sister, who also became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.

* Gerald O ' Hara: Scarlett's Irish father and an excellent horseman, Gerald is sometimes seen leaping fences on his horse while intoxicated, which eventually leads to his death.

* Susan Elinor (" Suellen ") O ' Hara: Scarlett's middle sister, who became sickened by typhoid during the Battle of Atlanta.

* Big Sam: A strong, husky, hardworking field slave who in post-war lawlessness comes to Scarlett's rescue from would-be merciless thieves.

High motivation towards higher education must start early enough so that by the time the boy or girl reaches grade 9 he or she has at least developed those basic skills which are essential for academic work.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

while it is difficult to know the motivation of the adapter, we can reckon that from his point of view an early staging of The Shrew might have revealed an overly wrought play from a writer trying to establish himself but challenging too far the current ideas of popular comedy.

In his book about the history of film editing, Don Fairservice credits The Italians director, Reginald Barker, for his early use of editing to maintain story continuity and for his use of multidirectional camera positioning and variable framing to emphasize character development and psychological motivation rather than plot.

" The unbounded spread of the Internet in the early 1990s and the consequent rapid growth of high technology culture had made cyberpunk increasingly relevant, and this was a primary motivation for Sony Pictures's decision to fund the project in the tens of millions.

This second motivation was especially important in the early stages of the Restoration as a means to keep domains from joining the Tokugawa remnant in the Boshin War.

Many early theories suggested that self-esteem is a basic human need or motivation.

If viewed as a learning strategy, wherein the student uses the target language as much as possible but reverts to their native language for any element of an utterance that they are unable to produce in the target language ( as, e. g., in Wolfgang Butzkamm's concept of enlightened monolingualism ), then it has the advantages that it encourages fluency development and motivation and a sense of accomplishment by enabling the student to discuss topics of interest to him or her early in the learning process — before requisite vocabulary has been memorized.

The possibility of securing an early berth for the Olympic Games, thus avoiding extraneous and in some cases tight continental qualification procedures, became a consistent motivation for the national federations to participate in the World Cup.

Intrinsic motivation has been studied since the early 1970s.

However, government officials have cited the increasing accident death rate in the early 1960s as the principal motivation, with the exploits of the AC Cars team merely highlighting the point.

Overexploitation of sea cucumber stocks in many parts of the world, provided motivation for the development of sea cucumber aquaculture in the early 1980s.

The death of Bea's teenage daughter Debbie ( Cassandra Lehman ) from a heroin overdose not only explained her motivation for killing her husband on her release early in the series, but also explained Bea's uncompromising hatred of drug offenders and clouded judgement whenever children were involved.

During this period of queercore in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, many of the punk rock bands involved were not necessarily queer but their ethics were motivation for supporting this movement.

During the early phases of perestroika, when private enterprise was introduced cautiously, Komsomol was given privileges with respect to initiating businesses, with the motivation of giving youth a better chance.

Khan was very attached to his parents as a child and describes their early deaths as a turning point in his life and as his biggest motivation for hard work.

The motivation for the specific sign conventions of thermodynamics comes from early development of heat engines.

Commenced by the National Education Association in early March 1998, Read Across America was created to stimulate reading motivation and awareness.

" However, the idea that mere money was Luthor's chief motivation for crime was undermined as early as 1961.

Indeed, one early motivation for the GNU Scientific Library was that a free library was in part needed as a substitute for Numerical Recipes.

Although he had enjoyed another top-three placing in the club Best & Fairest award at the end of the 1990 AFL season, the previous year was also marred by injury, dipping motivation, and personal issues – Ablett separating from his wife, Sue, early in January.

Gordon suspects early on that Bruce Wayne may be Batman, though he never follows up on his suspicions, although Sarah Essen is correct in her suspicions, even guessing Bruce's motivation.

Saadat Hasan Manto received his early education at Muslim High School in Amritsar, but he remained a misfit throughout in school years, rapidly losing motivation in studies, ending up failing twice in matriculation.

Part of Vidar Vaaer's motivation for ending Ildjarn was due to his 4-track recorder breaking ( the same 4-track recorder used during Emperor's early days as Thou Shalt Suffer ).