Gilbert The Protagonist

I believe in being like Gilbert Blythe. He is the antagonist in Anne of Green Gables. Anne of Green Gables is basically the tale of an eleven year old redheaded orphan girl who is mistakenly brought to an elderly brother and sister who live in Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, Canada in a house called Green Gables. Which follows her life until she is sixteen.My aim in sixth grade was to be Gilbert Blythe. Crazy, right? Well right away I realized there were a few things wrong with that. I wasn’t a boy, I was not handsome, and I could never pull off the mix between confidence, humility, and modesty that he does. So instead I started paying attention to his motives and actions that I could infer from his interactions with other characters hoping

Anne, being very sensitive about her red hair hits him over the head with a slate. That’s pretty bad behavior on both sides, but what always made Gilbert better in my eyes was the fact that he apologized That is a person who knows when when he's done wrong. So, step one to being like Gilbert Blythe is to take responsibility for your actions.

During much of the rest of the novel Anne Shirley and he try to best each other in school. Whether it be reading, writing, or the bane of Anne’s existence Geometry they want to be the best. Step two to being Gilbert has two parts: part a is to be competitive; part b is to be a good sport when you lose.

Probably the most climactic scene in the novel in which he takes part is when Anne and her friends want to reenact a scene in The Lily Maid. This involved a small rowboat and a lake. Anne was Elaine and so had to float to the other side of the pond pretending to be dead this was problematic as the boat had sprung a leak halfway there, and since she could not swim she was sure to die. She passed by some wood piles and clung to them until someone could rescue her. And who was that knight in shining armor? Gilbert Blythe. He’s a little incredulous, but rows her to shore. Step three: Be heroic, but don’t ask anything in