Green Gables

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A classical book called Anne of Green Gables, written by L.M. Montgomery depicted a story about an orphan who lived at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert were siblings who decided they wanted to raise a boy to work on their farm. They asked a friend who was already going to get an orphan child to pick them up an 11 year old boy. Matthew Cuthbert went the train station to pick him up. When he arrived, he was flabbergasted to see there was a young girl waiting for him instead of a boy. Her name was Anne Shirley and she had red hair and freckles but she was not very happy about that. She loved asking many questions and talking. Anne was just excited to be going to Green Gables. Marilla was not too pleased that they …show more content…

She even became bosom friends with a girl her age named Diana. Throughout the book Anne Shirley had quite an experience at Green Gables because she used her imagination more than anything, her red hair embodied the way she acted and felt about herself, and she was not like everyone else. First of all, Anne had a wild imagination unlike others. Matthew and Anne traveled to Green Gables and he was pointing out all of the different places and bodies of water to Anne. Whenever a name sounded too dull for Anne’s likings she would imagine a better suiting name for it. For example, Anne said “But they shouldn’t call that lovely place the Avenue. There is no meaning in a name like that. They should call it—let me see—the White Way of Delight” (Montgomery 18). This showed how Anne imagined the Avenue and what it was like. When Matthew Cuthbert was first took Anne home, she was asking him all sorts of questions and talking about the nature around him. “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half …show more content…

It was portrayed when a boy in Anne’s class named Gilbert teased her about her hair and she became very enraged. “Gilbert reached across the aisle, picked up the end of Anne’s long red braid, held it out at arm’s length and said in a piercing whisper, “Carrots! Carrots!”… Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert’s head” (Montgomery 111). This showed how sensitive Anne was about her hair and that she really despised it. This quote really depicted how Anne felt, “Anne Shirley, what have you done to your hair? Why, it’s green!” (Montgomery 216). She did not like the color of her hair so she decided to dye it and it ended out turning out bad. Anne always said, “You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. People who haven’t red hair don’t know what the trouble is” (Montgomery 56). Anne was convinced that red hair tempted her to act badly more easily than others. The way she despised her hair and complained about it every chance she had really described Anne at the beginning of the book. Anne did not think that the Cuthbert’s wanted her. She was upset because they wanted a boy but they received her instead. She thought that she was not good enough for them like her hair was not good enough for her. This showed that Anne disliked the way she was. She had not had a proper family until living with the Cuthbert’s, so she had not been loved properly until then. Towards the end of the book Anne started to like her hair the way

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