Anne of Green Gables is something I picked up from a street store not knowing how well known it was for its creativity, simplicity, innocence and for its Anne. If you were a small girl, you''''d find yourself wanting to be like Anne. If you were older, you''''d probably wish you were like Anne. Or else, if you had an imagination, you''''d find you were always like Anne!
It’s the kind of book which takes you to your childhood days; almost every child has an imagination. Anne enters the book announcing, herself, possessing what made her survive in all the lonely and orphaned childhood she had to go through - an imagination. Her using strong words that seem too dramatic coming from a little girl, her getting over excited and setting her heart on small things she look forward to, all make us connect so well with the girl that at the end we''''d feel sad it all got over.
Anne makes long speeches and moves from chapter to chapter making new mistakes since she "doesn’t make the same mistake twice". All the scrapes that she lands into and all the apologies and stories she comes up with to cover them up makes her dearer to the reader. However, as Anne grows older, she talks less and lets her
imagination live within her not letting it out to the other characters or the readers much, while her ambition keeps taking her to bigger heights in life.
Anne''''s temper and unjustified grudge against Gilbert Blythe are 2 things which can come to something against the character but that’s what makes her more real; no one is an angel. Diana Barry, Marilla, Matthew, Mrs. Allan, Ms Stacy, Mrs. Lynde and many others become characters we seem to know in real life as Anne talks and connect to each of them.
If you have always imagined a friend you could talk to when you walked alone or sat alone, if you have given names to trees and lakes and ponds, if you keep losing yourself in dreams and thoughts, you are no different from Anne Shirley – that’s Anne with an ‘e’.
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