Anne is an orphan girl who found for herself a home in Green Gables and in the hearts of the people of Avonlea. For
a girl who has lived almost all her young life in an orphanage, she considers Avonlea a paradise and a haven for her unbridled thoughts. Though thin and frail, she has got a big mouth and a sharp wit that compensated for a
childhood characterized by desertion, poverty and the unmet need to identify with a family of her own. Always kept company by her wild imaginations inspired by her capacity to see the ethereal in simple things, she manages to survive the bitter treats that life sometimes has to offer for a child.
Life in the orphanage is a lot different from the paradise where fate has taken her. This new world provided her the opportunity to hone her talents and to feed her fertile
imagination with the sights and sounds that Prince Edward Island brings. In the story, she makes friends and enemies, and has been known to have a temper as hot as her red hair. A blossoming love between Anne and Gilbert Blythe presents itself to Anne a puzzle which she will figure out in the next books written by L.M. Montgomery to satiate readers who wanted more from Anne. As the story progresses, a healing process of a once dreary childhood takes place, allowing her to live a normal life and to anticipate for herself a future where her most cherished dreams are found waiting for her.
All in all, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of childhood, told in the context of what it means to a child. It is candid enough to present the harsh realities that confront the child but offers hope by depicting its many joys. The book bears witness to the fact that the world belongs to the child’s imagination. If only adults became aware of what the little ones dream about to learn more about themselves, the world will be the child''s haven on earth.