Anne of Green Gables

"I'm sorry I was late," he said shyly... "Give me your bag."

"Oh, I can carry it," the child responded cheerfully. "It isn't heavy. I've got all my worldly goods in it, but it isn't heavy. And if it isn't carried in just a certain way the handle pulls out--so I'd better keep it because I know the exact knack of it. It's an extremely old carpet-bag. Oh, I'm very glad you've come, even if it would have been nice to sleep in a wild cherry-tree...

The child put out her hand and broke off a branch of wild plum that brushed against the side of the buggy.

"Isn't that beautiful? What did that tree, leaning out from the bank, all white and lacy, make you think of?" she asked.

"Well now, I dunno," said Matthew.

"Why, a bride, of course--a bride all in white with a lovely misty veil. I've never seen one, but I can imagine what she would look like. I don't ever expect to be a bride myself. I'm so homely nobody will ever want to marry me-- unless it might be a foreign missionary. I suppose a foreign missionary mightn't be very particular. But I do hope that some day I shall have a white dress. That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss. I just love pretty clothes.

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 Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, ch. 2

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    Oh Anne. She is so simple, cute, and care-free. She does not care that she knows nothing of the people who are adopting her, she just imagines them to be the nicest people ever. She has so little, but she has so much. She is so full of thankfulness despite being treated badly in the orphanage. Everything she sees is the most beautiful thing to her. She only can have a favorite something for thirty seconds before it changes. She is pretty dramatic too, which is where we are similar. That and her innocence.
   I also love Matthew's cool reaction to Anne. He is so introverted. Here he wanted a boy, bu he gets a girl. Does he complain? Not even in his thoughts. He accepts Anne and enjoys her constant chatter. He does not care that she is not beautiful, in fact, he probably likes that she is more of a tomboy.
    Montgomery was such a talented writer. She had the perfect blend of description and imagery along with dialogue. The reader cannot help but fall in love with the characters Montgomery wants them to love and hate the ones she wants them to hate. I love Anne of Green Gables.

                                                                                                                                                  ~Alayna~