Anne of Green Gables is the story of a young orphan girl, Anne, who is mistakenly delivered to a couple looking to adopt a boy for work. After the couple meets Anne, they decide to keep her. Anne soon makes her home on the farm called Green Gables, and her spirited nature charms the couple, who begin to see her as a daughter. Anne struggles to adapt to life in Avonlea and often finds herself in conflict with her adoptive mother and other local women, as she has trouble acting like a “proper lady” and getting to people’s high expectations. After many years of school, while attending the academy, Anne earns the Avery Scholarship, awarding her money to fund her tuition for a four-year college. But then, Matthew died. Anne chose to teacher at home instead. After hearing of Anne’s situation, Gilbert sacrifices his job as a teacher too. Anne and Gilbert become close friends and Anne looks forward to her future.
One element very important throughout the book is family love. Anne experienced broken family and foster family. First, Anne experienced death in family. This is very important to children because death makes people depressed. Children will remember death for his or her whole childhood. Anne is optimistic and she faces family death straightly. Then, she began her life in a foster family. Before Marilla and Matthew adopted Anne, her life was miserable in the orphanage. Later, she slowly started to have a sense of belonging, and got love, which had been missed for a long time. At last, she had love and care from a family foster family. This proves that love between family members sometimes don’t need blood to connect.
Another obvious feature of the book is Anne’s unique imagination. Anne’s imagination helped her a lot. First, it helped her face problems. imagination keeps people optimistic. Anne is grateful of many things and she uses her imagination when she is unhappy. She thinks of many sad things positively which helps her face problems. Also, imagination lets her have a positive aspect. For example, it lets Anne forget unhappy things quickly and helps to set a new target in life. At last, Anne balances romance and reality. If people stay in their imagination all the time, they will forget about true life. So, this means people should imagine things not all the time, which helps let people forget about the real cruel life. Anne imagination helped her a lot over the story.
The last and most important theme of this book is friendship. Anne has two friends, one is her very best friend, Diana, the other is Gilbert, they became from rival to friends. In the whole book, Diana showed her friendship with Anne because they played together, talked together and worked together. She never hides the like to Anne. Different to Gilbert, they met because Gilbert called Anne “carrot” to get her attention. But after this, Gilbert tried many times to apologize with Anne, which didn’t work. Gilbert respected Anne, helped Anne many times, and sacrificed himself for Anne. Anne is touched from his actions and finally became friends with him. There are many kinds of friendship in the world, some starts from the beginning, some starts way more later, but they are all a kind of relationship.
Overall, there are many themes in the book Anne of Green Gables. First, family love. Anne experienced broken family and foster family, but her life still went on bravely. Second, imagination. This helped her keep optimistic, have a positive aspect and balance romance to reality. Last but not least, friendship. Anne had two friends one was a friend with her from the beginning, the other changed from a rival to friend. This lets Anne have different thoughts. These themes helped Anne overcome her bad life and start a new beginning.
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