ANNE
OF GREEN GABLES
DATI EDITORIALI
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Italian
title: Anna dai capelli rossi
Writer:
Lucy
Mount Montgomery
PLACES
Orphan asylum, Prince
Edward Island, Avolnea, Bright River station, train, White Way of Delight, Lake
of Shaning Waters, Green Gables, east chambre on the east.
MAIN CHARACTERS
Anne Shirley, Matthew
Cuthbert, Marilla Cuthbert, Mrs. Spencer, .
PLOT
Matthew
and Marilla Cuthbert are two siblings who live in Canada, Avolnea, Prince
Edward Island.
They
live alone, far from the lively village, in Green Gables farm.
Matthew
Cuthbert is a silent, shy man of about sixty.
Marilla
Cuthbert is a bit younger and very different.
She’s
a tall, thin, rigid and brousque woman.
She
can’t stay doing nothing and she doesn’t care about imaginatings and dreams or
what people think of her.
Everything
went very well when they were younger and stronger, but now they’re getting
older and Matthew is too old to keep care all by himself of the farm.
So,
after a lot of talking, they decide to keep a little boy from an asylum, who
will help Matthew with the matters of the farm.
When
the day of boy’s coming arrives, Matthew goes to the station to keep him home.
When
he arrives, he descovers there’s been a mistake: from the asylum hasn’t came a
boy, but a girl!
Matthew’s
shocked: what should he do?
He
has to think fast: he’s too kind-hearted to let the girl in the station, so he
finally decides to keep her with him.
During
the drive forward her new home, Anne Shirley – this is the girl’s name – tells
Matthew about herself, her dreams and her hopes.
When
they arrive to Green Gables, Marilla is surprised: they wanted a boy, not a girl!
She
doesn’t know what she should do, she’s never had children and so she tells poor
Anne they don’t want her and that she’ll return to the asylum.
Anne
is in the dephts of dispair and burns in tears.
Marilla
and Matthew talk about what to do with the unwelcome orphan: Matthew’d like to
keep her, but Marilla wanna send her back to the asylum and keep a boy.
The
next day Anne tells Marilla the story of her life.
Her
parents died when she was a newborn, and she lived her all life in different
families which didn’t want her and treated her badly.
She
had been finally entrusted in an asylum, and she thought that she’d never been
adopted when she had been told that a family wanted her.
That
family was, of course, Marilla and Matthew’s one.
Even
if Marilla’s heart’s old and rusty, she’s really touched by Anne’s speech: she
finally decides that Anne can stay with them.
Even
if Anne is very willing to be the best girl in the world, like every child
she’s got faults: for example she always forgets things and puts herself in
troubles.
Anne
starts to go to the Sunday school, too, but she doesn’t like it at all: her
companions never speak with her and think her crazy and the teacher is a
boring, silly woman.
One
of Anne’s greatest wishes is having a bosom friend.
When
she meets Diana, a little, pretty girl of her same age, she understands at once
that they will be great friends.
Anne
starts to go to school, too, and there she knows Gilbert, a fourteen years old
boy which makes fun of her because of her red hair.
Feeling
hurted, Anne solemnly swears she’ll never talk with him again, but there’s
something, between them, which could become a strong feeling…
What
will happen to Anne, throughout the years?
If
you wanna know it, read the rest of this story….
PERSONAL
COMMENT
I liked this book
very much.
I loved it when I
read it as a child and I liked it better when I read it in English this year.
It’s a powerful,
funny, simple and well-written story, whose characters could be found in
everyday’s life, with their faults and their qualities, with their mistakes and
their jokes, with their tears and their smiles, with their laughters, their
feelings, their loves, hates, fears, sorrows and strong friendships.
Every character’s got
thoughts, a heart and feeling of his own, which ar special and touching with
their differences.
I liked this book
‘cause I smiled, cried, suffered and laughted at once.
There are great
differences between the chapters: some are touching, other are funny, others
are tender or sorrowful.
I liked Anne and
Gilbert more than the others characters, because of their being so different
and so similar at once.
They push and pull
like a magnet do: they can’t live without the other, but when they’re together
they quarrel.
This book is
expecially for kids, but I think adults should read it, too: everybody should
learn by Anne’s hope and faith in life and love, and learn to see the beauty of
what we are sorrounded from.
I learnt a lot of
things by this story and think that Anne’s a woman we all should learn
something from.
