Anne of Green Gables
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ANNE COMES TO GREEN GABLES (Chapter 1-8)
Anne, full of delight, was brought from the train station to green gables, one afternoon at approximately 6:00 pm. Mathew cuthbert picked her up, and boy, could she talk! Ms Spencer (the leader the the Orphan Asylum at which Anne lived at) thought Anne's tongue must have been tied in the middle, as Anne could talk and talk and talk, for an abundance of pages long. After an eight mile road trip through the White Way of Delight (The Avenue) and passed the Lake of Shining Waters (Barry's Pond), Anne and Mathew arrived at home, in which Anne was delighted, as she had always dreamed of living in a home that had a brook near it.
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Anne's heart was full of sorrow when she arrived at Green gables! and heard Marrila speak of her not being a boy, of her not being what she wanted. "I shall cry now," is what she said. "how would you feel if the prettiest home you've ever been to is about to be taken away? You are not an orphan, you would not understand, nor will you ever". But of course, from the kindness of Marilla's heart (frankly, there isn't much in her), Marilla pointed out that she will stay here for the night, and tomorrow they will talk it through and decide whether Anne will stay.
Oh, I could go on forever describing Anne; her looks, personality, and even her history. She is such an interesting
little girl, with such a kindred spirit. After much discussion, long nights and lost of work, Anne stays. Marilla decided that it wasn't fair for Anne to go back to her awful past (working as a young maid, and living at the asylum). Anne's story had pulled Marilla's heart strings.
ANNE MEETS MS RACHEL LYNDE (Chapter 9-10)
After all this hear and gossip about miss Shirley (Anne), Ms Lynde MUST come over to Green Gables and learn about Anne. Marilla called Anne in from the forest, where she had been on a wonder, and introduced her to Rachel Lynde. "Oh, she is awfully skinny, freckled and red headed" were ms Lynde's first words. Oh, that pushed Anne's buttons, as Anne really hates her skinny-ness, freckles and her red hair. Sometimes she likes to imagine it away, but it is awfully hard. At once, Anne yelled away. She is certainly sure of her actions, good or not.
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"I hate you," she cried in a choked voice, stamping her foot on the floor. "I hate you--I hate you--I hate you--" a louder stamp, each with more frustration. "How dare you call me skinny and ugly? How dare you say I'm freckled and redheaded? You are a rude, impolite, unfeeling woman!
"How dare you say such things about me?" she repeated angrily. "How would you like to have such things said about you? How would you like to be told that you are fat and clumsy and probably hadn't a spark of imagination in you? I don't care if I do hurt your feelings by saying so! I hope I hurt them. You have hurt mine worse than they were ever hurt before even by Mrs. Thomas' intoxicated husband. And I'll NEVER forgive you for it, never, never!"
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ANNE'S APOLOGY
"Oh, Mrs. Lynde, I am so extremely sorry," she said with a slight shake in her voice. "I could never express all my sorrow, no, not if I used up a whole dictionary. You must just imagine it. I behaved terribly to you--and I've disgraced the dear friends, Matthew and Marilla, who have let me stay at Green Gables although I'm not a boy. I'm a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable people forever. It was very wicked of me to fly into a temper because you told me the truth. It WAS the truth; every word you said was true. My hair is red and I'm freckled and skinny and ugly. What I said to you was true, too, but I shouldn't have said it....
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...Oh, Mrs. Lynde, please, please, forgive me. If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl would you, even if she had a dreadful temper? Oh, I am sure you wouldn't. Please say you forgive me, Mrs. Lynde." Ms. Lynde stared at Anne, and stare she should, as Anne used such rare vocabulary, it even amazing Ms Lynde. Rachel said she forgives her, and even complimented her with saying this: " I once went to school with a child, hair as red as yours, and now days, her hair is a handsome auburn."
that was just the apology Anne needed.
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ANNE MEETS DIANA BARRY (Chapter 12)
Diana Barry is everything Anne wanted in herself. Plump, black hair and no freckles. When Marilla goes up to visit the Barry's, she decides to give Anne a friend. Anne was very excited, because she had never have a "bosom friend" before. The two become very close friends, they create their own morse code, as they can see each other's bedroom windows, and always sit next to each other in class.
GILBERT BECOMES AN ENEMY (Chapter 15)
Anne had been in her usual school class, when a child, Gilbert Blythe, had come in. He had been away with his cousins. Gilbert was a naughty boy! he liked flirting with the girls. When he laced his eyes on Anne, the new kid, a whole new world flashed before his eyes. He immediately grabbed one of Anne's braids and said "Carrots! Carrots!" oh, Anne stood up with fire in her eyes. (I quote from the book:) Then Anne looked at him with a vengeance!
She did more than look. She sprang to her feet, her bright fancies fallen into cureless ruin. She flashed one indignant glance at Gilbert from eyes whose angry sparkle was swiftly quenched in equally angry tears.
"You mean, hateful boy!" she exclaimed passionately. "How dare you!"
And then--thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it--slate not head--clear across.
Anne swore that she would never mention that dreadful Gilbert Blythe again! The thing that is worse, was when her teacher put Anne's name on the board, he spelt it without an e! This really boiled Anne's blood, because she was very self-conscious about her name and looks, she though Ann was not elegant. She wished to be called Cordelia, but that would not happen. Ann with an e is the closest thing to elegance she had.
DIANA IS INVITED TO TEA WITH TRAGIC RESULTS (Chapter 16)
It was another normal day for Anne. Today, Marilla was going to an Aid Society meeting in Carmody, leaving just Anne, as Mathew would be out in the back. "Anne, if you took a notion to get up and have dinner in the middle of the night. But you keep your wits about you this time. And--I don't really know if I'm doing right--it may make you more addlepated than ever--but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here" Anne had a cake ,tea and even Marilla's red cordial sorted out. After a lot of playing in the forest, they came in, ready for some of that delicious cordial. But cordial it was not. Diana though it was absolutely delicious, better than ms Lynde's! She had many cups of it before she felt awfully sick, and wanted to go home.
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Diana got home that night drunk. Ms Barry had thought highly of Anne until now. She though Anne had purposely poisoned her dear Diana. her punishment? Anne cannot speak to Diana, sit next to her or visit her. How will Anne get out of this one?
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ANNE TO THE RESCUE (Chapter 18)
"Oh, Anne, do come quick," informed Diana nervously. "Minnie May is awful sick--she's got croup. Young Mary Joe says--and Father and Mother are away to town and there's nobody to go for the doctor. Minnie May is awful bad and Young Mary Joe doesn't know what to do--and oh, Anne, I'm so scared!"
Anne knew exactly what to do- Get some hot water, treat her with ipecac and keep the room warm. Anne, Diana and Young Mary Joe stayed up all night making an attempt at keeping Minnie May well.
After a long night, a professional doctor had arrived with Mr and Ms Barry, Mathew following close behind. Anne has regained her trust with ms Barry; she may now be friends with Diana.
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MATHEW INSISTS ON PUFFED SLEEVES (Chapter 25)
It's very simple, and it goes like this: Mathew had lots of empathy for Anne, as one day he figured out why he though Anne stood out from the rest of the girls (he had been studying this for a while). Anne didn't have puffed sleeves. After much discussion with himself, (a lot of conversation goes on in Avonlea!) Mathew Cuthbert decided to go into town and buy a dress. Being the man he is, he walked into the general store, and wimped out. He then went to Ms Lynde, and she too had been thinking that. She, for Anne's birthday, made her a very pretty dress with puffed sleeves. Well, that knocked some sense into Marilla. From then on, Marilla made Anne's dresses with puffed sleeves.
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MOVING OUT (Chapter 32-36)
After many tears and nose blowing, the two girls said their farewells. Anne was going to Queens College and Diana would stay.
It felt like only a few weeks, before the year at Queens college was over, and Anne could go home. She had made some new friends, but not one could replace Diana. It was an interesting year, but the time had come to see who had won the awards. Since she had her fume with Gilbert, Anne had always been competing with him, and vigorously won, always being on top of the class, Gilbert close behind. When Anne was accepted into this college, she had to take a test. She shared equal first with Gilbert Blythe. Now she needed to win one of these awards, to prove once and for all she was better.
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Oh, win she did. Anne walked into the front porch. "Hurrah for Blythe, medalist!" cheered the boys. Anne thought that she wouldn't win anything else. There was only one other medal, the Avory. Everyone thought Emily Clay would win the Avory. "Well, Gilbert was better after all." then suddenly; "three cheers for Miss Shirley, winner of the Avory!" What a bend in the road was this! Anne and Gilbert are equal, and that's final.
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Death and a change.(Chapter 37-38)
Anne got home and immediately saw Marilla crying. Marilla told her that Mathew had.. she winced, died. It was sudden, and there's no way of explaining her emotions. Terrible, Anne thought. Now Marilla will have no other choice than to sell Green gables, as she can't look after it herself!
Anne was very upset at this news, especially because she will be going away to teach. She doesn't want Marilla to sell green gables! She grew up there. It was home.
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Worry she shall not.
Gilbert Blythe (the sneaky little beast) had heard of the news, and felt terribly sorry for Anne. He knew one way of fixing it. He had been given the Avonlea school to teach at. He also knew Anne was teaching at a school far away, too far to visit Marilla. He decided to swap schools with Anne.
"Maybe, deep down, Gilbert is a kindred spirit" Anne was at the graveyard, talking to Mathew (his grave) when Gilbert saw her. He walked her home, then spent around 30 minutes in a general conversation with outside her house. A bend in the road indeed.
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