Glad to Be Alive
Monday June 2, 2008
Anne of Green Gables is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story centers around Anne Shirley, a red-head orphan, with a wild imagination and a talent for getting into trouble. The series follows Anne through her continuing adventures, as she grows up, finds love, etc. (and the books are sometimes cited as favorites by girls and women of all ages).
So, whether you've read the books, or you've enjoyed the adaptations, Anne's perspective can be comforting and endearing. In the novel, we read: "Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?" The imagination can carry us all through some of the most difficult situations. There's so much we don't know, so much we can learn, and so much can look forward to.
Here are more quotes from Anne of Green Gables. What are your thoughts on the novel?
So, whether you've read the books, or you've enjoyed the adaptations, Anne's perspective can be comforting and endearing. In the novel, we read: "Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?" The imagination can carry us all through some of the most difficult situations. There's so much we don't know, so much we can learn, and so much can look forward to.
Here are more quotes from Anne of Green Gables. What are your thoughts on the novel?
Comments
Well, being a boy in the 50’s, this was considered to be a ‘girly book’, so I never read it. Watched a serialized dramatization on British TV once. All I can remember is she hated her beautiful red hair and tried to die it black, but it came out green.
I suspect the ‘Anne’ books are rather good, and evoke their NE location nicely … Praps I’ll try them in my dotage, when I have time … not there yet by the way!
I was into Anne of Green Gables long before the landmark TV series!
Lucy Maud Montgomery did not write the “Anne” books sequentially. Anne of Ingleside (when Anne is a mother of six and returning for her college reunion) and Anne of Windy Poplars (when Anne is a newly minted teacher) are frankly bad. These books were written late in her life, when she was coping with her minister husband’s mental breakdown.
It is said that Lucy Maud Montgomery related better to her Emily character, the subject of a series of 3 books.
If you like the Anne series, then I recommend the Emily series and Kate Douglas Wiggin’s Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Loved the books and the series. saddley i have never found my boosom buddy.