Anne of green gables
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Share a selection of Historical Fiction (novel, chapter book, or picturebook) that you feel meets the criteria of the genre. Identify title and author, give a brief plot summary, and discuss the conflict and themes found therein.
The Book I chose that is a great example of a historical fiction that meets the criteria outlined in the chapter is Anne of Green Gables by L.M Mongomery. This is a book about Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert who are unmarried siblings that live on their ancestral farm, Green Gables. Matthew is sixty, and since he is getting too old to handle the farm work on his own, the Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan boy to help him; the orphanage sent the eleven-year-old Anne Shirley by mistake. Anne’s talkativeness and spirit charm Matthew, who shyly tells Marilla that he wants to keep her. Marilla hesitates at first, but after a trial period, she agrees to let Anne stay on. Anne is a talkative and happy girl despite living a life as an orphan. Though she lacks social graces and education, she has an optimistic and generous spirit. Because Anne acts according to her instincts and not according to a code of manners, she unintentionally defies expectations of proper ladylike behavior. She gets herself into a lot of socially inappropriate situations because of her lack of knowledge in this realm, which causes a lot of fuss in the town. As Anne grows up, she loses some of her childish flare for the melodramatic and romantic, and turns her spirited attentions to academics, Anne devotes herself to her studies wholeheartedly and earns the prestigious Avery Scholarship and makes plans to attend a four-year college- due to a life changing event Anne decides to stay at Green Gables and teach nearby so that she can care for Marilla. Though her future path has narrowed considerably, Anne remains eternally optimistic and thinks cheerfully about her future. The themes and conflict present in this book include the conflict between imagination and social expectations as well as sentimentality versus Emotion as a child Anne cannot distinguish between true emotion and mere sentimentality, or fake emotion, often allowing herself to indulge in sentiment because she thinks it romantic. In part, Anne’s attachment to sentimentality provides a refuge from the real emotions of fear and loss she experienced as a child. Because Anne knows the pain of real emotion, the play-world of sentiment is comforting to her.
The Book I chose that is a great example of a historical fiction that meets the criteria outlined in the chapter is Anne of Green Gables by L.M Mongomery. This is a book about Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert who are unmarried siblings that live on their ancestral farm, Green Gables. Matthew is sixty, and since he is getting too old to handle the farm work on his own, the Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan boy to help him; the orphanage sent the eleven-year-old Anne Shirley by mistake. Anne’s talkativeness and spirit charm Matthew, who shyly tells Marilla that he wants to keep her. Marilla hesitates at first, but after a trial period, she agrees to let Anne stay on. Anne is a talkative and happy girl despite living a life as an orphan. Though she lacks social graces and education, she has an optimistic and generous spirit. Because Anne acts according to her instincts and not according to a code of manners, she unintentionally defies expectations of proper ladylike behavior. She gets herself into a lot of socially inappropriate situations because of her lack of knowledge in this realm, which causes a lot of fuss in the town. As Anne grows up, she loses some of her childish flare for the melodramatic and romantic, and turns her spirited attentions to academics, Anne devotes herself to her studies wholeheartedly and earns the prestigious Avery Scholarship and makes plans to attend a four-year college- due to a life changing event Anne decides to stay at Green Gables and teach nearby so that she can care for Marilla. Though her future path has narrowed considerably, Anne remains eternally optimistic and thinks cheerfully about her future. The themes and conflict present in this book include the conflict between imagination and social expectations as well as sentimentality versus Emotion as a child Anne cannot distinguish between true emotion and mere sentimentality, or fake emotion, often allowing herself to indulge in sentiment because she thinks it romantic. In part, Anne’s attachment to sentimentality provides a refuge from the real emotions of fear and loss she experienced as a child. Because Anne knows the pain of real emotion, the play-world of sentiment is comforting to her.