Anne of Green Gables Themes

If you need a friendship handbook, just open up Anne of Green Gables. Seriously. The friendships in this book might just be the most idealized relationships ever. There's something about Anne that...

Anne of Green Gables is a story about Anne getting what she wants so desperately: a home. Home is so important to Anne that she (gasp) has trouble telling people why, even though she could talk for...

Marilla thinks that Anne is so vain, she probably thinks that this novel is about her. And, of course, she's right. She's also right that Anne spends a great deal of time thinking about her appeara...

Open Anne of Green Gables to any page and you'll probably find a detailed description of a garden, flower by flower, or all the trees Anne encounters on a walk to school, or the sun rising through...

You don't have to read far into Anne of Green Gables to get a sense of the role of the church in the town's setting of Avonlea. The answer: a lot. In a town without a lot to do, its Protestant chur...

You could say Anne has almost too much awe. (And Marilla would agree with you.) But the ability to find wonder in everyday things is one of Anne's greatest strengths. Some of it comes from how litt...

They grow up so fast, don't they? Especially Anne of Green Gables. The first nineteen chapters of the book zero in on Anne's first year in Avonlea, and then suddenly, the picture zooms, way, way ou...

Anne isn't a fan of cooking, sewing, or doing dishes. So she's normal. But, in Anne of Green Gables' Christian farm community, people, especially children, are expected to do their work without com...