ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Red Hair, Anne Of Green Gables
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Out of puritan ideal and into the romantic ideal of childhood. The trees passage; they just looked like orphans themselves, those trees did. ": here the tree is analogous to anne, a plant should be cared for just as. Anne needs to be in avonlea the ideal environment for the child: avonlea = kindergarten garden for nurturing child/plant. Anne renames everything in green gables: avenue the white way of delight; The apple blossoms kitchen table bedroom table wallpaper. Nature and god: i"d go out into a great bid field all alone or into the deep, deep woods . and then i"d just feel a prayer". God is imminent in nature; apprehend god through feeling/emotion: overhead was one long canopy of snowy fragrant bloom. Below the boughs the air was full of a purple . at the end of a cathedral. ". Narrator brings this romantic religion notion into story. The book is wishful and fulfills those wishes anne imagines.
