by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Read the excerpt from Chapter 4.
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla had decided to adopt a boy to help on their farm called Green Gables. When a girl, Anne, arrives, they are surprised. In this excerpt, Anne has just awoken after her first night at Green Gables.
Anne could evidently be smart to some purpose for she was down-stairs in ten minutesâ time, with her clothes neatly on, her hair brushed and braided, her face washed, and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled all Marillaâs requirements. As a matter of fact, however, she had forgotten to turn back the bedclothes.
âIâm pretty hungry this morning,â she announced as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her. âThe world doesnât seem such a howling wilderness as it did last night. Iâm so glad itâs a sunshiny morning. But I like rainy mornings real well, too. All sorts of mornings are interesting, donât you think? You donât know whatâs going to happen through the day, and thereâs so much scope for imagination. But Iâm glad itâs not rainy today because itâs easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day. I feel that I have a good deal to bear up under. Itâs all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but itâs not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?â
âFor pityâs sake hold your tongue,â said Marilla. âYou talk entirely too much for a little girl.â
Thereupon Anne held her tongue so obediently and thoroughly that her continued silence made Marilla rather nervous, as if in the presence of something not exactly natural. Matthew also held his tongue,âbut this was natural,âso that the meal was a very silent one.
As it progressed Anne became more and more abstracted, eating mechanically, with her big eyes fixed unswervingly and unseeingly on the sky outside the window. This made Marilla more nervous than ever; she had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd childâs body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination. Who would want such a child about the place?
Yet Matthew wished to keep her, of all unaccountable things! Marilla felt that he wanted it just as much this morning as he had the night before, and that he would go on wanting it. That was Matthewâs wayâtake a whim into his head and cling to it with the most amazing silent persistencyâa persistency ten times more potent and effectual in its very silence than if he had talked it out.
When the meal was ended Anne came out of her reverie and offered to wash the dishes.
âCan you wash dishes right?â asked Marilla distrustfully.
âPretty well. Iâm better at looking after children, though. Iâve had so much experience at that. Itâs such a pity you havenât any here for me to look after.â
âI donât feel as if I wanted any more children to look after than Iâve got at present. Youâre problem enough in all conscience. Whatâs to be done with you I donât know. Matthew is a most ridiculous man.â
âI think heâs lovely,â said Anne reproachfully. âHe is so very sympathetic. He didnât mind how much I talkedâhe seemed to like it. I felt that he was a kindred spirit as soon as ever I saw him.â
âYouâre both queer enough, if thatâs what you mean by kindred spirits,â said Marilla with a sniff. âYes, you may wash the dishes. Take plenty of hot water, and be sure you dry them well. Iâve got enough to attend to this morning for Iâll have to drive over to White Sands in the afternoon and see Mrs. Spencer. Youâll come with me and weâll settle whatâs to be done with you. After youâve finished the dishes go up-stairs and make your bed.â
Anne washed the dishes deftly enough, as Marilla who kept a sharp eye on the process, discerned. Later on she made her bed less successfully, for she had never learned the art of wrestling with a feather tick. But it was done somehow and smoothed down; and then Marilla, to get rid of her, told her she might go out-of-doors and amuse herself until dinner time.
Question 1
Part A
What is a theme of Anne of Green Gables?
Some people can find ways to stay positive under any circumstances.
It's easy to adhere to a decision once one has committed to it.
It's difficult to imagine possibilities when life has been hard.
Children should be given the opportunity to express themselves.
Question 2
Part B
Which detail from the story best supports the answer to Part A?
ââIâm pretty hungry this morning,â she announced as she slipped into the chair Marilla placed for her.â
âYet Matthew wished to keep her, of all unaccountable things!â
ââBut I'm glad itâs not rainy today because itâs easier to be cheerful and bear up under affliction on a sunshiny day.ââ
âWho would want such a child about the place?â
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