The Title:

What is the significance of the title in relation to the story? Is it a title of irony? Does it
sum up the main events? Does is state the theme?

The Setting:

1. Where does the story take place?

2. When does the story take place?

Set in the late 19th century in the fictional town of Avonlea in Prince
Edward Island.

Characters:

1. Who are the main characters? Are they round or flat? Why?
2. Describe your favourite main character. Why is he/she your favourite main
character?
3. Who is your favourite secondary character? Why?
1. Anne Shirley The protagonist of the novel.Anne is an orphan who is
adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert and grows up on their farm,
Green Gables. Anne is stubborn, passionate, loyal, and intelligent. She
loves beauty and fantasy, and wants to be a good person. round
because she changes
Marilla Cuthbert An unmarried woman who raises Anne.Although she raises
Anne strictly, she loves her adopted daughter, and by the end of the novel she
has become softer and more expressive. ROUND
Matthew Cuthbert A sixty-year-old bachelor who lives at Green Gables with
his sister, Marilla. Matthew is painfully shy and a little eccentric. round
Diana Barry Anne’s best friend. Diana is a plump, pretty girl Anne’s age who
lives next door to Green Gables at Orchard Slope. FLAT?

2.
The plot:

1. What is the situation? Has anything happened before the story begins?
2. Then, what happens? What starts the events of the story moving?
3. What happens as a result of that?
4. What is the crisis or turning point?
5. How is the problem or situation resolved (the climax)?
6. Is there adequate suspense or tension, does or interest lag?

1. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are unmarried siblings who 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. Matthew, who is terrified of women, arrives at the
train station and finds a girl orphan instead of a boy; 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.

The Story as a whole:

1. Would you recommend your friends or your students to read this story? Why?
Why not?

theme:
identity
innocence
importance of education
self-confidence
friendships