Posted By: kiddada @ 07/23/2008 6:40:18 PM
Comment: Every young girl should read this book, This book gave me a sense of worth even when i did not understand what it was giving me! I have never read a book where i felt as closed to the character as to Anne Shirley and I am a Haitian women who grew up in Montreal. I was not an orphan - but my mother left me in Haiti to come to Canada to pursue the "Canadian" dream. When i arrived in Montreal at the same age as Anne, I had the same feelings of displacement, abandonment, survivorship, and a will to prove that i was not a burden but a blessing. Like Anne, it took my mother years to realize this and like Anne i am grateful that my mother let my free spirit, wit, and sense of adventure developed (never had a curfew even when i was 10 years old!). And like Anne standing on the cliff looking at the ocean, whenever i walk into a room full of "important" people, i think of my favorite line from the book: "Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
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