Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea

[ailbhe]

Wait - all those maids and hired hands described as French are actually black, aren't they?

I think I preferred the books before I realised that.

Comments

[sshi.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had forgotten about the freckle thing. I know I found really odd, considering that I was living in Ireland, which probably has the highest density of freckles in the *entire world* and at least half of my class in school had visible freckles (myself included). I think I just dismissed it as 'odd stuff from books', into the same category as magic wardrobes, Fruhstuck und Mittagessen, magic waves and foiling smugglers with only your wits.

[the0lady.livejournal.com]

Hehe, if those books read as a bit exotic in Ireland, imagine what they were like in Jerusalem... =)

I didn't really get a lot of the stuff while I was a fan of the books. I identified with a strong willed, intelligent, articulate and passionate heroine, of which there were precious few for me to identify with; all the weird cultural shit went by the wayside, freckles included.