Anne Shirley Episode 6 Discussion

That's in the episode. I haven't seen the 1979 anime, so maybe it's covered in a different way there, but Diana does say here that she doesn't know what to do with characters so she has them killed...

Loved this episode, it does feel like they slowed down a bit.

"I am Anne the green-haired of Green Gables, the unhappiest girl in Prince Edward Island." LOL, chin up, girl.

Today I just know that Matthew and Marilla are siblings, not couple, I must be the only one who just realized this fact this late.

Anyway, today Anne learn that fiction can move people's emotion, and people can have different reaction on the same thing.

It seems like the novel she write about drowning couples will partially become true in the next episode.

im confused about why they where laughing at her story, does anyone know why?

im confused about why they where laughing at her story, does anyone know why?

I wonder why they did skip the chapter with Josephine Barry...and the one with adding a Spice to the cake. I can get the spice in the cake but Josephine is pretty important character I would say...

Anne is 13 already? Wow. She grows up so fast. Just 2 more years before she becomes an adult, huh?

Both Marilla and Matthew were unmarried?! Wtf did these two do when they were younger? Also, it's funny to see new people discovering that Matthew and Marilla every week. Did you guys not pay attention to previous episodes or the forums? At this point, I'm certain we'll get another guy saying the same thing in the next episode's thread next week...

I said so many times that Anne would be a great writer with her huge imagination. Good to see that I hit the nail on the head. And she's not just a good writer either, she's also a great teacher! That's another thing she can become when she grows up now. Anne's story is basically a more romanticized version of her life lol. Also, I don't understand why Marilla had to be such a bitch about Anne being excited about just writing stories tho. I guess adults were always jealous of what the kids were doing in every generation. But at least she laughed after reading Anne's story.

I thought it was going to be something serious but it was just Anne messing up her hair after being scammed by buying a hair dye from a shady peddler. That'll teach her not to trust anything a random salesman says. But then it did become serious when she had to cut her hair. That was sad. But she learned an even more valuable lesson. I doubt she'd criticize herself much about her red hair now. Good for her.

Looks like she'll get her hair back in the next episode anyway. And it seems like she's going to nearly die on a boat?! I'm guessing Gilbert will save her just like Bertram saved Geraldine in her story. I wonder if there's going to be a love triangle between Anne, Diana, and Gilbert? Can't wait for the next episode.

@phantomfandom I came to know about that just now lol
Really thought they were a couple 😭😭

WAIT, if Anne wrote doomed yuri fanfic based on she and Diana, surely that means..? 🌈 😂 never beating the yuri allegations. Romance was really in the air today with all the girls getting into writing love stories thanks to Miss Stacy’s assignment. Shows how far Anne has grown that she basically became the teacher with everyone looking up to her for writing advice lol.

Not bad for a girl who had no romantic experience and didn’t even know what a proposal looked like. It’s sweet that the girls meet every week to share their writings now too, that’s gotta be so nice to see if you’re a teacher like Miss Stacy. Teaching kids is one thing, having them truly fall in love with the subject matter and grown right before your eyes is another type of rewarding! “The people in your story die as soon as you introduce them.” “I don’t know what to do with them” Diana is so Gege coded lmao.

The Gilbert/Anne ship teasing is cute too. My haters to lovers trope remains undefeated. Classic case of kids being mean to people they like.

No good deed goes unpunished. Really messed up that peddler took advantage of Anne’s kindness and sold her that sketchy hair dye. But you know, sometimes people do things for evil and it turns out to be a blessing. Anne cutting her hair has made her appreciate her long red hair and I guarantee she won’t be complaining about it when it grows back now. Sometimes you gotta lose things to appreciate em! Plus all the people close to her are gonna love her no matter what.

P.S the lil chunky girl who set Anne up with the dare last week trying to make fun of her this week is such a troll lol. So annoying.

@Marinate1016 Josie feels like she behaves the way she does because of insecurities. Given she's taller than all her female classmates and arguably is probably perceived as more homely and even unattractive to a degree that even some of the other girls with pronounced traits like a bigger nose, it makes sense she'd develop a complex, just in a different way

She also strikes me as probably being physically stronger than her female classmates as well: doing that fence walk with such confidence is nothing to sneeze at. If she can find someone to insult as more gangly and "masculine", then Anne is the most likely target, unfortunately

@holdingnothing We are talking about a very old work, so I hope that she is written as annoying bully not because the author want to depict non-standard or unfeminine girls as the subject of "deserved" mocking. This was the norm in the literature of that time, it is enough to remember how Mark Twain mocked unmasculine boys even being a rather progressive author and activist for his time.

@RobertBobert Of course not, that would undermine the development of Anne as a character who learns to appreciate her flaws, even just as someone who never read the books or watched the original anime. Her being a bully in response would contradict the development she's had, she just ignored her, which is what I'd expect, since she's becoming a more mature young lady

Funny you mention him, I'm finally getting to Tom Sawyer (not sure I even read snippets in school) and it almost feels more like he's mocking middle class and such with certain boys around Tom's age (Alfred Temple in the 1st or second chapter), while he's a little turd, only endearing occasionally, like the whitewashing fence incident that's commonly used. But him trying to memorize a Bible verse and complaining Mary's being mean to him when she's trying to help makes him about as irritating as Anne early on (and Tom starts off about where she is at present in the series, 12-13)

@holdingnothing As far as I remember, Tom is a huge self-insert of Twain, so you can draw whatever conclusions you want. It is, after all, a semi-autobiographical book. However, despite his constant mockery of "normies" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, as its sequel, is a much more mature and intelligent work. Not only does it address current political issues in a serious way, but it also shows the dangers of a marginalized lifestyle and the importance of socializing marginalized people. That is, with the advent of Twain's maturity as an author, the idealization of cheerful roguery was replaced by criticism.

Perhaps this was influenced by the transition from entertaining nostalgic literature to more professional and serious literature. I do not know what experience the author Shirley had when she wrote the first book, but I would not be surprised if the narrative in future volumes also became more mature.

@RobertBobert The opening does qualify that the Tom Sawyer story is based on recollections of boys he was friends with and such, as well as himself. I remember Huck Finn a bit more, but we only read a bit, iirc.

Or I just comple4tely forgot all the uses of the n word, of which there are supposedly over 200 in Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer not having one yet, but I'm still barely 1/5 into the book, there's one long chapter and then they start to get shorter after the midpoint.

@holdingnothing I honestly don't quite understand the criticism of Twain for the n word, he was one of the most vocal abolitionists of his time and Huckleberry Finn has some pretty loud attacks on slavery, although due to the spirit of the times some of it may seem extremely dated. But as for Tom, this topic almost never comes up in this part of the story. Probably because Tom has almost no contact with black characters at all. There are some culturally questionable moments too, but explaining them would be a very big spoiler for the last third.

By the way, speaking of the characters' relationships. If in the case of Shirley, the adaptations tried for a long time to tone down the homoerotic subtext of the original book, then with Tom it was as if the opposite was true. The book itself is as pure as possible, at least for me as a man who read it several times as a child. While the adaptations for some reason made the relationship between Tom and Finn more tender and emotional even in the 90s, turning it into a Hollywood bromance.

@RobertBobert It's not that I object to it on some grounds of propriety, it's something that is only a concern in terms of age appropriateness, which is why you probably wouldn't be reading it when you're in elementary school. Tom Sawyer's narrative doesn't really come into contact with black characters that often and the terms used are much softer, probably because the whole tone is generally softer, barring the obvious major conflict in the 3rd act.

There's so much that is probably cut out of Tom Sawyer adaptations, especially when it's more satire, like the stuff in church, including the whole thing where Tom managed to get a Bible through the ticket system they had of memorizing scripture, but he thought the first 2 disciples of Jesus were David and Goliath.

I feel like my first exposure wasn't the books, oddly enough, given I read stuff that probably was a bit over my head at times (or just out of order, like a random Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern novel we had in the middle school library or the 4th or 5th book in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain quintology, of which I'd only heard about through Disney's The Black Cauldron (adapting Book of Three and Black Cauldron in a mishmash).

I think my first exposure was quite possibly the Jonathan Taylor Thomas Tom and Huck film (not even the first one, they did an adaptation of Adv. of Huckleberry Finn in 1993 with Elijah Wood)