Final project proposal

For the final project, I want to choose a passage from, Anne of the Green Gables, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables is actually a children’s book, but it’s so attractive that I even cannot drive my eyes of it right now, when I’m already 17. It tells a story of a little girl called Anne that’s an orphan adopted by a brother and sister. They wanted to adopt a boy actually, but their fate leads them to the little girl and their lives became different. It’s a great novel that it’s too warm. It including love and friendship a lot in this book and it’s also funny due to the strange characteristic of the little girl. I want to choose a passage from this book because it’s my great memory of childhood and it would be a fun experience to feel those clear characters in this book.

Even though this book is a children’s book, I feel like the writer seen the main characters as an adult that she used the way of an adult to think. I want to chose the first few chapters of the book to stage because it’s pretty dramatic. Anne, a girl with strange and romantic thinking, has been sent to Matthew and Marilla’s home even though they actually want a boy to support their works. Anne was talkative, so that her personality seems truly clear. She can highlight the scene and make it fun to read. Matthew is the elder brother who’s full of sympathy and he seems very nice. Marilla is the sister and she seemed serious, old- fashioned and upright. When they struggled about if Anne should stay or leave, it would be really interesting to see.

This part of the book can teach students how to create a person’s personality through acting as them, and it can make us to understand the real thinking of those characters as well. Also, the funny characters would make the passage more interesting to act and discuss. This scene can show the struggle between people and something that can change people’s mind.

For the setting of the scene, I want there to be two settings. The first one should be the home of Marilla and Mathew that they can argue in and to get Anne in. The other scene should be Mathew and Anne’s journey back to home. Through the journey, due to the talkative personality of Anne, Matthew would have a more clear understanding of Anne and it would lead him to think about keeping her in their home. For Marilla, she would be stubborn but she would finally understand Anne and wants to keep her after talking to each other about their experience together.

I want the scene to be warm, with bright light effects and some slow music. When Anne uses her imaginary to talk about things that she wishes, there would be sounds that are unrealistic.

Overall, I would like to state a scene that’s attractive, as the first impression that this book gave me.