Wisdom From Avonlea

We finished watching Anne of Avonlea last night! The first two Green Gables movies still delight me, and I have quite a notion that when I am an old woman and watch them, I shall still wish I could sweep my hair up in a pompadour and wear trailing dresses. But that's just a guess! I think what I love about the movies, is that they show all kinds of people in such a sometimes exxagerating way that you have to laugh, because the characteristics are so recognizable. Take Mrs. Rachel Lynde ;) for instance. We've all met people who take it upon themselves to decide what everyone else should and shouldn't do. And ones who tell people exactly what they think of them. Therefore, all of us older children had to laugh (for the thousandth time) when Mrs. Lynde says of Anne going to Boston, "I don't approve of way young woman go traveling all over the world today! It reminds me of the devil in the book of Job, going to and fro and up and down!" And old, critical, fussy Mrs. Harris when Anne tells her she can go on a carriage ride and "crrritisize everybody who passes by" and she retorts, "Crritisize? Miss Shirley that's not Chrrrristian!"
I just love the simplicity of the storyline, and yet it makes a very entertaining movie! Maybe it's charm lies in the fact that it is about things that are close to home and familiar. In Little Women and Anne of Green Gables, both young women writers are given the piece of wisdom to write about things that are part of their life and important, not, in Gilbert's words: "High faluting mumbo-jumbo". I don't think I'd hit Matthew with a basket if he told me that, or crack a slate over Daniel's head if he called me "mud-head", (my hair is brown, I wish it was red!)
I've taken that piece of wisdom into my writing, even though I never was one to go writing stories set in Camelot. I prefer the pioneer, Victorian,or Civil War times to midievil times anyway! But the point is, you should write about as Gilbert also says, "the people and places you care about! Right here in ____ (insert you family)"
So that is why one story I have written is a book about our family, set in a different time, but correct otherwise. That is why most of my stories center around families and family relationships. This is what I know and care about, where God has placed me, and this is where my greatest writing will be found. Anyway, just thought that would be an interesting post for any fellow scribblers! Hope you enjoyed reading! And please leave a comment if you can! (Because we otherwise shall ban you from our blog! ;) just kidding!) -Rachel