Instead there is a freckled 11 year old girl with red hair, named Anne Shirley. However, when Matthew arrives at the train station there is no boy to be found. The story begins with the very shy and soft-spoken Matthew heading towards the train station to pick up their new adopted boy, averting his eyes from every women he passes along the way. Here siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, both reaching into their 50's and 60's, are looking to adopt a boy of around 10 to help them with the farm work. Akage no Anne doesn’t seem to be a particularly grand story if one was to simply read the blurb - there are no dramatic plot twists, no tyrants to defeat, no epic quest spanning galaxies - it is just a very simple tale of a young orphaned girl coming to terms with herself and others.Īkage no Anne takes place in the late nineteenth century, in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edwards Island, Canada.
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