Preferably in painstaking detail.Īt one point, one of the clan marches up to a non-church goer to demand he attend church (so her father's salary could be paid). Heaven forbid if anyone questions the minutest aspect of God's love or infinite kindness - every single precocious child would discuss the finer points of theology. But, Book 7 uses a funnel to force it down our throats so often that it actually soured me to this book.
I don't mind reading religious books and quite like how it was handled in the first couple of Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery actually met any children.Īnd, then there is the shoe-horned religion at every page. The children meet in secret to punish themselves because if their father won't discipline them, then they will have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and raise themselves. He's their father - their only parent alive - and he is supposedly too thick to understand that his children need socks? That they need guidance and affection? And all of that is excused because he is so holy and devoted to God?Īt one point, their weak-minded father has to whip one of the boys (for throwing a eel at an old lady) and the father discovers he cannot bring himself to do such a cruel act. He doesn't need a wife, he need a firm kick to the teeth. And what does the town think? He's a fine minister, though he could use a wife to manage things.
WEEKS.Īnd what do the children think? That he's the best father in the world. The orphan girl lived under the same roof as the father. The children even adopted an orphan girl for two weeks before he noticed. None of his children ever had much to eat, they ran around in literal rags and at one point, one child watched as her pet rooster was slaughtered and served for dinner. He neglects his children, his house and his life in order to be a better minister. Their widowed minister father is the worst man I've read about in a long time. Every sin they commit or moment of disobedience can be traced back to an gosh-darn honest mistake - they could do no wrong and I hated them for it. Me.Īnne's kids are secondary to the "Mary-Sue" Meredith clan - a wholesome, cherub-faced group of sorely neglected children who adore their minister father and God with all their heart.
Montgomery doubled the amount of precocious children and shoves Anne's kids off to the side. Well, if that wasn't bad enough, book 7 has Anne as a tertiary character. To catch you up - book 6 of ANNE of Green Gables demoted Anne to a secondary character and her six precocious (obnoxious) children shared the spotlight. I thought Book 6 was rock bottom - turns out I was wrong. Over ten Mary-Sues in one book? Got to be a record.
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