Outline

Intro: Montgomery utilizes her life and the setting to fashion two unique characters which capture the imagination.

           1 Author's life => impact
"Yet new evidence reveals that Montgomery also had a way of blending truth and fiction, past and present, consistently obscuring the "bald facts," as the fictional Maxilla calls them, which may explain why it has taken more than a century to unravel how the world's most famous redhead came into being"(Gammel).
" Lonely and orphaned after the death of her mother when she was a toddler, and raised by stern Presbyterian grandparents in remote Cavendish"(Gammel).

           2 difference between both girls => two good and unique stories
This is the over arching theme for paragraph three and four, which might be part of it, or become its own paragraph.

           3 Anne
witty, intelligent "stubbornly optimistic"(Setoodeh).
equality, a boy to help with the farm (L M Montgomery 26).
"Composed of the fragments of a lifetime, charismatic Anne is a magnetic and modern character with the ability to recruit fans across nations and cultures, inspiring movies, musicals, and animation"(Gammel).

           4 Sara
stories, expressions (Montgomery 68 )
"Lonely and orphaned after the death of her mother when she was a toddler, and raised by stern Presbyterian grandparents in remote Cavendish"(Gammel).

           5 the interchangeable atmosphere of Canada => lasting and physical spread b/c of char.
 "It has long been recognized that Anne’s world reaches well beyond the
Cavendish farmhouse where L. M. Montgomery penned the first of her
series of nine books featuring the precocious redhead around whom an
industry of books, film and stage adaptations, tourist sites and memorabilia,
websites, and discussion and research groups has developed"(Clement 217).

 "According to the 2005 Online Computer Library Center, Anne is the number one Canadian book held in international libraries"(Gammel).

 "In spite of their acknowledgment of the similarities between Anne and
other popular contemporary books, Canadian critics have tended to downplay Montomery’s probable debt to other authors"(Dawson 31-32).

          6 situations/ plot line
" The First Life: Exposure
The Story of an Orphan.
Poverty and Neglect.
Dispossessed Royalty and the Vanished Happy Time.
Parent’s Violation of a Marriage Prohibition.
The Journey.
The Second Life: Social Problems
Destination: The Big House and the Great Outdoors.
Adoption by a Second Family.
Surrogate Parents of a Different Social Rank.
The Same-sex Antagonist.
Opposite-sex Helpers or Outsiders.
Triumph over the Antagonist.
The Child Emerges as Savior.
The Third Life: Return
Issues of Identity Are Resolved.
Recognition Ceremonies.
Accommodation of Two Lives." ( Dawson 5-9).

Conclusion 

 Clement, Lesley D. "Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables." Literary Reference Center.   EBSCO. Web. 8 Dec. 2011.
Dawson, Janis. "Literary Relations: Anne Shirley And Her American Cousins." Children's Literature In Education 33.1 (2002): 29-51. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Jan. 2012.
 Gammel, Irene. "Looking For Anne." Beaver 88.2 (2008): 14-15. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.
Montgomery, L M .
 Setoodeh, Ramin. "It's Still Not Easy Being Green." Newsweek 152.4 (2008): 48-50. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Jan. 2012.