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In Anne of Green Gables and The Story Girl, L. M. Montgomery has a female lead which mimics her own life. In both books the female lead portrays the same character. Anne’s magnetic character is what pushed the novel from a moderate to an exceptional title. Although these stories seem American in nature, Montgomery grew up as a Canadian orphan. With a bubbly and dramatic personality the characterization attracts readers worldwide and crosses the barrier of time.  Montgomery utilizes her life and the setting to fashion two unique characters which capture the imagination.

                As a child, Montgomery became " Lonely and orphaned after the death of her mother …raised by stern Presbyterian grandparents in remote Cavendish"(Gammel). She was left with her imagination and little else, with stories like her own. Montgomery’s cousin was raised as an orphan and eventually adopt, although, like Anne, was supposed to be a boy. Like both Anne and the Story Girl, her imagination could get a bit out of hand, "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). Her nature to elaborate refined the character of Anne. Her character clearly fashioned the popularity of the novel. Montgomery’s desire to relive her life is the reason that any of her books exist.

Although the characters are nearly interchangeable, there are some differences between them that make them unique.

Anne- more focused to education and+, more competitive dramatic for expression, more concerned about her looks 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).
Story Girl- dramatic for the drama, story is most important, fun/ new and exciting |stories, expressions (Montgomery 68 ) =>differences in stories, like both not one => both likable

Since Canada was an established country by several different countries in Europe, although not as widespread as the US, they easily relate to a large amount of people in both the US and Europe. These facts lead to the spread of Anne of Green Gables and The Story Girl throughout the world and why it is still popular now.

 "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). Even though it contains American influence, there are still some characteristics which make it purely Canadian. "According to the 2005 Online Computer Library Center, Anne is the number one Canadian book held in international libraries"(Gammel).  Although it is impossible  to say what specifically made the ranking of the book so high, one cannot deny that Montgomery’s life and the characterization of Anne played a role in raising its success.  "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). As most people enjoy being around others similar to them, Montgomery kept in contact with other authors. This relationship caused critics to question how much of the novel actually was hers, and if its popularity grew because of the Americanized nature. Regardless there are some instances where the Canadian nature is clear. (Quote Here)From an outside perspective, the countries of Canada and America are very similar, in the day to day life, so it could be mistaken easily, just from ignorance.

The typical plot line of an orphan is closely followed by Anne's life, while the Story Girl's plot line is lacking. Anne’s two lives cultivate her final character. Anne story opens at the end of her first life.

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There is a ton of similar sentence structure, which I need to fix, and a significant amount of passive voice. I wanted to show just how bad it is before I started to revise.