The reading
The bead. That an unwanted, placeless orphan — sent by mistake, nearly sent back — is taken in as she is and given a permanent home, becoming so wholly of the place that it renames her.
Engines
- belonging · content · spine · ~ — the orphan with no place, given one that holds. Anne arrives as the wrong child (a girl where a boy was ordered) and is almost returned — "We sent word, Matthew and I, for you to bring us a boy from the asylum… we wanted a boy ten or eleven years old" — but the placeless child is taken in anyway: Matthew's "We might be some good to her" turns the wrong-arrival into a home, and she ends the book belonging so fully that the house is in her name. The textbook belonging shape (cf. Mowgli, The Jungle Book ("Mowgli's Brothers")): involuntarily placeless → taken into a company that holds → a place that is hers.
The bundle. Single dominant wish (the found home), with a being-desired adjacency that doesn't separate cleanly here — Anne's longing to be wanted reads as the same wish to be given a place, not a distinct relational desire. Spine is belonging.
Dual-use read. Belonging's counterfeit is the cult / the cell — a place bought by self-erasure and submission (counterfeit-catalog, Fight Club). Anne is the bright pole, un-run: the place is freely given and she is kept as she is (Marilla takes her despite the chatter and the temper she never sheds). No counterfeit is sold; the engine runs in its genuine form.
Verdict — belonging, clean. A high-recognition childhood classic that fills belonging's slots on a famous, citable scene. Tagged ~ reviewed from a reading with the key scene confirmed against the text; a verbatim entries/ dossier would promote it to ✓.
Evidence. ~ reviewed — Project Gutenberg #45; the slot-1 (wrong-child / nearly-returned) and slot-2 ("we might be some good to her") quotes confirmed against pg45.txt, ch. 3. Not yet a full slot-proven dossier.