"MISTER GOD, THIS IS ANNA" : Fynn

All cute things come in small packages. And so does this book with a cute introductory style title and a school calendar / diary like layout.

In the entire book, the author Fynn talks about the impact a small girl called Anna made on his life. He narrates to us Anna's observations and perceptions about real life. Just to get a glimpse of the thought process of the six year old Anna, the opening statement in the book goes like this:
" the difference from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside."

Anna shows us how we can relate to God with each and every action of ours. Put in other words, she feels that God wants all of us to live our lives like Him. Her tiny mind tries to figure out answers for "squillions" of questions like "Does Mister God truly love us ?" , "Where is Mister God in us ?" . Her thought on the harmony underlying the diverse things in the universe goes like this :
"...All diverse things must have something in common. Some common factor, unnoticed and unattended to. ..... Things have shadows; .....If you held the shadow perpendicular to the screen, and then all shadows become straigh lines. The fact that all these straight lines were of different lengths was something else you didn't want.... Simply make all the straight lines cast shadows and there you are. What all these diverse things had in common,....,was the shadow of a shadow of a shadow, which was a dot ."
To Anna that dot represents God because you cannot reduce it further and it reflects the ends of an infinite series of dimensions.

Putting forth such thoughts and questions she brings about a major transition in author (and also in the reader). The book doesn't throw at us any hard-to-digest philosophy on life, God and religion. All the talk in the book is from a six year old's mouth. So you can imagine how simple her thoughts would be. Go ahead, devour it(as Anna would put it).

priya varadan som