The Notebook

I spent a lot of time considering what movie I would watch to write this essay. I listed off the movies that I would like to watch again, and then I decided on The Notebook. I didn’t really think I could write about adolescence or children, so I thought that, maybe, I could write about the elderly. The love story that The Notebook tells is truly amazing. I love watching this movie, although I cry every time I watch it. The Notebook is about an elderly man that tells the story of his life with the one he loves the most, his wife. He is telling the story to his wife, who has Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a degenerative disease that affects a person’s memory. She has no recollection of him or their life together, or even her own children. She wrote the story of their love herself, so that when he read the story to her, she would come back to him. There are three things that I would like to discuss about this movie. First, I would like to discuss their stage of life and the theory that I believe describes their stage of life the best. Second, I would like to discuss Alzheimer’s DIsease and its affect on the main character who has it and her family. Third, I would like to discuss how at the end of the movie, they died together. I know it is a movie, but I do know that it is known that elderly people who have been together for a long time, usually die not to far apart from one another.
The first thing I wanted to discuss about the movie was their stage of life and the theory that I think best explains their stage of life. I think they were at their late adulthood/end of life stage. They had to be in their late 60’s to early 70’s. Even though that seems kind of “young” in today’s society, because of their health and the fact that they ...

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... the nurses had to give her a shot to calm her down. In the end, she was able to recognize him, and they believed their love was so strong that they could leave that place together, and they did. They died together, holding hands. It is said that some elderly couples die within minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months of each other. I believe it to be a sort of spiritual thing, a connection that can not be broken, even by death.

Works Cited

Alzheimer’s Association. (2013, December 1). Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures. Retrieved from http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_facts_and_figures.asp Married 6 decades, couple dies minutes apart. (2012, November 30). Retrieved from http://www.nbc-2.com/story/20227617/couple-of-62-years-dies Santrock, J.W. (2013). Essentials of Life-Span Development, 3rd Edition. New York, New York:
McGraw-Hill.