Dear John and The Notebook have very similar and different aspects. They both
have similar way the two main characters met. In both stories they have similar ways that
one of the main characters has to leave. Another thing they have in common is how
someone in both stories have to move on from the person they love. The two stories have
differences too however. In both stories one of the characters goes back and tries to find
the other one, but what happens when they do is completely different. Overall the two
books have very similar and very different aspects.
Noah was a very hard working guy. He also loved his dad very much. His dad
taught him how to read well and since then he grew to love it. He never had many
girlfriends and never had fallen in love, until he met Allie. Allie was a beautiful girl, and
was called it since she was little (Sparks 19). She got most of her looks from her mom.
Allies family was high class. They believe in accomplishments and goals in life, and they
wanted that for their daughter.
John was born in 1977 and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina (Sparks 9).
John and Noah grew up in similar ways. Neither of them grew up rich and just with a
father raising them. Also they both loved their dad very much. In high school John
became a rebel and his grades were really bad. Also him and his father were not as close
anymore. On the other hand Noah never went through a wild stage and him and his father
were always close. John’s dad followed a routine and would do things in advance
(Sparks 12 and 14 and 17). He also enjoyed coins. He mostly would only talk about
coins, because that’s all he knew to talk about. John and his dad were v...
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true love, and true love is more important than social class (Sparks 187). In Dear John
Savannah ends up marrying Tim. John ends up using all the money he had left after his
fathers death to help out Tim, because he had gotten cancer, and over the years it had
gotten worse. He did all this out of the true love he still felt for Savannah. He knew to
make her happy he needed to help Tim, and he just wanted what was best for her (Sparks
279).
So in conclusion both stories have very similar and very different aspects. Their
characters are both very similar in both stories. The love interest in both stories were also
very similar. However the ending of both stories are completely different. The Notebook
has a much more happy ending for the couples, unlike Dear John. Overall both books are
more similar then different.
... almost nothing alike from a superficial aspect. The stories have different historical contexts and they simply don’t have much in common to the average audience. It is easy to contrast the stories, but deep within certain elements, the stories can be linked in several ways.
time of their works, they both had many similarities in the theme of their stories and their goals of writing the stories.
The plot of both stories is quite similar. They are both about hunting larger prey to
works of literature have tremendous amounts of similarity especially in the characters. Each character is usually unique and symbolizes the quality of a person in the real world. But in both stories, each character was alike, they represented honor, loyalty, chivalry, strength and wisdom. Each character is faced with a difficult decision as well as a journey in which they have to determine how to save their own lives. Both these pieces of literatures are exquisite and extremely interesting in their own ways.
had. He had a very hard and painful childhood. He was treated very harshly by his family
A third similarity is both endings are purposely incomplete. These two stories are left on a cliffhanger; Margot gets let out of the closet, and you don’t know how fatal the throwing of stones at Tessie
At first sight, the two main characters appear completely different, but we soon realize that their lives are very linked.
chooses Noah and his family to be the only survivors after the flood that wipes
identical. Both characters were in isolation prior to the initial plot of the books, but for
John as we know today was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. He was also the brother of James, who was also an apostle. John was the son of Zeebee and of Salome. His father was a fisherman while living in Bethsaida in Galilee on the border of the lake Gennesareth. John's mother was one of many women who gave to the maintenance of Jesus Christ. John's parents were very good people, they loved God and his son. It is said that john and his brother James were fishing when Jesus came and chose them. They were soon known as the fishers of men. The John of whom I am talking about is John the Evangelist.
He helped raise his family and had an effect on sibling and how they were brought up. His two
To begin with, I will begin with a brief summary of both stories in order to better
The man, Noah, is a poet in Allie's eyes and he expresses love as, "Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; With splendid dawn, your face aglow I reach for you and find my heart" (183). As teenagers, the two of these "love birds" had one summer of intense passion that was ended abruptly by Allie's parents disapproval. When Allie left New Bern the couple planned to keep in touch by writing letters, but because Allie's moms did not approve of Noah, she hid all his letters from her without Allie knowing. Noah continued to write but without a reply, his hopes dissolved. While Noah sat on his porch playing his guitar with his three-legged dog Clem, he reminisced about the adventures they had, foreshadowing the events that followed. "And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together" (151). There are surprises one would never expect and descriptions that one can't even imagine; they pull the reader in and paint a picture in the mind. This novel will make the reader cry, gasp, sigh, and cry once more.
In the film, when Noah is telling the story of creation, he says “In the beginning, there was nothing,” but Genesis 1:1 says “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” He also said “Adam and Eve had three sons,” but Genesis 5:4 says “Adam and Even had Cain, Abel, Seth, and other sons and daughters.” In the film Japheth is Noah’s youngest son, but Genesis 9:24 says that Ham is Noah’s youngest son. Japheth in the movie also releases the raven, but Genesis 9:7 says that Noah released the raven. And, as stated before, in the film Noah built the Ark to save the animals, but in the Bible Noah was commanded to build the Ark to save humanity and the animals. Albeit these details prior to the last one might be small, they show that the director and his co-writer Ari Handel blatantly and deliberately lied about details of the Biblical story of Noah (Patterson, Chaffey, 2014).