Analysis Of The Notebook

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PLOT SYNOPOSIS: The Notebook is a modern day love story that was written by Nicholas Sparks. The story begins with you thinking it is going to be about a man living in a nursing home that reads to other patients. The man’s journal readings flashback to the 1930’s and 1940’s. I felt the storyline was the typical rich girl’s parents do not approve of her dating a boy from lower class in the Pre-World War II era. The story flashes back to a couples younger years and moves forward to the nursing home in 1995.

The book is set mainly in New Bern, North Carolina. The 15 year old rich girl character is Allison Nelson. Her friends, Fin and Sarah, introduce her to 17 year old Noah Calhoun. Anne Nelson is Allison’s mother. She keeps Noah’s letters that come in the mail each month secret from Allison. Fourteen years later, Allison sees an article in the newspaper about Noah restoring an old plantation house. Allison goes back to see Noah, but she is engaged to Lon Hammond, Jr, a lawyer from a good family. Allison spends a few days with Noah and realizes she still loves him. Anne gives Allison all the unopened letters that had arrived from …show more content…

First point is after meeting, they had to make it through her parents’ disapproval, their different backgrounds and different economic statuses. Second point is they are separated for many years. Her mom wants her to change, Noah works and goes to war, and tries to get over his love for Allison. When she returns she is engaged to another man, but their love was stronger. Third point is that their lives together still included hard times. Their son died, they became elderly, but lived in the same nursing home where Allison suffers from Alzheimer’s. She is still able to occasionally remember Noah and the doctors do not know how in her late stages of the disease. Their love remained strong through every difficult stage all the way to their

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