Mark Tristan Angelo Morena Cabatac
IV- Madame Marie Curie
A Walk To Remember
I. Introduction
A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks. He was born on December 31, 1965. He is an internationally best selling American author. He writes novels with themes that include Christianity, love, tragedy, and fate. He is currently the author of 12 published novels; including: Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and The Notebook. He lives in New Bern, North Carolina with his wife Catherine and their five children.
It is inspired by his sister’s life and courage. The story takes place in the real-life city of Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1958 and 1959. Beaufort is a small coastal port city that was established in 1722. The story is about love that conquers all. It shows how love and faith can change a person. The novel was written in 1998 and it spent almost six months for the best-seller hardcover and four months on the paperback best-seller list. When you read it, you will laugh… but then you will cry…
II. Summary, Theme, Characters
Nicholas Sparks writes about a young man and woman in 1958 on the coast in Morehead City in Beaufort, North Carolina. This is the story of their first love. Morehead City is the type of town where the kids walk around barefoot from April through October and the townspeople wave hello from their cars whether they know the person or not. Landon Carter is a seventeen-year-old high school senior whose father is a United States congressman. He and his father are strangers --- his father is on the road quite a bit of the time and he spends the majority of time being raised by his mother. His father insists that he needs to run for student body president to increase his chances of getting into a good college. His father believes that "We Carters always win" and he wants to mold Landon into a miniature version of himself.
Landon wins the election and one of his responsibilities is attending the homecoming dance. Due to the fact he has just broken up with his girlfriend, he doesn't have a date and in a panic, he pulls out his yearbook and scans the pages for someone available. He finally decides on Jamie Sullivan, a junior, who is the minister's daughter, knowing that nobody else will ask her to the dance. Jamie wears old sweaters, plaid skirts and her hair up in a bun. She carries the Bible wherever she goes and believes that whatever happens in life is according to the Lord's plan. She is obviously not your typical high school student and not someone in whom Landon or his friends would be interested.
Both Landon and Jamie star in the school Christmas play that Jamie's father has written. The play details the personal story of his life after his wife's death and his search for love and the meaning of life within his daughter. Jamie plays the angel and Landon, the lead male role. Over time, in rehearsals and occasional talks together on her front porch, Landon starts to like Jamie. As a result, he becomes a better person, helping her do good deeds and accompanying her to the orphanage. The opening night of the play, he is amazed when he first sees her walk on the stage dressed as an angel, with her hair loose and flowing down her back. She glitters onstage and he falls for her true beauty.
After many dates, Landon finally learns that Jamie had terminal leukemia and has stopped responding to treatment. Landon wants to fulfill Jamie’s wish list example by building a telescope so she can see a comet. Through this process, Landon and Jamie learn more about the nature of love. The book ends with Jamie's death, but only after the couple are married in the same chapel as was Jamie's deceased mother, the event that topped Jamie's wish list.
There are many themes that revolves around the novel and these are love conquers all, God’s plan, change, and faith.
The characters are Landon Carter, a 57 year old man who narrates the story of his seventeenth year, Jaime Sullivan, a daughter of a Baptist minister and changed the life of Landon, Hegbert, the father of Jaime who tries to discourage the couple being together, Worth Carter, Landon’s Father and a local congressman, Eric Hunter, Landon’s very supportive best friend.
III. Analysis
His writing style manages to both pull in the reader and touch their heart. An example of this would be how he introduces you to each of the characters so you get to know them in-depth. He writes with deep emotion and really knows how to express feelings in an array of situations. As you start to get into the book you learn to love the characters and feel as if they are real people by the way Sparks writes. Something I could learn from this author could be to have a more positive outlook on life and to live it to the fullest because you never know when it will end.
I believe his purpose for writing this piece was to show how opinions and special feelings for certain people can change in a short period of time. I think this because we seem to judge people before getting to know them. From reading this book it has shown me to not judge people from what they look like on the outside because they can turn out to be the complete opposite of what you imagined them as.
IV. Evaluation
The strength of the novel is its very emotional scheme. And when you it, you’ll never regret reading it. The themes are applicable to everyone.
For the novel’s weakness, there’s not much of it maybe it’s just the simplicity of the story and the events are easily predictable.
The book left an inspiration to the youth and to everyone. It gives a great idea to change a person and it shows how miracle happens.
I can relate to the story, because there are events that occurred in my own life. I am just a quite person and an anti-social one but she changed me to a more sociable person. But it turned out that she didn’t change at all. She’s still lazy and she always comes to school late. And now we broke up I hope someone will change her into a better one.
Some walk to go away and some walk to enter our lives. But either way, if we walk to remember, we will see ourselves of how we do in our own lives. We can see what great things we’ve done to change a person’s life even your time ended so soon.
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