The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks Noah Calhoun The narrator of the book and the main character‚ Noah is a good and kind man who fell in love with Allie fourteen years before the novel opens. He has never forgotten her and is overwhelmed with how much he still loves her when she returns to tell him she is engaged. Allison Nelson A young woman who comes from a privileged family‚ she spends a wonderful summer with Noah when they are young‚ but is forced to leave when her parents disapprove. She
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profoundly. In the novel‚ Allie’s parents are the external conflict between Allie and Noah‚ but Allie’s love for Noah is adamant which leads her betraying her parents. She says to Noah‚ “I don’t care what my parents think‚ I love you and always will‚ [...] We’ll find a way to be together.” (Sparks 14) This quote implies that Allie is going to go against her parent’s will of them not being together. Her love for Noah has got the better of her feelings for her parents which lead to her betraying their
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The reason I love this movie so much is because that main characters Noah and Allie go through so many trials and finally end up together in the end. This movie I feel shows me how strong their love for each other really was and I now feel as if it is meant to be it will always find a way. Looking at the movie as a reference to get a better understanding of how lifespan development works‚ I realized that most of the trials that Noah and Allie went though were part of stages of development. The theory
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The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks "I am nothing special‚ of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life... but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul‚ and to me‚ this has always been enough. -Noah Calhoun When we were assinged to do a book critique‚ I knew right away I was going to do a Nicholas Sparks novel. I have read all of his books‚ cried many tears and felt many emotions as I pictured the people falling in love‚ people doing heroic events
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Allie and Noah (Allie’s husband) stay. Allie needs to be there for care‚ but Noah doesn’t. He stays to help care for her. He reads to her from a notebook about their life together. He hopes this will help her remember him‚ because her disease has progressed so that she doesn’t remember him or her children. Allie believes that Noah’s name is Duke; he tells her that because of the confusion which Alzheimer’s disease causes she believes that this is a story about another couple. Noah reads that
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identity of being Noah until the end. Here is the short version of the story. While spending one summer with her wealthy parents at their second home‚ a young lady named Allie falls in love with a poor commoner Noah. Noah and Allie spend a magical summer together falling in love‚ but her parents and the socio-economic realities of the time period prevent them from being together. Allie’s overbearing parents rush to leave town to separate her from her new found love. Although Noah writes a letter
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the rains stop‚ the flood waters finally recede‚ dry land is found allowing Noah and his family along with all of the animals to leave the ark. Just like
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it a chance to grow as we get to know someone” (34-35). This stage can last a short while or it can continue indefinitely. In the movie‚ “The Notebook” Noah met Allie for the first time at a carnival with some of his friends. The attraction he felt for her was remarkable and he knew before his next breath that he could spend his life with her. Noah did whatever he could to get her to go out with him. He even went to the extreme to jump on a ferrous-wheel ride to ask her out on a date‚ because he was
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teenage boy‚ Noah Calhoun falls in love at first sight with an upper class girl‚ Allie Nelson (Hamilton-in film). Torn apart at the end of the summer‚ they both go their separate ways; Noah enrolls himself into the army‚ to fight in World War II‚ while Allie volunteers as a nurse helping the victims of World War II. Allie ends up becoming engaged with a lawyer‚ Lon Hammond who is a part of a wealthy southern family and also the perfect husband in her parent’s eyes. Several years pass before Noah and Allie
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Nicholas Sparks Today I will be talking to you about a famous movie and novel The Notebook. It is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love and a story that will make you believe in miracles. Like a puzzle within a puzzle‚ the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds‚ their tale amazingly becomes something different‚ with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself‚ the tender moments and the important changes in their relationship affect
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