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The Notebook by: Nicholas Sparks Page by: Madi Nelson

At 31, Noah Calhoun, back in Coastal North Carolina after World War Two, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At 29, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy long ago who stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so endearing and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...



1. I picked this picture because it is a notebook. The notebook in the book //The Notebook// symbolizes the love between Allie and Noah even after Allie begins to lose her memory. The notebook is filled with letters and love notes between Noah and Allie that Noah reads to Allie everyday to try to get her memory back. Also, on bad days when Allie can't remember anything, Noah reads the letter to feel better. I think that this notebook is very important because it symbolizes love, a very important theme in the book. Love, in this book, is an endearing thing that shows how much Allie and Noah really do care for each other and understand each other although they are from two very different worlds.



2. I picked this picture because it is of Allie and Noah from the book //The Notebook// and it shows how much they are attracted to each other even though they come from different worlds. Allie is a rich girl from the city, and Noah is just a farmer from a small town, but even though they were pulled apart as teens in love, they found their way back to each other through love and destiny. They continue to live their lives pulled away from one another, although they finally make a decision that changes their lives for the better. They are pulled apart many times throughout this book, although, in the end, they safely make their way back into each others arms.

"Proves that good things come in small packages... A classic tale of love." -Christian Science Monitor

"In times of grief and sorrow i will hold you and rock you, take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, i cry, and when you hurt, i hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life." -Noah to Allie The Notebook by: Nicholas Sparks.

I picked this quote because it explains just how Allie and Noah really feel for each other and how they love each other so very much. I think it goes without showing that Noah and Allie have way more love for each other than meets the eye. Throughout the whole book, Noah and Allie understand and show that they have differences, but they don't let it get in their way. When they get pulled apart, they try with all of their might to get back into each others arms and love one another again. Allie and Noah know that they both love each other and they know how much they love each other, so they remember what they want (as in each other) and go for it.

I picked this picture because i think it symbolizes the setting of this book. The setting is in New Bern, North Carolina, but mostly in Noah's house. Noah got this house in the inheritance that his old boss left him. Noah is also fixing up this house when Allie comes over to visit for the first time after they had been apart. Noah and Allie both really like the house, too. This is also where they have their first and second date in the story. This picture symbolizes the home that Allie and Noah have made together. It also symbolizes their first fight because this is where their first fight begins at.

media type="youtube" key="S3G3fILPQAU" height="340" width="560" I picked this movie because it is the trailer for the movie of this book. It shows the similarities and differences of the book and the movie, which I think is really neat to look at. Also it shows the love that Allie and Noah have even when they are apart. This is really cool because they don't care what anybody else says about how different they are, but they know how much they love each other. There are some differences, though. In the book, Allie knows Noah much better than she does in the movie. She knows that she's met him before, but she doesn't remember exactly how she knows him. Also, in the movie, Allie talks a lot more to Fin than she does in the book.

"Spark's debut is a contender in the Robert Waller book sweeps for most shamelessly sentimental love story, with honorable mention for highest octane schmaltz throughout an extended narrative.....An epic of treacle, an ocean of tears, made possible by a perfect, ideal, unalloyed absence of humor. Destined, positively, for success."

I picked this picture because it shows all the fun that Noah and Allie had throughout their young lives. They did many things together even though they were young, in love, and two very different people. Allie and Noah also understood that they could be pulled apart at any time, so they spent whatever precious time they had together. Allie especially, knew that she didn't have all the time in the world with Noah, so she had to use what time she had to continue to fall in love. Allie had fallen in love with Noah in the end, Noah had fallen in love with Allie and Allie had fallen in love with Noah.

I picked this picture because it shows the deceit between Allie and her mother. Noah wrote Allie tons of letters, but Allie never got one of them, and so she moved on with her life. She met Lon, fell in love again, and got engaged. But a few days before Allie was to wed Lon (her fiancee), she saw Noah's picture in the paper, and went back to Seabrook to see him.It was there that Allie's mother gave her all of the letters. These letters signify the love that Noah has still had for Allie for all of these years since the two broke up.

The hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them, in fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn’t want to ever forget that. ~ The Notebook

I picked this quote because it shows how Allie really loved Noah, but she never found any letters or signs that he still had feelings for her, so she picked up her life and moved on. But she still did love Noah, and that's what kept her going. She wanted to remember how he was when she saw him because she still did love him and didn't want to hurt anymore. Also, Allie didn't want to feel bad for leaving or jealous for letting Noah love someone else. She wanted to remember the man who loved her that summer and never look forward to the way things look now.  

I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common man with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough. ~ The Notebook

I picked this quote because it shows that Noah knew he was a normal guy and there wasn't anything really special about him, but he loved a woman, and he poured out his heart and soul to her, and that was enough for him to continue his life. Noah loved Allie, and through all of their hardships, they continued together. He let her know how he felt, and if that wasn't enough, she loved him too, and when life got tough, they came together and fought against life's battles together, and that was enough for Noah Calhoun.

If you want to read a novel in which the romance is grounded in something real, and the magic is truly magical, read the work of Alice Hoffman. If you want to read an upscale Harlequin romance with great crossover appeal, then read //The Notebook//.



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