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**//A Walk To Remember //**
** By: Nicholas Sparks **

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__ 1.) "You have to promise me that you won't fall in love with me." __
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__2.) "Do you ever just sit around and listen to the sounds? Like the crickets chirping, or the rustling of leaves when the wind blows? Or do you ever just lie on your back and stare at the stars?" __

__3.) "Well, I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith." __




 * //__ Some reviews from the critics- __//**
 * "A shameless, compassionate tearjerker about hope, inspiration and courage." -Booklist. ****

"An adolescent romance we've seen a million times before." -Publishers Weekly. ** "Bittersweet . . . a tragic yet spiritual love story." - People. ** ** 1.) I chose this quote because it is when Landon is asking Jamie to the homecoming dance. He ran to her house because he didn't want Carey Dennison to beat him to asking Jamie. When he reached Jamie's house, he knocked on the door and Jamie opened. After some brief chatting, Landon asked Jamie to the dance and she accepted. After she accepted, Landon was overjoyed, and when he walked away, he had the feeling that Jamie had a slight smile on her face, just like he did. This would be the beginning of Jamie and Landons travel from friendship to love. From that point forward, Jamie and Landon would fall even more in love. **
 * ​ "A sweet tale of young yet everlasting love." -Chicago Sun-Times.**
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**2.) I chose this quote because it is at the part of the story when Jamie and Landon are going to the cemetary to just sit, talk, and look at the stars. Jamie loves to study the stars so Landon thought it would be a good place to go and Jamie would enjoy it. When they are on their way to the cemetary, Jamie asks Landon if it is true that he and his friends sometimes go to the graveyard at night. He admits it and says that they go there to eat boiled peanuts, talk, and joke around. It isn't just a graveyard to Landon. It's a place to hangout and get away from everything. After Landon replies, Jamie assumes that they knock over tombstones and leave their trash laying around, and Landon has a comeback for that. That's when she says the quote and that's the first time Landon ever really thought that maybe Jamie wasn't so bad after all. She isn't just a nerd who hides behind her bible, but a teenaged girl who has a life too. This is when Landon began to wonder if he and Jamie could end up together.

3.) I chose this quote because it is when Jamie and Landon are talking about God. Jamie asked Landon what he thought about God and he pictured a giant man hovering over the land wearing a white robe. But after he thought about it for a while, he realized that Jamie wasn't talking about what he thought about him. She was talking about the Lord's plan. When Jamie asked Landon why he thought things turn out the way they do he kept thinking it over in his head. Jamie started to go on, talking about how things end up, sometimes for better, some for worse. This is when Landon said the quote and felt good about himself for saying such a well thought out phrase. Landon could see on Jamie's face that she was started to understand that Landon isn't just a normal guy. He was someone who cared. ** Explanations of the pictures: __//**
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 * 1.) I chose the picture of the white church because it symbolizes alot. Jamie and Landon have gone to this same church together since they were very young. Even though they don't talk much, when they are at church, they feel as though they have been talking every minute. Every Sunday, Jamie and Landon come to church and this is the day when they feel like nothing can stop them from being friends. Also, this is the place where Landon comes to ask Hegbert, Jamie's father if he can take his daughter out on a date. Landon also expresses his love for Jamie to her dad in the church. In this very church is where Jamie and Landon are married, too. It was the happiest day of Landon's life.**


 * 2.) I chose this picture from the movie, //A Walk to Remember//, because it shows Jamie lying in her bed with all the tubes and machines hooked up to her. She knew she was sick, but all of a sudden, she took a turn for the worse. When Landon sees Jamie lying there, helpless in her bed, it hurts him. This is the only girl he has ever loved and there she is, lying alone in her bed, just wasting the minutes until she won't be with him any longer. Not only does it hurt Landon, but it hurts Jamie because one, she is in pain because of all the things hooked up to her and also becaseu of the pain that the medicine isn't helping. She feels bad because she didn't tell Landon she was sick and then all of a sudden, she can't be with him any more. It is the turning point in the book also. **

**I chose this video not only because it is the trailer of the movie of my book, but because** **it is a good example to sum up my book. It shows the main parts of my book, although some of them aren't in my book, but it's close. It shows how Landon and Jamie fell for each other, and also how they didn't always agree on everything. In fact, they had their ups and downs. but who doesn't? You can't and won't always agree on every little thing. It's part of life. Also, the video shows how with two little words can change your relationship with someone you love. Lastly, it showed that if you want something bad enough, and try hard enough, you might just get it. Landon never believed in miracles, but after meeting Jamie, he did. One person can teach you a million things, and that is the main lesson learned in this book.**
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