Thursday, August 15, 2013

Reading Response to The Notebook


Reading The Notebook made me realize a pattern in all of the other Nicholas Sparks books.  The similarities are more within the plot line with characters and settings more than the little details. As I've noticed, Nicholas Sparks' books always happen to be set in North Carolina, some place by water, and particularly about a summer romance. The main two characters being a boy and girl, one of them happens to be coming from a family with money, high-class, and choosy parents, like the character Allie in The Notebook. Another character happens to be coming from a single-parent home with not as much money and not as prestigious, describing Noah, another main character of the book. 

In between their summer romance, there comes a climax in the story from when the two are so happily in love, to being disturbed by what I found it to usually be from the home where the set of parents are, which refers to Allie's parents in The Notebook. Another interesting pattern I noticed was that the single-parent figure ends up passing away. It is also when the two lovers have broken up in some sort of way, like how when Allie comes back to her hometown with her fiancé to find out that Noah’s dad passed away.  When I think about it, it is just a repetitive theme of the author Nicholas Spark, which I love noticing and comparing the connections.

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