Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2015

The Notebook



Hey people! :)


As to my latest blog about Nicholas Sparks, I am now going to introduce you to my favorite book of him. It's called "The Notebook" and was published in 1996. It's a romantic novel based on a true story. The book plays in North Carolina after World II.
Later they made a film out of it with the same name in 2004. The main characters are played by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling!

The book starts with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to an older woman in a nursing home:

Noah returns from World War II to the town New Bern in North Carolina. He buys an old house and starts restoring it after his father's death. Meanwhile Allie sees an article about it in a newspaper and decides to visit Noah.
Noah and Allie are meeting again after 14 years. They were having a passionate summer romance when Allie and her family were visiting the town. Their love wasn't accepted and they were separated by class. Meanwhile not seeing Noah, Allie got engaged to Lon.
Seeing each other brings a flood of old memories and strong emotions and they decide to have dinner together and talk. Allie finds out that Noah wrote letters to her, which her mother hid, so Allie thinks that Noah had forgotten about her. They talk about memories and what could have happened between them, if her mother hadn't hid his letters. At the end of the night Noah invites Allie for the next day and she decides to see him again. Her fiancé Lon tries to reach her at the hotel and begins to worry.
The next day Noah and Allie see each other again and take a canoe ride. After returning to Noah's house they confess their feelings for each other, which have never changed. They kiss and share a night with each other.
The next morning Allie's mother shows up and gives Allie the letters from Noah. Allie is torn. She loves Noah, who begs her to stay with him, but she doesn't want to hurt Lon and leaves. At the hotel her fiancé is waiting in the lobby.

The man stops reading the story and says that he's reading it to his wife who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. She doesn't recognize him anymore. The man himself is also ill, battling a third cancer, kidney failure, severe arthritis in his hands and heart disease. He resumes reading the story and describing the life of them. He had changed the names in the story, but he's Noah and she's Allie. They walk together and in the evening they have dinner and she says that she thinks Allie chose Noah in the story. She finally recognizes her husband and tells him that she loves him. They talk about everything, but after a few hours, Allie fades. She doesn't recognize him again and starts to panic. On their 49th wedding day Noah visits Allie. They are both exhausted and ill. A miracle happens and Allie recognizes him and says that she missed him.


I loved reading the book and watching the movie. It tied me down and I couldn't stop reading. In my opinion it's an amazing book/film and it's really romantic how Noah wrote down their story in a "notebook" to read it to his wife Allie. In addition it's based on a true story, the story of the grandparents of Nicholas Spark's wife.
I think you can see how people were acting earlier and how a difference in class could separate two people.
All in all I can recommend the book and hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Have a nice day
Steffi :)

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