The Notebook: love/loss/illness
- · Story about two people Noah and Ally who meet and have a summer romance. Noah however is so desperately in love with ally he cannot let go that she has moved on.
- · He is drafted into the war and once he leaves his father, whom he is very close to, has died. Without any family Noah buys and old run down house and works on it to turn it into the dream home. Without any company and his dream home which he fixed to have a family in Noah becomes lonely.
- · The continual reference to letters and the hundreds he wrote ally over the summer and after she is gone are used to demonstrate his pure adoration for her even though she doesn't ever write back.
- · The use of time switching is frequent offering the alternative storyline running parallel to the current where Noah and ally are in present time at a nursing home. Ally has Autzheimer's and remembers nothing prompting Noah to read her the story of their lives together each day until she remembers.
- · This book once again demonstrates the concept of love through loss and the ability to love through loss as Noah loses her more than once.
- Similarly the concept of sadness and love intertwined to present a slight theme of grief due to the loss of memory. Does she still love him even though she doesn't know who Noah is? and can he still love her even though she is not the same person?
This book really addresses the concept of love through loss
and love through sacrifice. The idea of grief or sadness being an unconventional expression of love is the theme I am interested in. Nicholas Sparks the author of the notebook is renowned for his writing of romances and so for the rest of the summer I read 2 of his other famous romances, along with two Jane Austen books and a book by Sarah Dessen called the truth about forever. I Will try and blog these notes at a later date if the computer will let me because it deletes my posts after a few days.
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