A Book Review for My Exam
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, is a very touching story about real and everlasting love. The author says that the characters in it were inspired by his wife’s grandparents, (names?), two wonderful people who spent over 60 years together. The book, however, is about Noah and Allie. They were quite young when they first meet each other. This young couple then spends one enchanted summer together. Unfortunately, that amazing time together could not continue because of their social class differences, but the memory of it stayed in their hearts forever. After the passage of 14 years, though, once again, Noah and Allie are finally reunited. Primarily, The Notebook focuses on their meeting and life together after that long separation, as well as the struggles which they encounter at the end of their lives.
The main characters of the novel are relatively ordinary people. Noah Calhoun is the son of a lumberman, while Allie Nelson is from a wealthy family. But that summer together managed to change their lives! During their later time apart, they had many barriers to overcome in order to love each other again, but against all odds, they manage to meet once more. Even though Allie had come to Noah right before her wedding, they both still felt that they were deeply in love with each other. However, she couldn’t choose between Noah and her fiancé, Lon, who was a very successful lawyer and someone who could provide for her greatly in the future. Despite her intense feelings for Noah, Allie chose to go through with the marriage to Lon, but after some time she listened to her heart and realized that she needed to be back together with the true love of her life. After she had done so, they lived their lives very happily and showed each other lots of affection. Noah and Allie eventually had many children, and later one, many grandchildren as well.
Sadly, in the end, destiny played a final devastating and cruel trick on them. Allie was stricken with a terrible disease--Alzheimer’s--she slowly lost her memory and eventually, she couldn’t even remember who Noah was anymore. Even though Noah was in poor health too, he kept his hopes up. He read to Allie from his notebook, over and over, again and again, as much for himself as for her, in order for them to exist together as they had been, even if only on paper. Noah and Allie fell in love as teenagers and died with this love for each other at the end of their lives.
In conclusion, this book has personally taught me a lot, for instance, how much we should care about the people we love. In spite of Allie’s illness, and whatever the personal hardships and sacrifices it involved to him, as well as dealing with his own ailments, Noah was always there for her. I do honestly believe that love like this does exist in real life, and I do also believe that I, myself, will someday receive such an amazing gift of it as well.
Hi Anna! Good job! Whatever changes that I’ve made were merely done to allow your sentences to sound more natural to my native ears. I hope that this helps you. J.
P.S. I, too, sincerely hope that you will find such a wonderful, selfless, person who loves you in your life as well!
