Title novel: The Notebook

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Publisher: Warner Vision

Year of first publication: 1996                                                                                               Number of pages: 213

Summary

Noah, an old man with a faded, well-worn notebook full of his life stories, he had a simple life but still more than any man could ask for. He met the love of his life at a festival and from that moment on he knew he would spent the rest of his life with her, Allie nelson  now an old woman with alzheimers in a nursing home. Allie’s condition gets worse every day until one day he begins to read to her. Their own story.

It begins the summer of 1932, at the festival. It was their own summer of love until allie’s parents found out. Allies father was a wealthy man with an important possition in society andnoah was just a man that worked hard to earn his money. Allies parents thought the relationship was a waste of time so they decided to go back to New York. Noah was unable to keep her in new bern and after 2 years of writing her he went up north to work at a metal scrap yard. When world war 2 began he went in the military for a few years.

Allie at this time got past her sadness and met Lon, soon she fell in love with him. After 4 years of being together Lon asked her to marry him. Wedding plans were being made,every thing was set but then Allie saw Noah in the paper. Before she knew it she was in new bern driving to his renovated plantation home asking herself what she was really doing there.

Noah who just came back from the war was extremely glad to see allie again, after she told him she was engaged and happy he lost all hope. As one thing let to another soon they were once again spending time together. Allie was lying to her fiancé and felt guilty about it but her feelings for noah grew stronger these past few days. It felt good to be with each other again until allies mother anne showed up. Her mother revealed the letters she never got and warbed her that lon, by this time very suspicious war on his way. It was a disaster as allie was forced to choose between two wonderfull men.

In the end allie made the right decision, she told lon the truth and broke of the engagement, she went back to noah that same day where he took her in with open arms.

They are now married for 49 years theve led a full life with a lot of ups and downs and even in their last days together they are more in love than ever.

Main characters

Noah CalhoThe story covers noah’s life at 17, 31 and 80 years.

He worked as a lumberjack and as a soldier.​

He was in love with allie since the first time he saw her till he died.

Loves canoeing and reading and writing poetry

Alison nelson:

Setting

The story begins in 1932, in new bern, north Carolina. Allie and noah were 15 and 17 at that time. They met each other  ata carnival in the summer of 1932.After this the the story continued after 14 years and they were 29 and 31, and in this period of time noah had worked at a lumber site in new York and was a soldier for 4 year meanwhile allie met lon in 1942 and was with him for 4 years. It was October 1946 and noahhad just returned home from the war. allie came to visit noahin new bern in November 1946. The story ends when they were both in an elderly home and noah was 80 years old.

Important parts

One of the most important parts in the story is the part whereallie has to choose between noah and lon. Noah was her first love and she would always remember him but lon also made her happy. When she went back to noah she knew there was something missing in her life. It wasn’t an easy decision but she chose noah.

Another important part in de book is the part where Noah reads to Allie in the nursing home. The story is meant to make her remember and even the doctors can’tt explain how analzheimers patient can show some improvement once in while. But Noah believes that it is the power of true love.

End of the story

In the end Noah stops reading his notbook to Allie. He spends his days walking taking walk with Allie. Allie has some good days and some bad day put Noah doesn’t give up. Noah still loves allie and he likes it when his 4 children come to visit. In the story we also learn that they lost a child. All goes well until Allie begins to panic after having a really good day with Noah. Noah tried to hide his disappointment but began to cry after a while, he was losing his Allie, the woman he loves with all his heart and he couldn’t do anything about it. The next day Noah had a stroke and he spent two weeks in the hospital. When he comes back he longs to make love to Allie again and so the story ends.