"Runs in 1958. Landon Carter is the typical high school student. The only thing you are interested in is going out with his friends, spend the shortest possible time in school and enjoy the last years of freedom before going to the University. Jamie Sullivan, on the other hand, is not an ordinary girl. Does not come out at night, does not go to parties or makeup as do the other girls of her age. Daughter of the pastor of the village, you pass the lunch time reading the Bible, the afternoons as a volunteer in an orphanage and summers at the camp of the parish. There could be two more different people. Until one Christmas night, everything changes. In barely a month, Landon will discover things that leads a life learns to learn truths about the nature of beauty, the joy of living, the pain of loss and, above all, the real and miraculous power of first love..."
Summary
Fifty-seven-year-old Landon Carter narrates the novel, reflecting on events from 40 years in the past. The novel opens with a Prologue, in which the older Landon, living in the same North Carolina town as he did at the age of 17, stands near the Baptist church that figures prominently in the novel and gets himself in the mindset of his 17-year-old self. The story begins in 1958 and is, Landon tells us, both joyful and sad.
Writing
Sparks wrote the manuscripts for A Walk to Remember, his third novel, in the summer of 1998. He wrote it in North Carolina, which is the setting of the novel. Like his first published novel The Notebook, the prologue to A Walk to Remember was written last. The title A Walk to Remember was taken from one of the tail end pages of the novel: "In every way, a walk to remember." The novel is written in first-person, and its narrator is a seventeen year-old boy, living in the 1950s.
The novel was inspired by Sparks' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who later died of cancer in June 2000. Although the story is largely fictional, certain parts were based on real experiences. For example, his sister, just like Jamie, was never popular at school and always wore an ugly sweater. And just like Jamie, she always carried the Bible around with her every where she went. And just like Landon and Jamie, never in a thousand years did anyone think he would ever deeply fall head-over-heels for her. His sister's husband proposed marriage to her despite her sickness. After her death, Sparks said in the eulogy: "... I suppose I wrote this novel not only so that you could get to know my sister, but so that you would know what a wonderful thing it was that her husband once did for her."
Review
"A Walk To Remember, written by Nicholas Sparks is a truly wonderful love story that will touch many reader’s heart just like it did to me. After watching the film version of the book, I just had to pick up the book and I could not put it down. This book has become one of my favourite books. This romance story had really touched everyone’s heart about the true nature of love. This story is about a fifty- seven years old man looking back at his past which he will never forget. This man is Landon Carter. He takes there ader back to 1958 in the town of Beaufort, North Carolina when he was just 17 years old. In high school he chooses drama class than chemistry class thinking it will be easier for him. In the class there was a girl called Jamie Sullivan, a minister’s daughter. He and Jamie grew up together but were never really friends. Jamie was a good girl. She prefers going to the orphanage to help the kids and reading her Bible to socializing and going to the movies. Jamie asked Landon to be the lead role of the play since no one wanted to do it. Since the play was very important to Jamie and not wanting to hurt her, he agreed. They both became closer to one another. Being the president of his high school, Landon must find a date to the dance to fulfill his duties. After desperately searching for a date, he came to a conclusion that he had to ask Jamie Sullivan since there was no one left. Jamie accepts his proposal to the dance. Landon slowly realises that he has fallen in love with the most unlikely girl. After many dates, Landon finally learns that Jamie had terminal leukemia and has stopped responding to treatment. Landon wants to fulfill Jamie’s wish list example by building a telescope so she can see a comet. Through this process,
Landon and Jamie learn more about the nature of love. The book ends with Jamie's death, but only after the couple are married in the same chapel as was Jamie's deceased mother, the event that topped Jamie's wish list. This book has taught me a lesson that with love and support you can go through anything. I will recommend that everyone should pick upthis book and trust me that you won’t regret it. Now I will end this phrase “Love is like the wind. You can't see it but you can feel it.”
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