This book began in a nursing home with Duke reading to an
older woman, whose memory was slipping from her more and more everyday because
of Alzheimer disease. Then, this story began with Allie, a 17 years old girl
who was spending her summer time with Noah. However, they have to separate
because of Allie's parents don't allow her to get a close relationship with
Noah. During Allie waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets
and get engaged to a handsome young soldier named, Lon. Before Lon and Allie
got married, Allie met with Noah. It makes Allie had to choose between them and
he chose Noah, her first love.
The use of proper language was an important thing in making a great
novel. Even it was Sparks’s first experiences in publishing novel he showed
that he was able to write a great work. His way in describing the situation,
characters feeling or thought was great because we can be easy to imagine the
situation. Indeed, this novel does not only present an easy way in describing
the situation, but also several great values that can be used in our life and relationship.
The first value that we can get from this novel is the meaning of love. Love
is not merely about passion, sex, or another thing but love is about sacrifice,
struggle, and faithfulness. It was shown in the main male character, Noah who
still able to love his lover even they have been separated for 14 years. It absolutely
wasn’t an easy thing
for a man. In fact, some people have affair, eventhough they had been married.
Nowadays, we often saw many couple got divorce. Implicitly, this novel wanted to give another
value to the readers about marriage.
This novel told that Noah and Allie were able to keep the integrity of their
household until 30 years. Moreover, Noah can live with Allie in nursing house
and helped her to heal her disease. This is shown that
actually love wasn’t a thing that can be disappeared because of time but
because of the people who indirectly try to disappear that love.
The last value which was shown in this novel is about another sense of
happiness. Allie had a kind, handsome and rich fiancee but she still chose an ordinary man as Noah. It shows that happiness actually was
simple. We don’t need to get every perfect thing to make us get happiness we
just need to be happy to make a perfect life.
This novel is one of the great novels of Nicholas Sparks.
Perhaps, for some people it is a
romantic love or melancholy story. However, as long as we can take a several
value of this novel, it can be useful for us to make a great relationship with
our partner. The use of easy words helps the readers to understand more about
the character feeling and thought. Because those reasons, I confidently suggest
you to read this novel. Finally, I can guarantee you beside an entertain
reading, you can take an advantage from this love story too.
Composed by : Yuliana
Composed by : Yuliana
