The Notebook Links and Displays

In The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, it takes place in New Bern, North Carolina. This setting is significant because Allie and Noah met in this town when they were teenagers. They were also reunited in New Bern and spent a lot of time talking walks and going out on the water. This was also where they ending up staying for the rest of the book.

Also, the book took place in 1940, so things were very different then. They had phones and cars, but not nearly as advanced as today. They also talked about just finishing World War 2, and how many people were affected by that. 

 

 

The Notebook Recommendadtion: Checkpoint #3

I just finished the book The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It is a love story about two people, Allie and Noah, who get reunited after being apart for almost fifteen years. Allie is engaged, but when she gets to know Noah again, she debates who she should be with. On page 37, it says, "She heard the shock in his voice as he spoke, and surprising her, it all came together - being here, seeing him. She felt something twitch inside, something deep and old, something that made her dizzy for just a second. She caught herself fighting for control. she hadn't exppected this to happen, didn't want it to happen. She was engaged now. She hadn't come here for this". This book is very entertaining and hard to put down, with plot twists and cliff hangers making you want to read more. There is a lot of imagery, so you can picture everything that is happening. It is also written in third person, so you can know both character's perspectives, instead of only knowing one side of the story. The ending wasn't my favorite, but I still thought it was really good. I would recommend this book to any teenage girl who likes romance, or to anyone who likes other books and movies by Nicholas Sparks.

 



The Notebook Character

In The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, one of the main characters is All is. On page 137, Allie says, "'But I also want a happy ending without hurting anyone. And I know that if I stayed, people would be hurt. Especially Lon. I wansn't lying when I told you I loved him. He doesn't make me feel the same way you do, but I care for him, and this wouldn't be fair to him.'" This quote shows that Allie is considerate, since she cares about how Lon feels. She wants to stay with Noah, but she knows that she was already committed to Lon, and that she needs to keep a promise. She doesn't want to hurt Noah either, she wants to make everyone happy, but she knows she can't do that. She is under a lot of pressure, and she tries to make the decision that is best for everyone.

Also, on page 139 it says, "She emerged from the house minutes later with everything she'd brought and walked towards him with her head down. She handed him the drawings she had done yesterday morning." This also shows she is considerate because he told her she should start drawing again. She did, and gave him the drawings. She wanted to draw again to make him happy, and she ends up realizing how much she missed it. He is grateful for the drawings, and she made him happy.

Overall, Allie is a considerate person based on the things she does for others.

The Notebook Predictions

In The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, one of the main characters, Allie, went back to visit her ex-boyfriend, Noah, three weeks before her wedding. She didn't know why she went back, but she felt like she should. Once she got there, they were reunited, and they caught up for all of the time they had been apart. As they continued to spend time together, they both started to act they they had feelings for the other person, even though Allie was engaged. Based off of how Allie and Noah thought and interacted with each other, I predict they will get back together.

One reason why I think this is becuase of Allie's thoughts when they were first reunited. On page 37 it said, "She heard the shock in his voice as he spoke, and surprising her, it all came together - being here, seeing him. She felt something twitch inside, something deep and old, something that made her dizzy for just a second. She caught herself fighting for control. she hadn't exppected this to happen, didn't want it to happen. She was engaged now. She hadn't come here for this". In this quote, Allie is seeing Noah for the first time since she was fifteen. She remembered what it was like back then and how they were so happy, and for a second she started to develop some feelings for him again. But she snapped out of it, remembereing that she was engaged and that they were just friends.

Allie wasn't the only one who had feelings for the other person. On page 76 it said, " And sometime after midnight on that clear October evening, it all rushed inward and Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who'd aged a lifelime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes". In this quote, Allie had just left and Noah was thinking about everything that had happened. He still had feelings for Allie, but when he found out that she was engaged, she was heartbroken. After she left, like it said in the quote, he was sitting on the porch crying over her. If he was crying after one day, it will most likely get worse every time they're together.

Insurgent Theme

In the book Insurgent by Veronica Roth, there were a lot of lessons that could be learned from the characters throughout the story. Tris, the protagonist, had trouble telling the truth in the story. On page 424, it says, "He thinks I will be here, but I will be working against him, working with the father he despises. The lie - this lie is the worst I have ever told. I will never be able to take it back". She lied to the everyone - strangers, enemies, and the people who were most important to her. Tris believed that she was lying to protect the people she loved and she tried to convince herself she was doing the right thing. At some points, she was protecting them from enemies, like when Jeanine tried to kill the Dauntless, or when she kept Tobias away from his abusive dad. But other times, she lied to her friends thinking she was doing the right thing, but ended up hurting them later. When Tris teamed up with Marcus, Tobias's dad, Tobias ended up being really upset when he found out. I think a lesson Tris learned here was that telling the truth is best in the long run.

Another lesson Tris learned was to listen to what people tell you. She assumed that because of where people were from, who they were friends with, or thing that they did in the past, she shouldn't listen to or believe what they were saying. On page 413, Tris says, "'You like to be the only one that knows. You like that I don't know. It makes you feel important. That's why you won't tell me, not because it's indescribable'". If someone was from Erudite, a faction which was an enemy of her faction, she thought they couldn't be trusted. By the end of the book, some people who were the most helpful to her were from Erudite. Also, Marcus told her that he knew some valuable things, and that if she would listen to him, he could help her find it. This information could've saved her faction and kept the factions away from war, but since she had heard bad things about his past, she didn't want to listen to him. She ended up listening to what he said, and he was telling her the truth. If she would've had an open mind about all people and was willing to listen to what they had to say, she could have gotten help with a lot of things she needed.

Overall, Tris learned to tell the truth and listen to others. Both of these themes are thing that everyone can apply to their everyday lives.

Insurgent Predictions

In the book Insurgent, Veronica Roth writes very well, so you are able to make predictions. In this quote, the leader of the faction Amity says, "Johanna tilts her head so that her scar is again visible, and adds, 'I understand if this means I can't be a part of Amity anymore.' She sniffs. 'But please know that if I have to leave you, I leave you with love, rather than malice'" (445). From this quote, I think that Johanna wants to help them, but I predict that if she thinks something bad will happen to the people of her faction, she will escape. I also think that there is a situation where either the Amity or Dauntless people can be saved, and she would choose to save the Amity. I was a little bit surprised that she agreed to help them, so I wonder if she will back out.

Also, on page 452 it says, "Cars grins at him, and explains, 'If I touched you with this stunner right now, it would be extremely painful, and then it would disable you. Fernando found this out the hard way yesterday. I made it so that the Amity would have a way of defending themselves without shooting anyone'". The reason they made this was because the Amity wouldn't want to shoot anyone since they believe in peace. But because they are so peaceful, they may not even want to use this. I predict that they may end up getting killed from not defending themselves. I also predict that Tris may end up using this since she doesn't like to use guns after what she did in the past.