![]() ![]() He lives alone in a renovated plantation home with only a three-legged dog for company. When readers meet Noah, it is October of 1946-over a decade since his love affair with Allie. ![]() Sparks uses Noah and Allie’s states of mind at the start of the novel to show how their lives have been defined by their love for each other-regardless of whether they want to accept that fact or not. By showing how love comes to define Noah and Allie’s lives, Sparks ultimately suggests that love is a force which can steer one’s destiny. After a summer of love, they are torn apart when Allie’s family leaves town and Allie’s mother begins confiscating the letters Noah writes-but 14 years later, they find one another and discover that their love is stronger than ever. Indeed, when Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson meet in New Bern, North Carolina in 1932, it is love at first sight. ![]() ![]() Nicholas Sparks portrays love as an unstoppable power with the ability to change and bring purpose to one’s life. In the world of The Notebook, love overcomes all: class, logic, and even disease. ![]()
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