A summer
romance is like a roller coaster full of emotions. That is three months of good
times and bad, and many nights filled with tears and smiles. The Notebook, by
Nicholas Sparks, starts with two strangers, Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton,
who meet at a carnival…
Noah meets
Allie who basically refuses to have any sort of connection with him at all. She
is doing what a typical girl does and plays hard to get. Noah then does
something most men wouldn’t do, he runs on to the Farris Wheel and basically hangs
onto a bar and threatens to let go and fall to his death is Allie doesn’t say
“I want to go on a date with you”. From there that would be the beginning of
stage one—the good times.
From then
on they would spend every possible moment together doing various activities
like going for ice cream, swimming, and reading poetry. However as they spent
more time with each other, they began to fight all the time, which is beginning
of stage two- the bad times.
Stage one
and stage two would overlap quite often, but would soon be resolved because of
the passion each one of them had for each other. Allies parents disapproved of
this “summer romance” because they strongly believed that Noah wasn’t good
enough for their daughter Allie. Allie would scream and yell at her parents for
what she had with Noah. She would tell them that they were in love, and she
needed to be with him. But they wouldn’t have it.
Allie and
Noah would also spend time talking about their hopes and dreams for the future,
discussing their likes and dislikes, really getting to know each other. She
would even sneak out of her window to spend time with Noah since her parents
would disapprove.
The summer
romance between Allie and Noah came to an end one night after her parents found
out she was gone and the police were out looking for her. Noah and Allie got
into a fight and broke up, the next day Allie and her parents packed up and
left. Stage three—the bad times and tears. The difference between stage two and
stage three is that stage three doesn’t get good again.
However,
the summer romance between Noah and Allie is only the beginning of what is to
come. The book is full of surprises.
