Nicholas Sparks ! You’ve turn this girl who didn’t believe in love into optimism hopeless romantic. Shame on you! Even though, this is fiction. It teaches us a valuable lesson about life and how we sometimes take life for granted. If you like the movie, you’ll love the novel a lot more- it set in 1958 in a small town of South Carolina. You’ll feel for Jamie because she’s sort of the plain Jane that helps out at the local orphanage, heals wounded animals, and is kind to everyone she meets. (You don’t see that around anymore.) Landon is simply a boy with no idea what direction his life will take when he unexpectedly finds himself becoming a man with the help of Jamie. There’s part the movie left out and I wish they added it in, like how their love blossom from the homecoming dance but then again it might be too long. Despite its very bittersweet ending, this novel teaches us faith and trust and living our lives to the fullest. The movie should have added or at least mention the part about Landon’s love for Jamie even 40 years after she's gone.
Yes, I actually picture Mandy as Jamie and of course Shane as Landon. Jamie and Landon are wonderful characters that will make you laugh and cry. Especially when Jamie finally tells Landon that she has terminal leukemia and has stopped responding to treatments. Where she’s not afraid to die but to leave Landon, I was in tears. Mainly because it reminded me of an auntie who passed away from cancer a few years back, she wanted to live because she had an infant son-her only one. =( I still remember the day we visit her in the hospital, I knew how much she missed her son but didn’t want her son to see how weak she was nor how much weight she had lost. Life really not fair at time! Lastly, as always Sparks’ novel teach us about tragedy, triumph, and also teaches a real lesson about love and life-cherish one another. Sometimes all we need is that one person who can truly make a difference in our life.
