The Notebook Essays

The movie “The Notebook” is based on the best selling novel written by Nicholas Sparks. The love story that this film tells is an absolutely beautiful one. And although I cry each time, I enjoy over and over. The Notebook is about an elderly man (Noah) who is telling the story of his life to the one he loves, his wife (Allie). Allie has irreversible dementia which has been caused by her having Alzheimer’s Disease. “Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of irreversible dementia, accounting

Despite it has not been fully proven, many readers believe that Go Ask Alice was written by an American Therapist and Mormon youth counselor Beatriz Ruby Mathews Sparks. The book has been banned and or challenged on multiple occasions for its constant drug use reference, teen pregnancy, prostitution, sexual activity, and rape (Sparks). According to Wikipedia.com, Sparks was born January 15, 1917 in Goldberg Idaho, but later moved and was raised in Logan, Utah. She began working with teens in 1955

book, The Notebook, which was published in 1996. “The Notebook is about a man who reads to an old woman he visits from a faded notebook that tells the story of a couple who are separated by World War II, then passionately reunited years later. It is a story of love, loss, and rediscovery for both the young and the old” (Miller). It is insane to think that Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28 (The Uprising Creative). The Notebook was one of

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to look down from heaven after you were murdered, and see the people who loved you try and figure out your murder? The Lovely Bones, written by Alice Sebold, pulls readers in with its vivacious storyline to find out who killed the main character. The story takes place in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and it follows a teenage girl, named Susie Salmon, who watches from her heaven, as her family struggles to find out her killer. In conclusion, Alice Sebold uses many

Night contains a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? How does it affect the reading experience? Why did Wiesel make that specific choice?) Please use a different type of figurative language for each example. Night contains what seems like a multitude of examples of figurative language, but for this question I had to narrow

In elementary school, I read the tale “Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes” when my obsession for origami first manifested. In the story, anyone that folds a thousand cranes is granted a wish. Being a gullible child, I was fascinated by this legend and in turn, attempted to fold as many cranes as I could, measuring my hours and days by how many I could create. As I grew older, the moral of the cultural myth has stuck with me. The cranes now are a materialistic representation of the time and effort

Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley is about Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster. He takes the limbs of dead bodies and makes his own creature. He spends years in Ingolstadt isolating himself from the world in order that he can focus on creating this being. He doesn’t write to his loved ones back at home or even take care of his own health. All he cares about at this point is to discover something no one else has before him. When the Creature comes to life, Victor sees how ugly and terrifying

In Joan Didion essay "On Keeping a Notebook," Joan Didion discusses the need of having a notebook to record one's thoughts, ideas, and experiences. According to Didion, a notebook can be used to understand the world around us as well as a tool for personal growth and development. She employs a variety of rhetorical methods to convey her views and convince the reader of the value of keeping a notebook. One of the primary key concepts of rhetorical strategies Didion used is Repetition. Throughout the

of the above appears related to a Kate Spade notebook, I have realised over the years that I was more inclined to take good and selective notes when writing on a surface that I find pleasing. If it is true that in this day and age most students prefer to work from their laptop, I enjoy the convenience of working with both laptops and “classical” notebooks. This large spiral notebook by Kate Spade New York is everything I like when it comes to notebooks: it is artistically pleasing, large and contains

The Notebook, directed by Nick Cassavetes, (2004) is a film that portrays young love and struggles. The Lucky One, directed by Scott Hicks, (2012) shows that fate and love does exist. These two movies are similar, and they both show how young relationships can always find a way. The TIME article written by Eben Harrell, “Are Romance Movies Bad For You?” (2008) talks about how romance movies can affect young people. This article connect the two movies together by showing how realistically they portray

is given the notion that love can tackle any obstacle, including illness. Despite her disease, Allie is able to remember Noah and the love that they have for one another seems to take them to heaven together in their sleep. By its filmmakers, The Notebook is characterized under the genre description of Romance and Drama. The romance genre pertains to the whirlwind and long lasting love story that is played out between Noah and Allie. The drama comes from the different set of obstacles that the audience

The film, the Notebook brings, forth a great amount of emotion as it gives its audience a bittersweet looks deeply into the lives of an aging married couple. Allie is afflicted with a disease called dementia, which is both progressive and fatal. Though they would have to face distance and other lovers separating them, the two find their way back to each other. The movie opens with the protagonists Noah, played by Ryan Gosling, and Allie, played by Rachel McAdams, where they are in their later years

school, home, and even the grocery store. Interpersonal relationships consist of family, friendship, social, romantic, and online relationships; all of these relationships have one big thing in common: the element of communication. In the movie, The Notebook, the film primarily focuses on the romantic relationship between people named Noah and Allie. Upon meeting Noah, a poor man, and Allie, an upper-class woman, quickly fall in love, however, struggle with maintaining their relationship due to their

The Notebook There is something that ensures uniqueness about everyone: backgrounds, talents, interests, and identities. Deep inside, a defining character which completes and gives meaning to our lives. My father once told me growing up in a large family gave one a sense of living in the real world. To me, it meant learning to make sacrifices for the greater good and being satisfied with what little I was given. To say in the least, I did not feel special and would cry myself to sleep in the self-induced

the article, “On Keeping a Notebook” (1968) explains that keeping a notebook is a great way to keep your thoughts together. Didion supports her explanation by telling about examples of a girl who starts to keep a notebook; she tells why keeping a notebook is important other than just trying to keep our thoughts together. The author’s purpose is to enlighten to begin to keep a notebook. The author writes in a personal tone for anyone that is skeptical about keeping a notebook. Didion uses three rhetorical

Richard Wright’s Indonesian Notebook Analysis American Studies Miscellany Final Paper Indonesian Notebook is an essay written by Richard Wright about Wright’s experience when he visited Indonesia. It was published in August 1955 with other works compiled in Encounter Vol.5, No.2. Richard Wright himself was an African American writer who had written many stories related with racism. He went to Indonesia in purpose to attend Bandung Conference that also can be called Asian-African Conference. This

Jump the Gun is a South African based and shoot in the city of gold, Johannesburg which mainly follows the lives of three diverse characters; Gugu, Clint and Mini. This essay will be focusing on, with support and constant reference to specific scenes from the film Jump the Gun, or rather discussing how the various complex characters develop the narrative and intersect through the film. This essay will also discuss the racial and sexual identities, and how the representation of postapartheid South

So what is a notebook, according to Joan Didion? For the majority of her essay, Didion seems to be beating around the bush about what her point actually is, as to some degree maybe even evading her own topic. She depicts many different entries incorporated in her own notebook, introduces the idea of what a notebook is not, yet never bring closure to this subject, and even goes to the extent of questioning herself about her notebook and answering herself. Nonetheless, Didion answers the main idea

In graphic designs I recently created a spiral bound notebook. This project was created so we could learn how to use photoshop, and learn how to bind a notebook. Our project began with us deciding on a theme for our notebook. We had to have a fluent them throughout the notebook so I decided on baking. I then brought in a picture of a cupcake to photoshop. Then using the magic wand tool, and the eraser tool, I cleaned up the photo. This involved removing the background of the image and smoothing

Joan Didion’s essay “Los Angeles Notebook portrays the Santa Ana winds as being ominus, unseen, and foreboding, by having characters in the story view the winds as an omen of evil inhabitants. She also helps to convey this by changing her sentence length and structure to better suit the atmosphere for the effect the she wants her writings to take on the reader. From the start of her writing, Didion did something to make her story more interesting, that really need to be rooted out. She manipulated