essays on dear john by nicholas sparks

While I’ve earned a reputation as an author who specializes in tragic endings, I want to go on record as saying that my favorite novels to write are those with bittersweet endings.  I love to craft a novel – like The Notebook – in which the characters long to be together but can’t, for fate has conspired to keep them apart.  The problem, however, is that such novels are exceedingly difficult to conceive, let alone write.Why, after all, if two people love each other, can’t they be together? A hundred years ago, stories like these were much easier to craft.  Class, race, feuds and religion were “fair game,” but in the 21st century – and especially in the United States – these issues simply don’t ring as true.  Yes, prejudice still exists and in small pockets of society, such issues might still predominate, but as a general rule, prejudice is frowned upon, and I strive to write novels that feel universal to the majority of people.  And besides, in novels where “love is supposed to conquer all,” most readers want to believe that almost any obstacle can be overcomeWhat then should serve as the obstacle in the relationship?  What causes the bittersweet ending?  Why can’t the two people be together?The most obvious – and relevant – reason that two people who love each other can’t be together is that one or both is already married, and they are loathe to divorce their spouse for family reasons.  This was the “obstacle” that kept the lovers apart in both The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans.Yet, I have a problem with that obstacle as well.  While I know it’s real and that it happens, adultery is nothing I want to glamorize.  I’ll be perfectly honest when I say that I find nothing romantic in it.  Nor does my wife.  And, obviously, it’s an obstacle that now lacks in originality, since it’s been overdone in both books.
'Dear John' is an ecstatic journey of a soldier, John Tyree and has been written in three consecutive parts. The story revolves around John's life when he was a carefree lad, and lived life according to his own rules, and then when he has to live in the complete contrasting conditions once he joins the army. The female protagonist of the story is Savannah, who is a chirpy social bee. John and Savannah meet in very natural circumstances, at the beach, from where their lives take new turns. They develop a young, fervent love for each other in their hearts, but are shattered when John has to join the army back after his leave. However, Savannah and John share a bond so strong that nothing can set them apart. This novel is such a treat to the readers also because of the special bond that his portrayed, the bond John shares with his father, who happens to have a kind of Autism, and even then has successfully managed to raise John. This novel reaches it's peak when our protagonists' relationship is not just as charming. Nicholas Sparks does not fail to bring out the special connection between the father and a son, and at the same time highlighting the true meaning of love, and the kind of choices one makes for his special one, no matter how hard they can prove to be. The author also uses letters exchanged between Savannah and John as a medium to render the sound and natural love they seem to have for each other. Just as the Daily Mail has said in praise, it will have you weeping for the joy and tragedy of it all!.
The book Dear John by Nicholas Sparks is a very popular book about love and faith that has been turned into a best-selling movie, so if you want to do a book report on this piece of work you have lots of options available to you other than just reading the book. If you find, though, that you would like to read the book to do the report, you may need some help in getting the book review written. After you have read the book, try doing the following things to make your review go much faster. Watch the movie after you've read the book. Watching the movie after you have read the book will help you gain a better understanding about the book. Sometimes a director can better express the work than you can comprehend in the book, and certain themes or details may be made clearer for you. Read other reviews of the book. After you have both read the book and watched the movie, hop online and look at the reviews from both professional writers and ordinary people that have read the book. See what they liked about it and what they didn't, and take notes of anything you see that may make a good report. The negative things people say about a book can generally lead to good topics because you can either discuss why the author did something a certain way, or you can also talk bout why you wanted it to be different. Research themes from the book. Many authors do interviews about their books, and Sparks is one of them. Look up what he has to say about the book and the themes that people notice in the book. After you have established the themes, pick one or two that you enjoy and look those up online for ways to better present them to your audience. Review the book yourself. Now that you have background, themes, and public reaction you need to review the book yourself and can use the information you found as a way to introduce your review or support your thoughts and ideas. Always stick.
Almost everybody likes to watch movies and we have seen a lot of them either in cinemas or on television. Some of them are better than others. Sometimes people have different opinions whether a particular movie is good or not. There are millions of movies that have caught my attention. To choose between “The Lucky One” and “Dear John” were very hard and both written by the same author, Nicholas Sparks, an amazing author written many books with many of them made into movies. However, “Dear John” is by far one of the best captivating and the most amazing movie I have ever watched and it’s a great movie that shows and even sends a message to the audience that even love between two people if it is so strong can survive even the tests of time and the distance between themselves. This movie is by the far one of Nicholas Sparks’ his most well-known and most heartbreaking lovestory which is “Dear John.” It was released in the year 2010 in the theaters. Dear John is about a boy, John that lived in North Carolina and after dropping from high school, John enlistes in the army only to return home for 2 week-leave off. So, at the center of this movie is a Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree, a bad-boy turned good which has returned home on a two-week leave from Germany. He was born in 1977 and grew up with his father in Wilmington. He had an unusual relationship with his father as they never really got along with each other except for the fact when his father talked about his coins. His father lived life by a strict routine and never remarried after his wife left him, leaving an isolated life and sometimes mostly alone and to care for himself with no one to help him around or to even talk to him about things. Both John and his father never really found anything to talk about when John grew out of coins and so lived in the same house but different lives. The relationship.
Nicholas Sparks stated that he has no contemporaries. No one else does what he does. He writes unpredictable love stories, not trashy run-of-the-mill romance novels like Shakespeare. In a recent interview with USA Today, Nicholas Sparks criticized Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, and romance novelists in general for essentially writing the same story over and over: (Romances) are all essentially the same story: You've got a woman, she's down on her luck, she meets the handsome stranger who falls desperately in love with her, but he's got these quirks, she must change him, and they have their conflicts, and then they end up happily ever after. But he claims that he is not a romance novelist. He is a fiction writer who writes love stories. You read a romance because you know what to expect. You read a love story because you don't know what to expect. Really Nicholas Sparks? Really? A Walk to Remember Landon, a rebellious high school student, meets Jamie, the booksmart daughter of a pastor. At first, they have a rocky friendship because they are from different worlds. Jamie offers to help Landon learn lines for a school play if he promises to not fall in love with her. They grow close, but Jamie repeatedly rejects him. Jamie's father does not approve of the relationship. Then tragedy strikes. Jamie tells Landon that she has Leukemia and is dying and therefore they cannot be together. Landon is forced to reconcile with his estranged father, a doctor who sets up treatment for Jamie. Despite the tragedy, Jamie and Landon continue to grow deeper in love. They get married and a few months later, Jamie dies. The Notebook Noah, a local country boy, falls in love with young heiress, Allie. Since.they are from different worlds, she.repeatedly rejects him. Allie's parents.do not approve of the relationship, which eventually causes them to reluctantly break up. Allie.
Lasse Hallstrom's Dear John tells the heartbreaking story of two lovely young people who fail to find happiness together because they're trapped in an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Their romance leads to bittersweet loss that's so softened by the sweet characters that it feels like triumph. If a Sparks story ended in happiness, the characters might be disappointed. They seem to have their noble, resigned dialogue already written. Hemingway wrote one line that could substitute for the third act of every Sparks story: Isn't it pretty to think so? Channing Tatum stars as John Tyree, a handsome Army Special Forces specialist home on two weeks' leave at the South Carolina shore. Amanda Seyfried plays Savannah, an ethereal beauty whose purse falls off a pier. John dives in and retrieves it, and we guess it could have been worse. He could have gotten her kitten down from a tree. In the few precious days they share, they fall deeply into PG-13 love. John was raised by his father (Richard Jenkins), a quiet man who wears white gloves while admiring his coin collection, and cooks chicken every Saturday and lasagna every Sunday. Savannah meets him and casually observes to John that he is autistic -- a mild case, she gently suggests. John is angered by this observation. Did he never, by the age of 22, observe that his father was strangely mannered? Did no one else? What was his (now absent) mother's thinking? Did the movie mention any employment history for Mr. Tyree? I could have missed it. In a Sparks story, as we know from The Notebook, problems like autism and Alzheimer's are never seen in their tragic stages, but always allow the good souls of their victims to visibly glow. Diseases don't destroy and kill, but exist primarily to inspire admirable conduct by nexts of kin. John and Savannah get over his unhappiness, and he pledges that he'll be back at the end of 12.