"A Walk To Remember" by Nicholas Sparks is a true love story. The book is very confusing at first. You really don't know how someone can go from hating to falling in love in so little time. Well it wasn't really hating it was disliking that this girl was so nice. People disliked that she 3was so polite to them even when they were mean to her. No one really knew what her reasons were for being so happy all the time and nobody ever really bothered to ask either.
Landon was a "bad" boy. He didn't really care what kind of trouble he got into. He wasn't very close to his father. It even seemed like he didn't like his father. His dad lived in Washington and only came by once in a while to visit Landon and his mother.I don't know why his father decided to make Landon grow up this way. To Landon his father was a little like a stranger. His father had a choice. Maybe if his father was there for him when he was little he wouldn't be such a bad kid, but then again if he wasn't such a bad kid he wouldn't have met Jamie.
Jamie on the other hand was a very smart girl. Her father was a minister. Her mother died giving birth to her. She was as devoted to god as much as her father was. Later in the story you read that there were many reasons why Jamie should be upset and yet she was always happy. She always said that God had a plan for everybody. I'm guessing she knew what her plan was.
When Landon first asked Jamie for help on his lines for the play, she warned him, "...promise that you won't fall in love with me...". He took it as a joke then. Then he thought he could never fall in love with a girl like Jamie. Somehow she knew he would. She used to tell him that she would pray for him. Later you find out that she didn't just wish him well. She prayed for him in different ways.
The part of the book that was really sad for me was the part when she tells Landon that she is sick. At first Landon didn't know what she meant, he was thinking she meant something like a cold. He was wrong. When Jamie told him that she had Leukemia all Landon was thinking was,"...why didn't you tell me...". At first I didn't understand if he was saying that because he thought she was a waste of time or because maybe if she had told him sooner he could have done something to help her. I didn't understand at first why she would hide something like this. That's why she told him not to fall in love with her. Later it was clear that she didn't say anything because she didn't want people treating her different. Maybe if people knew though she would've treated her better. When the People in school found out what Jamie had, they all felt guilty. Jamie didn't know how much time she had left to live. That really scared Landon. He didn't know what to do. I wouldn't know either. Knowing that one of your loved ones is going to die and you can't do anything about it, it's so stressing. You just watch them day after day trying to help them but you see them getting worse. All you can do is let them go happy. You need to help them enjoy that last minutes or hours or days or weeks or months of their lives.
What would you rather do? See them in pain day after day trying to keep them alive of let them die and rid them of all the pain. I have never been in a situation like this and I really hope I don't ever have to be in one. I wouldn't know what to do. I would be devastated. I only remember a few deaths in my family and there was nothing anyone could do to save them. There was no way to help them live longer either. Landon found a way to help Jamie. He was willing to do anything for her. In order to get the help and medication Jamie needed Landon needed to ask his father for help. It was something that Landon wouldn't ever really want to do but he did it for Jamie. She brought them closer. Even when Jamie was in really bad conditions she would find strength to talk to Landon. She would tell him not to worry. She told him that he was an Angel sent from god that brought her happiness. She told him that he changed her life.
When Landon was listening to her all he wanted to do was cry. He always felt like there was something else he could do. As soon as he realized what that thing was, he didn't hesitate at all. He asked her to marry him. She of course said yes. Both Landon's parents and Jamie's father thought Landon was making a mistake. It wasn't that they didn't want him to marry Jamie it was that they felt that he was doing it just because she was going to die. Landon wasn't thinking that way at all. He was thinking that he really loved her and there would not be anyone else for him in the world as good as her. I think he made the right decision. In marriage he would form an infinite bond with Jamie that no one could break. His memories of her would stay strong. The ring on his finger would remind him of her every time he looked at. The ring would remind him of the most beautiful thing that happened to him. It would show him that no one could ever compare to Jamie.
I loved how Nicholas Sparks incorporated the title into the book. The "...walk to remember" was when Jamie was walking down the aisle in church the day her and Landon got married. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves a good love story. This was my first time reading this book but I'm sure it won't be my last.
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