Nicholas Sparks
Name: Nicholas Sparks
Birth Date: December 31, 1965
Place Of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska
Education: University of Notre Dame
Occupation: Author
Love
come and goes unexpectedly in such time in which the person you love will gonna
leave you for some reasons and promise to be with you forever. Long distance
relationship my work but sometimes we can’t deny to that fact that it doesn’t
last. Also, Long distance relationships measure the love that you feel to that
person and choose either to hold on or wait or will give up.
In
the story “Dear John”, Special Forces
Army Sergeant John Tryee is home for a two week-leave from Germany. He
meets Savannah Curtis after he dives
into the ocean to retrieve the purse that had fallen in the pier. John was smitten by Savannah and was fall in love in the first sight. Savannah Curtis is a college student at
the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill and she’s on her spring break
while helping to build a house for habitat for humanity. At the bonfire, John meets Savannah’s friend Tim Wheddon.
He quickly learns how inviting and mature Savannah
and Tim are. At the end of John’s leave, Savannah meet
John in the pier and mentions that
she thinks John’s distant father has Asperser’s. It’s a development disease
which would explain why his dad is distant, has the same and exact schedule
conversation every day and is only interested in his gigantic coin collection.
He quickly gets mad and accidentally hit Tim’s
right in the nose. The two forgive John
of what he did and before he departs, he promised Savannah he’ll marry her when he completes his deployment. As he
came home on leave, they spend a very close night together while at one of the
empty houses for habitat humanity. Savannah
writes to John as what she promised
starting with Dear John and promises
her love for him. John was excited to
come home with Savannah but due to
9/11, he feels the duty to reenlist in the army. For years has passed that
they’ve been away with each other, Savannah
writes to John another letter that
starts with Dear John and ends with
good-bye. He was broken hearted after he reads the last letter that he received
from Savannah.
John’s father
dies after suffering from heart attacks. John
sees Savannah one day and finds out
that she married her best-friend Tim
and has been living with his brother Allan
who suffers from Autism. Tim, while
in his death bed ask John to make Savannah happy and marry her when he
passed away. In his mind, he decides to sells his father’s coin collection in
order to find Tim treatment for his
Melanoma. He decides to do this after realizing how selfless Tim is let Savannah go with him just to make her happy. Tim in his dead bed still cared for her safety and happiness. The
treatment for him works and was released in the hospital. In that point, John never regrets that she loved Savannah. John is watching Savannah,
starring at the full moon proving her unending love for John.
In
the middle chapter of my reading, I stop and face myself in the mirror and
realize something that knocks me into reality. John’s character reminds me of someone who I admired before and
until now I still admired him. Though distance hinder, we find ways to
communicate and wait things to happen in the right time in our lives. And all
we have to do is to trust one another and learn how to be patient to wait
things in the right time. In the end, I learn that in every love story doesn’t
last for a happy ending. Though they are together, they still love each other
as big as the full moon. And I remember
what John says to Savannah that “No matter where you
are in the world, the moon is never bigger than your thumb.”
