Nicholas Sparks
Name: Nicholas Sparks
Birth Date: December 31, 1965
Place Of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska
Education: University of Notre Dame
Occupation: Author
“Remembering the person who you love
most, who gives direction into your life and changed you like no other.” As God
gives the life that we have today, the illness and problems that he gave to
challenge our faith in him and as we found love and meet the unexpected person
that will change our lives without even knowing. In this world, all of us have
a corresponding task in which we may not know what it is. It’s a matter of
acceptance, to love heartily, appreciate little things and live life as what
God gives.
The story of “A walk to Remember” of Nicholas
Sparks touched my heart and realizes things in my life. The story begins whit a
prank boy named Landon Carter, his popular
but a rebellious student and his parents were separated. Because of being a
rebellious student his punishment is mandatory participation in various
after-school activities like tutoring disadvantaged children and performing in
the drama club’s spring musical in which the writer of The Christmas Angel was Jaime’s
father. At these point, he is forced to interact with quite, bookish Jaime Sullivan who he known for many
years but to whom he rarely spoken. Landon
had a hard time in memorizing and practicing his lines, he asks Jaime for help. She agrees to help him
if he promises not to fall in love with her. He laughs off Jaime’s strange remark believing her to be the last person with
whom he would ever fall in love. Although, Landon
has the access to the prettiest and most popular girls in town between shy
demeanor and old-fashioned clothes, then he categorized that Jaime doesn’t exactly fall into that
category. The two of them practice their lines together at Jaime’s house after school. They both form a tentative friendship
until Landon learns that she had a
wish list of all the things she hopes to do in her life. Jaime approached Landon
at his locker room one time and asks if they are still for practice that
afternoon. He smirks at Jaime in
front of his friends and say “in your dreams” and they laugh as Jaime’s face fills with betrayal and
embarrassment. At that afternoon, Landon
arrives at her house and hoping that Jaime
will still help him. But, she refuses to open the door and when she eventually
does, she said sarcastically that they can be “secret friends” and slams the
door in his face when he agrees. Then Landon
eventually learns the script by himself.
During the play, Landon and the crowd were all astound by
Jaime’s beauty and voice. He kisses
her during the play which was not in the script and Landon tries to be close with Jaime
but she rejected. Until his
friends had a mean joke to her and punch out Dean and Belinda and takes her home. The two pursue a relationship
in which Jaime’s wish list impossibly
came true with Landon. She finally
tells Landon that she has a terminal
leukemia and has stopped responding her treatments. He was upset at first but
then on she tells her reason why she was moving in her life and using the time
she had left. But then on, Landon happened
to fall in love with her. Break down and says to Landon “I do not need a reason to be angry with God” and flee. Jaime’s cancer gets worse and collapse
in her father’s arms. She was rushed to the hospital and he never leaves her
side until her father has to pry him away. Landon
continues to fulfill Jaime’s wish
list and learn about the nature of love and got married. They were married in
the same chapel where Jaime’s diseased mother was married. She died after
and Landon becomes a better person
through Jaime’s memory in which he
achieve the goals that he set to do like she did. He was sorry for he could not
grant her wish to witness “a miracle” before she died. And Jaime’s father says “She did. It was you”.
At this point of life, people blame
God of what kind of life that they have in their lives. Some got angry because of uncertain things
like losing someone you love, having a chronic disease, worst kind of living,
being poor and so on. As what our pastor says in one of her lectures that don’t
blame God of where we are right now, for we are the one who makes our life in
the earth and the only thing the God can do is to guide us through his words
which will help to become who we are.
And the only thing that God want from us is to have faith, love, and trust and
hold on to him. We may not feel God’s
presence but in many reasons God sent somebody to help us and change our lives
like what Jaime changed Landon in the story “A walk to Remember”.
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