Analysis The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Book Analysis: “The Longest Ride”
“The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks is a novel that tells two love stories. The first is that of Ira Levinson a 91-year-old widower and his late wife Ruth. Ira’s story starts with him trapped inside a car following his accident, which rolls his car off the edge of a two-lane highway, due to harsh weather conditions. Stuck in the vehicle it starts to snow and he soon finds himself dehydrated and loosing blood. As this occurs Ruth, who had been dead nine years, appears to him. Ira is able to stay awake and alert by Ruth asking him to recall how they met, the precious paintings they collected together, and the dark days of WWII. A few miles away at Wake Forest College a sorority girl, Sophia Danko, meets Luke a cowboy who is nothing like the boys she knows from her sorority parties. Luke and Sophia meet just as she is in the process of recovering from a recent break up with the charming frat boy, Brian. As they fall in love, Sophia finds herself questioning what she has planned for her future in the past, a future that Luke is know in charge of. Nicholas Sparks didn’t tell these two stories just to tell them, he connects them when Luke and Sophia are on their way home from a weekend getaway and they pass the scene of the accident Ira was involved in. Sophia calls 9-1-1, but while waiting for them to get there Ira makes Sophia aware that he has written a letter to his late wife Ruth. Waiting in the ER, Ira asks to see Luke and Sophia, who have the letter still. Ira asks Sophia, who he keeps calling Ruth, to read the letter. That would be the last time they would ever see Ira Levinson he would die a few days later in the hospital from his injuries. Unknown at the time to Luke and Sophia, they had purchased tickets to an art auction that was all the art Ira and Ruth had collected over the span of their marriage. Sophia and Luke purchase the portrait of Ira’s late wife Ruth. A few months after the auction, Luke came into a lot
“The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks is a novel that tells two love stories. The first is that of Ira Levinson a 91-year-old widower and his late wife Ruth. Ira’s story starts with him trapped inside a car following his accident, which rolls his car off the edge of a two-lane highway, due to harsh weather conditions. Stuck in the vehicle it starts to snow and he soon finds himself dehydrated and loosing blood. As this occurs Ruth, who had been dead nine years, appears to him. Ira is able to stay awake and alert by Ruth asking him to recall how they met, the precious paintings they collected together, and the dark days of WWII. A few miles away at Wake Forest College a sorority girl, Sophia Danko, meets Luke a cowboy who is nothing like the boys she knows from her sorority parties. Luke and Sophia meet just as she is in the process of recovering from a recent break up with the charming frat boy, Brian. As they fall in love, Sophia finds herself questioning what she has planned for her future in the past, a future that Luke is know in charge of. Nicholas Sparks didn’t tell these two stories just to tell them, he connects them when Luke and Sophia are on their way home from a weekend getaway and they pass the scene of the accident Ira was involved in. Sophia calls 9-1-1, but while waiting for them to get there Ira makes Sophia aware that he has written a letter to his late wife Ruth. Waiting in the ER, Ira asks to see Luke and Sophia, who have the letter still. Ira asks Sophia, who he keeps calling Ruth, to read the letter. That would be the last time they would ever see Ira Levinson he would die a few days later in the hospital from his injuries. Unknown at the time to Luke and Sophia, they had purchased tickets to an art auction that was all the art Ira and Ruth had collected over the span of their marriage. Sophia and Luke purchase the portrait of Ira’s late wife Ruth. A few months after the auction, Luke came into a lot