True Love Never Dies Alone

The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, is a touching story about the never ending obsession of true love. The story begins describing a summer love. A small town teenage boy, Noah Calhoun falls in love at first sight with an upper class girl, Allie Nelson (Hamilton-in film). Torn apart at the end of the summer, they both go their separate ways; Noah enrolls himself into the army, to fight in World War II, while Allie volunteers as a nurse helping the victims of World War II. Allie ends up becoming engaged with a lawyer, Lon Hammond who is a part of a wealthy southern family and also the perfect husband in her parent's eyes. Several years pass before Noah and Allie are reunited. Their passion is rekindled and Allie is left to decide between her parent’s choice, Lon and her first love, Noah. This story has a shocking impact on an elderly man who reads this everlasting love story everyday to a woman he fell in love with nearly 45 years ago. “If I read to her, she’ll come back to me.” he consistently tells the doctors; who believe there is no hope for his wife (suffering from Alzheimer's disease) to remember him. The novel and the film are different in many ways. The characters, the plot and the dialog are all modified slightly in the film to attract the viewer’s attention. The director of the film, Nick Cassavettes chose to modify the characters in several ways. He changed their roles, and he took out the characters which he did not think were necessary to pursue the movie. For example in the novel there is a hound dog named Clementine (Clem). Noah and Clem build a sense of companionship throughout the story, whereas in the film Noah reads poetry, plays guitar, works around the house, or takes his loneliness out on the creek in order to keep himself occupied (there is no Clem in the film). In the movie Cassavettes tailored Allie’s appearance faintly. Allie in the novel is said to have blonde hair whereas in the movie it appears a reddish-orange color. Near the end of