Wednesday, 16 March 2022

The Notebook

 Characters:

1. Noah Calhoun
 
= Noah Calhoun is the main protagonist of the 2004 film, The Notebook.
= He's the boyfriend and later husband of 17-year-old Allie    Hamilton. At a summer carnival in 1940,     Noah saw Allie.   He fell in love with the wholesome young woman and wanted to go on a date with     her.
= Characteristic: Romantic, Faithful, and Optimistic.

Reference: Noah Calhoun | Nicholas Sparks Wikihttps://nicholassparks.fandom.com wiki Noah_Calhoun
analysis of character's personality and relationship in thehttp://eprints.unram.ac.id



2. Allie Hamilton

=The main protagonist of the movie, The Notebook, was
the daughter of Anne Hamilton and an unknown father who was seen in the movie. She's also the love interest of    Lon (in the past and ex-fiance) and the girlfriend and later wife of Noah Calhoun.
= She is a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. She is kind and loyal, and she is beautiful.

Reference: Allie Hamilton | Love Interest Wikihttps://loveinterest.fandom.com wiki Allie_Hamilton
analysis of character's personality and relationship in thehttp://eprints.unram.ac.id



3. Lon Hammond  

= Essentially a good and decent man, Lon is handsome,
   smart, funny, sophisticated, and charming. He came from
   an old southern rich family and was fabulously wealthy.
= He
s an intelligent and hardworking lawyer who comes
   from a wealthy, powerful family who made their money
   in the cotton industry long ago.

Reference: Lon Hammond, Jr. Character Analysis in The Notebookhttps://www.litcharts.com the-notebook
analysis of character's personality and relationship in thehttp://eprints.unram.ac.id




4. Anne Hamilton

= She was a redeemed villainess from the 2004 film,
  "The Notebook."
= She was the mother of Allison "Allie" Hamilton, one of
   the film's main protagonists.
= She is the antagonist. She is Allie's mother. She is
   Irritable, liar, and idealistic.
= kind of that personality belonging to Anne is an Unhealthy
   personality. She does not think that Noah is good enough
   for her daughter.

 Reference: User blog:CEDJunior/Anne Hamilton (The Notebook)https://villainous-beauties.fandom.com wiki
analysis of character's personality and relationship in thehttp://eprints.unram.ac.id

 

Setting

The novel is primarily set in the real city of New Bern, North Carolina, but when the filmmakers came to South Carolina for location scouting they decided to do more than film here. They changed the movie's main setting to the fictional place of Seabrook, South Carolina.

reference: Movies Filmed in South Carolina – The Notebook - SCIWAYhttps://www.sciway.net › movies › sc-movie-notebook



Plot

In 1940s South Carolina, mill worker Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and rich girl Allie (Rachel McAdams) are desperately in love. But her parents don't approve. When Noah goes off to serve in World War II, it seems to mark the end of their love affair. In the interim, Allie becomes involved with another man (James Marsden). But when Noah returns to their small town years later, on the cusp of Allie's marriage, it soon becomes clear that their romance is anything but over.


Conflict

The focus of this paper is the interpersonal conflict with Noah, Allie, and her mother, Anne Hamilton. After Allie's father catches her and Noah making out in the truck, he tells Allie that he wants to have the chance to meet her friend, so he politely asks Allie to invite Noah over Sunday for dinner.


Reference: courses.lumenlearning.com


Point of view

The point of view is the first person in the first and last chapters when Noah narrates his experiences with Allie at Creekside Extended Care home. In the middle chapters, it is in the third person as Noah reads the story aloud to Allie.

Reference: http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/notebook_sparks/Notebook_Study_Guide_Sparks16.htm


THEMES - THEME ANALYSIS

The first and most important theme is: Love conquers all. Although this idea is sometimes overworked, in this particular work, it is the most prevalent theme of all. No matter how many setbacks Allie and Noah faced, their love always brought them together again. First, they must face the pressures of their parents and their social position. Her mother hid his letters to her and even pressured her to give up painting, a talent that Noah had encouraged. Second, they face a separation of fourteen years in which Noah is shaped by his father, WWII, and his desire to escape his loss of her. Third, they face her engagement to Lon Hamilton who comes from an influential and important family. Its only when Allie reads Noahs last letter to her written twelve years before that she knows where her heart lies. Even though they marry and raise a family in the wonderful plantation home, their lives are not without tragedy when their four-year-old son dies. Finally, Allies' diagnosis of Alzheimers disease is the final setback. However, not even it can separate the two of them as Allies promise that she will return to him comes true.

 

The second theme is: Follow your heart. Allie had spent fourteen years in fear of hurting her family and friends if she deviated from the standard way of living for her social class. It was only when she realized that she and Noah were meant to be together that she made the right decision and followed her heart. Noah was convinced that they were soul mates who had lived many lives looking for each other, sometimes finding each other and sometimes not. In this version of fate, Allie would always make a mistake if she failed to recognize Noah as the one she was meant to be with for eternity.


A final theme tells us that you cannot live your life in fear of hurting others. Allie nearly learned this hard way when she almost gave in to her fear of hurting her family and friends by
choosing Noah. Her parents had done everything they could to keep her within her social class
and eventually to see her married to an influential and powerful man. For most of her life, Allie
gave in to this pressure. Coincidentally, it took a newspaper article about Noahs house to make her remember a wonderful summer with him and how much she might still love him. However, she almost gives in to family pressure even after a wonderful few days with Noah. Only with the reading of Noahs final letter to her written twelve years before was she able to see that it was her life to live. and no one should be able to force her in a direction she didn't want to go.


Dialogue



Dialect or Colloquial language


American English


Tone and Voice

Spark's tone is sentimental and nostalgic.


Style

Romace - Drama


Mood

The mood is at times troubling and even quite sad, because of the disease that is claiming Allie's mind. However, there is a sense of victory, in spite of the inevitability of Allie's future, because in the end, love wins, no matter how hard life tries to make it not so.

 







   

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