The Notebook

Outline

I. About the author

A. The author of The Notebook is Nicholas Sparks

B. Sparks was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on New Year's Eve.

C. He has been on the New York best seller's list.

II. Characters

A. Noah Calhoun

1. He is not a very wealthy person.

2. He loves to read poetry because of his shudder problem when he was smaller.

B. Allie Nelson

1. She is very wealthy.

2. She loves to paint pictures.

III. Plot Summary

A. In North Carolina, Noah is haunted by images of the girl he loved and lost along time ago.

B. Allie is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart.

The Notebook

Just after Graduation 1932, the opening night of the Neuse River Festival, Noah met his friends Fin and Sarah there. Fin and Sarah were talking to a girl that Noah thought was beautiful, her name was Allie. They hung out at the festival and drank some cherry Cokes until it closed. After that Noah and Allie could not be kept apart. They spent the summer days falling in love and hanging out. Allie's parents didn't like that Allie was spending so much time with Noah because he was not wealthy like them. So Allie and her parents decided for Allie to go to collage in New York, but she would have to leave the boy she fell in love with in North Carolina.

Allie left for New York and got settled into collage. She started to meet new friends and was trying to adjust to her new life without Noah. Allie never received a letter from Noah and that broke her heart because she sill loved him and missed him. After a few years passed she met a young man named Lon and fell in love and got engaged. Her family loved Lon; he was from a very wealthy family and made a lot of money as a lawyer. They were all happy and were busy trying to get things ready for Allie and Lon's wedding.

Noah still in North Carolina wrote Allie every day for a year and never got a response. He decided to go into the Army and then he had to leave for the war. During the war his best friend Fin was killed. After the war he went back home and found that his father sold the house, and gave Noah the money so that he could buy the house of his dreams and fix it up like he promised Allie. His father had gotten very sick and died, but Noah kept going and finished the house. Noah had a few girlfriends but he never forgot about Allie and probably never will.

One day Allie was reading the newspaper and happened to see a picture of Noah in front of the house; he