Book Review: A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember

By Nicholas Sparks

This book is about a 17-year-old boy from Beaufort, North Carolina. The story takes place in 1958. His name is Landon Carter. He was a popular kid in school; he had cool friends and his parents were wealthy. He went to a Baptist church every Sunday with his family even though the Priest didn’t really like his family that well. When Landon was a kid he would always make fun of or teases the Baptist Minister; Hegbert Sullivan. That year Landon started school he signed up for an Acting Class. He didn’t really know what he was getting in to when he signed up; he thought it was just going to be an easy A. The teacher signed Landon up for the annual Christmas Play hosted by Hegbert. He wrote the script and every year they had a play. The whole town would go to watch. Hegbert’s daughter-Jamie Sullivan- was old enough to be in it this year so it was special to Hegbert. Landon fell deeply in love Jamie. He cared about her so much no matter what people said about them. Jamie brought out the best in him. He wouldn’t do anything to hurt Jamie, but Jamie was an outcast. No one liked her. She carried a bible around every where she went every day, and she wore a plaid skirt with a brown cardigan with her hair pulled in a bun every single day. All of Landon’s friends and the whole school made fun of Landon for dating Jamie. Jamie gets very sick, but Landon’s heart is not broken.

The passage in the book is during play when Landon says Jamie.

For the first time since I’d known her, her hair honey-colored hair wasn’t pulled into a tight bun. Instead it was hanging loosely, longer than I imagined, reaching below her shoulder blades. There was a trace of glitter in her hair, and it caught the stage lights, sparkling like a crystal halo. Sat against her flowing white dress tailored exactly for her, it was absolutely amazing to behold. She didn’t look like the girl I’d grown up with or the girl I’d come recently to know. She wore a touch of makeup, too-not a lot, just enough to bring out the softness of her features. She was smiling slightly, as if she were holding a secret close to her heart, just like the part called for her to do.

She looked exactly like an angel.

I liked this book because it was so cute the two of them, but it was also really sad in the end. I would recommend this because Nicholas Sparks did a really good job writing it and he put a lot of detail in it so it’s easy to picture.