This book is set in the start of the 50’s, a time at which the world was sweeter, when women wore dresses and men wore hats.. A time when something happened to a 17-year old boy that would change his life
forever. Do you
remember your first love? The one with a big L! the one that had swept you off the ground and had you feel like the most lucky person in this world? Well, Landon
Carter will surely never forget his.. A
WALK TO REMEMBER is a heart wrenching account of a young, first love and the choices and steps a person will take to provide another with happiness This simple but unforgettable novel depicts the story of Landon carter’s and Jamie Sullivan’s first love. Landon Carter is a seventeen-year-old high
school senior whose father is a United States congressman. The narrator is Landon himself and more than just narrating about himself and Jamie, he also talks about his family, the special relationship he shared with his mother, how he and his father were perfect strangers to each other and the drawbacks of being a Carter. Landon hangs out with the popular in school while Jamie is always out of the crowd, on her own, with very different interests from the other teens. While most 17-year old girls were interested in boys and clothing, Jamie took care of her widowed father, the town’s Baptist minister, rescued hurt animals and volunteered at the local orphanage. All this set Landon and Jamie in ‘different world’ and no one could have predicted that they would one day fall in love. Fate through them together when Landon was left with no partner for the school dance and had to ask Jamie, the only girl who did not have a partner, to accompany him. Jamie then asked Landon to
play in te school’s Christmas play. Both Landon and Jamie star in this play that Jamie's father has written. The play details the personal story of his life after his wife's death and his search for love and the meaning of life within his daughter. Jamie plays the angel and Landon, the lead male role. With each passing day he spent with Jamie, in rehearsals and occasional talks together on her front porch, Landon starts to like her. As a result, he becomes a better person, helping her do good deeds and accompanying her to the orphanage. The opening night of the play, he is amazed when he first sees her walk on the stage dressed as an angel, with her hair loose and flowing down her back. She glitters onstage and he falls for her true beauty.
With following twists and turns and an untold secret that will change their lives forever, Landon and Jamie fall in love. Pain and sorrow lie ahead but the story lets you believe in the power of love and that dreams do come true. A walk to remember at first looks like a simple teenage novel, easy to overlook and soon to be forgotten. But, on reading it, you are amazed by its contents and how this could have been missed forever. This book have you smiling about the innocence of first love, inspired by the transforming nature of love and crying about the pain of lost… Surely one of those books which remains engraved in your heart forever.
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