As Nicholas Sparks wrote the book "The Best of Me" he wrote in the time period of 1984. Where rock and roll was at its highest peak, and where they had identified the Aids Virus. As the reader reads they will notice he made the setting in an old type of town where children could roam around town and it could be safe, but the drug rate there was high. The book was in the setting of North Carolina in a small town named Oriental. The reader can tell by reading that is type of book is a romance. It tells so much detail between two main characters about their past and how they are in over twenty years.
There are two main characters in this book which are Dawson Cole and Amanda Collier. Amanda is a Southern girl in a small town in Oriento, North Carolina. She came from a family of big fortune, who had high expectations and who were very opinionated. Her family had planned out her future to go to a good college and to marry a man whose life is similar to hers. Amanda was a popular girl in high school, where she was a …show more content…
Dawson was sent to prison, because he had killed him, even though it was not intentional it did not matter. So Dawson went off to prison, and Amanda went to college two totally different things. As time went on Dawson had got out of prison, and then came and stayed with Tuck once again. As for Amanda she got married to her husband who she had met during her sophomore year at Duke, she then had children down the road. Once Dawson was off of probation he left to start a new life, he ended up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he soon found a job working on a ridge. Where Amanda settled down Durham where her husband Frank bought their first home and where he opened up his practice. Dawson never came back to Oriento, not even to visit, but Amanda would come back every so often to visit her parents and