The Best Of Me By Nicholas Sparks

Media Paper For my media paper I decided to watch "The Best of Me".The Best of Me is a romantic drama film by Nicholas Sparks focused on two people named Dawson & Amanda who are madly in love. Although Dawson 's life makes things difficult he manages to work on an oil rig off the Louisiana cost. Amanda is a small town well known woman and also happens to be Dawson 's highschool sweetheart. However Dawson is single and Amanda is married to another man and the two no longer communicate. But after loosing a close family friend Dawson has to return home and comes to find that Tuck the friend who died had arranged for the two to join eachother in reminsing through his items.Although this is a difficult thing to do the two manage to rekindle the …show more content…
I learned that you can 't always protect the people you love no matter how hard you try there is always someone who can hurt you and them, they usually try to find a way. However, you can succeed if you stay focused, anger and violence isn 't the answer to solve a situation. In this movie Dawson had tried to be the tough guy and took a gun to his father 's house threatening to kill him out of anger, after his father tossing the gun out of his hand and wrestling Dawson, Dawson 's friend ends up getting shot. This happened because while the two were fighting on the ground when Dawson fired it, it missed his fathers head and went straight into his friends head. Things didnt turn out so well for Dawson he lost Amanda and his friend. Although Dawson ended up dying he donated his heart to Amanda 's son who was in need of one and it shows that miracles do happen. This story taught me to live every day and to tell the truth especially to the person you love because anything can happen and we just never know when. "The Best of Me" shows where communication was lacked and how the apperance of a person can affect how someones communication skills are