Nicholas Sparks

Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the IDEA world youth forum. I am Juliet Kaiser from M2 and it is with my great pleasure to be presenting here today addressing prevailing readings and perspectives of cultural and social issues. However, I will specifically be addressing the significant issue of overly romanticised love and how it has been represented in literary and contemporary texts. I strongly believe, texts overly romanticise love and subsequently lead audiences to have…

Love is a sacrifice within itself. In the Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, Noah is a man from a small town who was given nothing and had to work for everything he wanted. Noah falls in love with a women named Allie who is from a very wealthy family and is often handed anything she could think of. The love is strong but not strong enough to break the bond of Allie and her parents. Allie’s parents try to split up Noah and Allie and they succeed. When Allie’s family moves, Noah and Allie lose all…

In Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, one of the main characters, Dell, changed over the course of the book due to meeting Willow. Before Dell met Willow, he was unempathetic and had no regard for staying healthy. Before Dell worked at Willow’s middle school, he never stayed at a job for very long. One of these jobs included working at an assisted living center. He only worked there for three months. Sloane stated, “The elderly didn’t like him. He lacked true compassion and he had…

A 1996 novel, The Notebook written by Nicholas Sparks, the center of attention is on the romance, as it opens over half a century, between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson, two young Southerners who meet for the first time as teenagers. The lovers overcome many complications, including Allie’s criticism family of them being together. At the time of its release, the novel received diverse critical reviews but was extremely popular with readers and later in 2004 made into a movie, starring Rachel…

The People of Sparks The main character in the book “The People of Sparks” written by Jeanne DuPrau, is a 13 year old girl named Lina.This curious girl tries to save her city from certain disaster by finding a way to live in the new world,”aboveground”.The only problem is ,half of her beloved city wants to fight and conquer a city that someone else is already living in!She is determined to find her city a place to live without having to fight and kill for it.She will have to use her…

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs is a memoir of Augusten’s childhood and adolescent life where he experiences the frenzy of his parent’s deteriorating marital relationship and his livelihood under his mother’s psychologist’s household. The book begins with the introduction of young Augusten, a seven year old boy who enjoys dressing up in his mother’s clothes and polishing jewelry. His childhood resembles that of an average boy. His father, a mathematics professor, would take him out…

God has a Plan Nicholas Sparks has written incredible books throughout his life. One of my favorites by him is Safe Haven. I liked this because Katie never gave up, it's more in depth than the movie, and the book had a terrific ending, so I didn't want to put the book down. Because Erin has been treated like a piece cardboard, she decided that she couldn't handle the abuse anymore from her husband. Erin had everything planned for escaping, but she made sure no one would discover where she ran…

The Bridge to Terabithia written by Katherine Patterson, won the Newbery Medal in 1987. This story was about a friendship between a boy named Jess and a girl named Leslie. In this story, they had an imaginary world they called Terabithia, and they were the queen and king.Their friendship was good, strong, and could not be broken. But one day, something tragic happens. Leslie dies and Jess has to use all his strength to recover from the tragic incident. This book deserved the Newbery award…

for the forthcoming blessing. In Nicholas Sparks’ love story, Message In a Bottle, two people are shown how the strangest occurrences can bring you together. My main characters are both going through a heartbreak, and then they unexpectedly meet each other. It comes to the realization that life has more to offer than what the characters perceived. By moving past the hardships it is learned that life is uneasy, but that to love each other is. A central theme in Sparks’ novel is that moving on…

Call me a book nerd or a geek, but this assignment actually made me think quite a bit. I have read quite a few books, but one that I constantly remember making an impact on me when I read it, and even after I put it down, is “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks. You’re probably thinking that this author just fills his books with sappy, unrealistic love stories and tragedies, and in all honesty I believed that too in the beginning. However, within the first chapter, I noticed a story that represented…