Sparks

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…

The evidence is in. To read the book “SPARK” is like completing a research project that will prove to you the benefits of exercise can be transforming and life changing to preserve brain function. Most of us are well aware that exercise promotes strength, flexibility and fitness but few of us have ever really thought of the effects of exercise on our brains. This is a compelling book filled with facts and case histories that speak for themselves on the benefits of exercise to both our brains and…

The Spark Jake is a boy who has succeeded to the top of what others didn’t believe was possible. At a young age, he was diagnosed with autism and even then some teachers shut the door to his future because they believed that he wouldn’t be able to learn how to read or how to talk, but his mother felt otherwise and continued to fight against all odds. Schools and teachers shouldn’t make the families of autistic children feel as if they’re different than the rest of us. In fact, teachers should…

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 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 from…

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…

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 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…

The Spark The conflict that sparked the American Revolution was the Treaty of Paris that was written in 1763 to officially state that Britain had won the French and Indian War. This treaty awarded Great Britain the backcountry and the Ohio River Valley. The Treaty of Paris made the British government feel that they were entitled to the land east of the Mississippi River, not the colonists, once pioneers, who had endured the ninety-one-year war. The point where the fight for independence…

you stay in love with that other person without second guessing your future with them. It is not a love that is there for a month or two and then it disappears randomly but it is a love that is there unconditionally. In the fiction novel by Nicholas Sparks, there are various possibilities of themes, but the most explicit theme of this novel is that true love is forever and it can have a tremendous impact on one’s heart and the feeling towards someone for the rest of their life. So, when the main…