The Notebook

The Notebook

This story takes place during two different time periods -- the present and the past when the two main characters were young. It starts by the man, Noah, reading Allie the story of their past as lovers. 

In the 1940's, Allie and Noah met as two teenagers while Allie and her family were visiting their summer house in North Carolina. They spent the whole summer together, fell in love, like no other. Since Noah and Allie came from two very different families, Allie's parents were not very fond of Noah. At the end of the summer, the two had to part ways. They promised that they would write to each other everyday and that one day they would find their way back to each other. 

Fourteen years later, when Noah has excepted the fact that Allie is never going to come back and that he only has to live with memories, she returns to the small down in North Carolina. Unexpectedly, she is engaged to another man. This angers Noah and breaks his heart. She has to chose between the obstacle of calling off her wedding only a few weeks away and staying with Noah, or letting go of Noah and marries the man her parents want her to marry. She chooses the obstacle of staying with Noah because once she sees him and talks to him again, all their feelings of their passionate love come back. 

They live together after their many challenges. Although they have nothing in common, they do love each other and love each other until they die old together. 

I saw the movie and read the book, and both were very inspiring and heart felt.