Elsa Puig
Elaine Alonso –Cruz
ENC 1101
7/17/2013
“The Notebook”

Although you might have read or seen this Novel you may not know the different things that were incorporated or withdrawn from within this amazing love story. I will be talking to you about the comparison from the book and the actual movie and how different the story is told.
The book “The Notebook” is about two young kids that fall crazy in love but end up being apart from one another, there is also the movie which has the same concept but was written a bit different. The movie differs slightly from the book in the sense that it has fewer examples showing the different ways they met. For instance in the book Allie met Noah and they spent time together walking around the fair until the carnival was over. In the movie this part was skipped and it jumped to when they went on a ride on the ferries’ wheel and Noah asked Allie out.
In the book she left on good terms, they knew they were not going to see each other anymore, other than in the movie they got in a fight before she left although Allie got separated from Noah when her parents took her back to the city, she liked the house because it was where Noah and her were trying to make love but somehow interrupted by their friend because Allie's parents were looking for her. In this part of the story (book) Noah promised his dream to Allie that he will make that abandoned house theirs when they married and that's the place where they will grow old and raise their children. Noah pursued the dream and rebuilt a new house in that location and made it a really beautiful house.

After the devastating separation, Noah wrote to Allie every day for 365 days, but little did he know she never received his letters, due to her mother hiding them from her! After a while when Allie moved to the city she was a volunteer nurse and Lon asked her out while he was wounded and she told him later when he gets better, but when he did get better he actually came back while she was getting out of school. But in the book Lon and Allie met at a Christmas party, Allie was in love with Lon Hammond, The two eventually become engaged, to the delight of Allie's parents, but Allie sees Noah's face when Lon asks her to marry him.
Another similarity to the movie is When Noah returns home, he discovers his father has sold their home so that Noah can go ahead and buy The Windsor Plantation. While visiting Charleston to file some paper work, Noah witnesses Allie and Lon kissing at a restaurant, causing Noah to go a little crazy, convincing himself that if he fixes up the house, Allie will come back to him. While trying on her wedding dress in the 1940s, Allie is startled to read about Noah completing the house in the style section of a Raleigh newspaper and faints. She visits Noah in Seabrook and he invites her to dinner, during which Allie tells Noah about her engagement. Noah questions whether Allie's future husband is a good man and she reassures Noah that he is. Later in the evening, Noah invites Allie to come back tomorrow, after she does the next day she takes herself back to when they were so in love and realizes that they never grew out of love , this is another similarity.
The next morning, Allie and Noah go rowing on a nearby lake and begin to reminisce about their summer together. As a rain storm starts Noah rows to shore, where Allie demands to know why Noah never wrote to her.