A walk To Remember - Summary and Analysis Chapter 1

Glossary


A Christmas Carol a play by Charles Dickens in which a greedy, miserly, unhappy man is visited by three ghosts, who encourage him to change his life.

Fornicator a person who engages in premarital sex.

Blackbeard the pirate a notorious pirate during the late 17th- and early 18th- centuries, who plundered ships in the waterways around the Carolinas.

Communism the system of government in the now-defunct Soviet Union, in which a single party holds all power, and wealth and property are divided equally among the people.

Cold War tensions and hostility between the former Soviet Union and the United States, beginning after World War II, that never erupted into outright war but was often on the brink of it.

Bun hair gathered up at the back or on top of the head.

From Nicholas

How did the idea for A Walk to Remember come to you?

After writing two novels (The Notebook, with characters in their 20s and 80s, and Message in a Bottle, with characters in their 20s and 30s), I thought it was important to write a novel that included neither young adults nor mature adults. Hence, I decided to write a novel about teenagers, and the theme of first love sprang from that.

That said, the novel was inspired in many ways by my sister. I modeled many aspects of Jamie's character on my sister Dana, and portions of the story were drawn from her life as well. Like Jamie, my sister was religious, kind and seemed entirely comfortable in her own skin. Like Jamie, my sister wasn't caught up in traditional high school angst. Like Jamie, all my sister wanted in life was to get married. And like Jamie, my sister got cancer. Like Jamie, she met someone, a man who never believed he could fall in love with a girl like her. And finally, like Landon, even when this man knew my sister was probably going to die from her disease, he ended up asking her to marry him anyway.

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