Character Analysis Of A Walk To Remember

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I want to talk about Landon Cater being a dynamic character and the foreshadowing in the movie called “A Walk to Remember” because Landon Carter, the narrator, began to think about his life changing experiences that helped him and ones surrounding become better people. The movie starts off with Landon reminiscing about when him and his friends were underage drinking and severely injured another student during a prank. The prank was to jump off this high story building into a lake. However, the student Landon and his friends pressured into doing this was severely hurt and was also lead actor in the school play. The consequence of that event lead to Landon having to take the injured student position in the school drama play and that’s where he met Jamie. A dynamic character …show more content…

Jamie is a Reverend’s daughter who stays to herself and loves acting. Whenever there was a good or bad event in Jamie’s life she would always refer is to “Gods plan”. Jamie has faith no matter what and as Landon look back at these specific details he notices how distant he was to his own religious beliefs. Landon does not have interest in religion, he simply think he attends church because he is supposed to. Landon was a teenager of a single parent home, his father married another woman which caused hatred towards his father. QUOTE Simply because of the hard ache within his own home, he personally he did not care. Yet in one scene of “A Walk to Remember” Landon says” that one must have faith, although he does not really know what he is talking about, and he knows that he does not, and he soon steers the conversation away from God and toward romance.” He stated this scripture because Jamie mention that sometimes the Lord plans are not always understood. As Landon looks back at his high school life, he thinks about not only his personal crisis but the one with Jamie and her battling cancer and

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