The Notebook

1593 Words4 Pages

I spent a lot of time considering what movie I would watch to write this essay. I listed off the movies that I would like to watch again, and then I decided on The Notebook. I didn’t really think I could write about adolescence or children, so I thought that, maybe, I could write about the elderly. The love story that The Notebook tells is truly amazing. I love watching this movie, although I cry every time I watch it. The Notebook is about an elderly man that tells the story of his life with the one he loves the most, his wife. He is telling the story to his wife, who has Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a degenerative disease that affects a person’s memory. She has no recollection of him or their life together, or even her own children. She wrote the story of their love herself, so that when he read the story to her, she would come back to him. There are three things that I would like to discuss about this movie. First, I would like to discuss their stage of life and the theory that I believe describes their stage of life the best. Second, I would like to discuss Alzheimer’s DIsease and its affect on the main character who has it and her family. Third, I would like to discuss how at the end of the movie, they died together. I know it is a movie, but I do know that it is known that elderly people who have been together for a long time, usually die not to far apart from one another. The first thing I wanted to discuss about the movie was their stage of life and the theory that I think best explains their stage of life. I think they were at their late adulthood/end of life stage. They had to be in their late 60’s to early 70’s. Even though that seems kind of “young” in today’s society, because of their health and the fact that they ... ... middle of paper ... ... the nurses had to give her a shot to calm her down. In the end, she was able to recognize him, and they believed their love was so strong that they could leave that place together, and they did. They died together, holding hands. It is said that some elderly couples die within minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months of each other. I believe it to be a sort of spiritual thing, a connection that can not be broken, even by death. Works Cited Alzheimer’s Association. (2013, December 1). Alzheimer’s Facts and Figures. Retrieved from http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_facts_and_figures.asp Married 6 decades, couple dies minutes apart. (2012, November 30). Retrieved from http://www.nbc-2.com/story/20227617/couple-of-62-years-dies Santrock, J.W. (2013). Essentials of Life-Span Development, 3rd Edition. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill.

Show More
Related

  • Joan Didion On Keeping A Notebook Summary

    536 Words  | 2 Pages

    Joan Didion in her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook”, stresses that keeping a notebook is not like keeping a journal. Didion supports her claim by describing entries that are in her notebook. The author’s purpose is to enlighten the reader as to what a notebook is. The author writes in a nostalgic tone for those who are reading the essay, so that they can relate to her. She uses rhetorical appeals; such as flashback, pathos, and imagery to name a few. By using these devices she helps capture the reader’s attention.

    Read More

  • The Best Bite: The Stories of Army Hempel and Annie Beattie

    2923 Words  | 6 Pages

    The story centers on two women, one terminally ill, the other a visitor to her sick friend. In order to divert attention from the true reason for t...

    Read More

  • Blade Runner

    731 Words  | 2 Pages

    The plot of the movie “Blade Runner” becomes unrevealed till the end of the movie. Many assumptions about the plot and the final of the movie appear in the spectator’s mind, but not one of these assumptions lasts long. Numerous deceptions in the plot grip the interest of the audience and contribute for the continuing interest to the movie eighteen years after its creation. The main character in the movie is Deckard- the Blade Runner. He is called for a special mission after his retirement, to “air up” four replicants who have shown flaws and have killed people. There are many arguments and deceptions in the plot that reveal the possibility Deckard to be a replicant. Roy is the other leading character of the movie. He appears to be the leader of the replicants- the strongest and the smartest. Roy kills his creator Tyrell. The effect of his actions fulfils the expectation of the spectator for a ruthless machine.

    Read More

  • Ethical Dilemma In The Memory Keeper's Daughter By Kim Edwards

    1314 Words  | 3 Pages

    For this paper I read the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, this novel is told in the span of 25 years, it is told by two characters David and Caroline, who have different lives but are connect through one past decision. The story starts in 1964, when a blizzard happens causing the main character, Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. During the delivery the son named Paul is fine but the daughter named Phoebe has something wrong with her. The doctor realizes that the daughter has Down syndrome, he is shocked and age remembers his own childhood when his sister was always sick, her dyeing at an early and how that effected his mother. He didn’t want that to happen to his wife, so David told the nurse to bring Phoebe to an institution, so that his wife wouldn’t suffer. The nurse, Caroline didn’t think this was right, but brings Phoebe to the institution anyways. Once Caroline sees the institution in an awful state she leaves with the baby and

    Read More

  • The Outsiders

    1560 Words  | 4 Pages

    ‘The Outsiders’ is written by S.E. Hinton. It is set in the 1960s in a

    Read More

  • The Outsiders

    1889 Words  | 4 Pages

    This book showed the struggle between rich and poor. The two main groups of the story were the Socs and the greasers. The Socs are in the upper class while the greasers are the poor ones that dislike the Socs because they have more money, better cars, and act like they are better than the greasers. The Outsiders is a good story by S.E. Hinton that shows the struggles of growing up Hinton did a fine job with the character development, the plot, and the theme with a few flaws.

    Read More

  • The Outsiders

    762 Words  | 2 Pages

    In this essay the five Rhetorical concepts will be defined, examples will be used from the movie The Outsiders directed by Francis Ford Cappola. Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Telos is the end of a goal-oriented process, also an ultimate object or aim. Kairos is the opportune time and/or place, the right or appropriate time to say or do the right or appropriate thing.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Psychology In The Notebook

    1302 Words  | 3 Pages

    The film The Notebook offers not only a form of entertainment but also different psychology concepts throughout the film. The Notebook is told from the point of view of an elderly man reading to a woman around his own age. He reads the story of two young lovers that come from differing backgrounds but fall in love. The young girl, Allie, is from a well-off family from the city that is visiting Seabrook Island for the summer. While the young man, Noah, is a poor country boy and that must work to make a living. They quickly fall in love but Allie’s parents disapprove of Noah due to his economic status. Once Allie leaves Seabrook, Noah writes her everyday but her mother hides the letters. The young lovers wait for one

    Read More

  • The Kite Runner

    1421 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Kite Runner focuses on the relationship between two Afghan boys Amir and Hassan. Amir is a Pashtun and Sunni Muslim, while Hassan is a Hazara and a Shi’a. Despite their ethnic and religious differences, Amir and Hassan grow to be friends, although Amir is troubled by Hassan, and his relationship with his companion, one year his junior, is complex. Amir and Hassan seem to have a "best friend" type relationship. The two boys, Hassan and Amir, are main characters in the book titled, The Kite Runner. The two boys have a relationship that is significantly different compared to most. There are many different facets that distinguish the relationship the boys possess. The boys do write their names in a pomegranate tree as the "sultans of Kabul" (Kite Runner 27) but, their friendship is not strong and it is one sided. Hassan has love for Amir. He loves him like a brother. Hassan is exceedingly loyal to Amir. The relationship between the two boys is emotionally wearing and rather gloomy for the most part. The main reason for their complicated relationship is the fact that Amir is Pashtun, and Hassan is Hazara. The Afghan society places Hassan lower than Amir. Hassan is Amir's servant. The placement of Hassan in the Afghan society disenables Amir from becoming Hassan's true friend. Amir sees Hassan as lower than human. Amir ruins the chance for friendship between himself and Hassan because he is jealous of Hassan, he thinks of Hassan as a lower human, and because Amir possesses such extreme guilt for what he has done to Hassan. Amir is an unforgivable person overall.

    Read More

  • Blade Runner

    586 Words  | 2 Pages

    Directors use various techniques to create a compelling and memorable motion picture film for the audience. In 1982`s Blade Runner, Ridley Scott portrays various themes of mortality, memory and identity through various film techniques such as editing, cinematography, and mise-en-scène.

    Read More

  • Saving Private Ryan

    1057 Words  | 3 Pages

    In his review of the film “Saving Private Ryan”, N.Cull claims that the film presents… “a realistic depiction of the lives and deaths of G.I’s in the European theatre in World War II”. Do you agree with his assessment of the film? Argue your case.

    Read More

  • The Shining

    930 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Shining is about a white middle class dysfunctional family that suffers from natural and supernatural stresses in an isolated Rocky mountain hotel. .The father, a former teacher turned writer, is portrayed as a habitual drinker, wife- and child-abuser, with a kind of evil streak The mother is shown as a battered woman. The film suggests that due to the abuse at the hands of his father and the passivity of his mother, the child of this family developed psychological problems. He had imaginary friends and began to see frightening images.

    Read More

  • Relationships in "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses"

    997 Words  | 2 Pages

    “The story employs a dramatic point of view that emphasizes the fragility of human relationships. It shows understanding and agreemen...

    Read More

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

    518 Words  | 2 Pages

    Life is a complete circular map that repeats itself with similarities and differences. It may cause a person to think the same day is reoccurring repetitively. Time has no pity on anyone and waits on none. Gabriel Garcia Marquez intertwine realistic and magic throughout One Hundred Years of Solitude to express how life can go through changes throughout the years, but has little or no progress. One Hundred Years of Solitude reflects the insanity and insomnia stage of solitude of Garcia Marquez life as a child and writer. Garcia Marquez written characters has different functions to maintain magic realism the flow of the text. The character Ursula represents Garcia Marquez wife that has to maintain sanity and bills in the household until he is able write a bestseller book. In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character analysis reveals Ursula Iguaran as a person that maintained structure, is courageous, and domineering.

    Read More

  • The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

    333 Words  | 1 Pages

    The beginning of this book puzzles the reader. It doesn't clearly state the setting and plot in the first chapter; it almost leaves the mood open to how the reader interprets it. In the romance story The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks, the plot then shifts from a nursing home to a small town -- New Bern, North Carolina. It baffles the reader so much that it urges one to read on. The romance of Noah and Allie in this book is so deep and complex that it will bring a tear to the eye of any reader.

    Read More

More about The Notebook

Open Document