Theme Of Psychology In The Notebook

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Psychology in The Notebook 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 …show more content…

Noah reads their love story to Allie everyday in hopes that she will remember him and everything they have experienced together. Throughout most of the day as he reads to her, she does not recall that the story is about herself and Noah. She also does not remember who her children and grandchildren are when they come to visit. At the end of the film Allie becomes lucid for a few moments and realizes that the story Noah is reading is their own and they begin to dance together. After a few short moments Allie relapses into Alzheimer’s and has no idea who Noah is and why he is there with …show more content…

Proximity studies show that people are more likely to be friends or even fall in love with people who live near you, work at the same place as you, and basically live a similar life to your own (Myers, 2011, p.678). Psychologist J. T. Jones in 2004 found that, “People are even somewhat more likely to marry someone whose familiar-sounding first or last name resembles their own” (Myers Psychology for AP). Noah and Allie’s relationship should not have worked out due to their differing backgrounds. Since Allie came from a wealthy, high-class afamily that could afford anything they ever wanted and Noah came from a poor, single father family where he had to work everyday in order to make the necessities, Allie and Noah’s relationship defies the concept of

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