LITERATURE SUMMARY / NOTES - THE NOTEBOOK BY NICHOLAS SPARKS

WINTER FOR TWO (continued)

Summary

Finally, Noah puts the pages of the letters aside and sits at his window watching the sun go down. “Dusk, he realizes, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, he remembers wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart?” He finds it ironic that she chose to read the letter at the exact moment that that question had popped into his head. It is ironic, because now he knows what it’s like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.

Noah and Allie now sit together at the creek - once again they are surrounded by the birds and the geese. She begins to ask him questions about the birds, whether they come there often, and even whether he’s married. When Noah answers yes about his married state, Allie asks what his wife was like. He replies, “She was my dream . . . I think about her all the time . . . There could never have been another.” Hesitantly, Allie asks, “Is she dead?” to which Noah says, “My wife is alive in my heart and she always will be.” Her next question is interesting, “Why are you spending the day with me?” to which he answers, “I’m here, because this is where I’m supposed to be.” All these questions and his soft, non-threatening answers make Allie feel closer to him and unafraid. They sit comfortably in silence then and Noah thinks that “silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is a great paradox.” He tells the reader that he is purposefully vague about answering her questions, because he has seen how a waterfall of information that is her life can be crushing. So he changed how he spent his time with her. As a result, they have more moments where they can sit by the creek and fall in love all over again.

As they walk on through the afternoon, Allie tells Noah that she thinks she has an admirer - him - and that he leaves her surprises. She pulls out a little slip of paper that she had found under her pillow on which is written a poem. He just nods his head in acknowledgement of the love poem he had left her. At the door to the home, she stops him and makes her face him, saying, “I don’t want to forget you or this day and I’m trying to keep your memory alive.” Noah wonders if his routine with her will work this time, but then he knows it won’t. Nonetheless, Allie tells him to just feel the..........

Notes

This final chapter is really open to interpretation. Obviously, it is meant to show the reader Noah’s devotion to Allie and how the promise she made to him comes true. However, the ending – when.......

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