
There are no two people in a novel that I have ever wanted more to end up together.

She is the type of person you'd want as a best friend. She takes care of her father, looks out for the welfare of the local orphans, and she irreversibly affects Landon's life. But underneath her strange way of life, Jamie is a very good, compassionate young lady. Her friends had teased her since they were children because of her odd conduct and the bizarre behavior of her Baptist minister father, Hegbert Sullivan.

She is portrayed as a quirky young girl who wears her long hair in a bun and usually always wears the same sweater and plaid skirt almost every day. Jamie is the story's true angel, not just a character in the school play. Landon's character grows and develops throughout the novel, and by the end, he's the perfect gentleman. He credits it all to Jamie, but he also attributes it to the fact that he is essentially a good young man who just needed to find his way. In the end, he becomes more compassionate, more loyal, and more sensitive. He remembered himself at the beginning as a rather pampered privileged young kid who appeared to dissolve his life. Landon narrates his story in flashback, forty years later, as if he lived it only yesterday. Despite this, Sparks' use of the first-person narrative to portray Landon allows the reader to grasp how he truly feels as opposed to how he acts outwardly. I've only read a handful of romantic novels written from the viewpoint of a man, let alone someone like Landon. The fact that it was written from Landon's perspective was appealing to me. Nonetheless, fate has a way of bringing individuals together who are secretly meant for each other. Landon Carter, your normal high school ruffian, is not the kind of boy you'd expect to like her. Jamie Sullivan is a shy girl who usually carries a Bible with her school materials. Rather than the good girl falling in love with the evil lad, it's the other way around.

This book is a twisted take on the classic romantic story. In the late 1950s, Landon Carter was a senior at Beaufort High School in Beaufort, North Carolina, when he first encountered the power of love. A Walk to Remember was the first Nicholas Sparks novel I read, and it was basically flawless. The lovely romance wand of Nicholas Sparks is once again waved over the subject of changing first loves. Many of you have certainly heard of Nicholas Sparks' books, which are tearjerkers designed to make the reader fall in love with the story only to cry at the end.
