Summary Landon experiences some anxiety about the upcoming dance. Although Jamie’s religious code does allow her to dance, Landon fears that Jamie will wear her usual brown sweater and plaid skirt, which may prompt the other kids to tease her. Landon’s friend Eric, who is dating a cheerleader named Margaret […]
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Summary Landon discusses his college options. His father wants him to attend an Ivy League university, but Landon hopes only that his grades are high enough for him to be accepted at the University of North Carolina, where his father attended. Worth Carter devises a scheme to improve Landon’s college […]
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Summary Landon, a senior in high school in 1958, describes Beaufort, North Carolina, as a typical, small, Southern town, in which churches — particularly Baptist churches — play a significant role. The church where Landon and his family attend, Southern Baptist, in collaboration with Beaufort High School, presents a Christmas […]
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Summary A Walk to Remember begins in retrospect: The narrator, Landon Carter, remembers his life 40 years earlier, when he was a young man of 17, living in the same small North Carolina town, which has changed substantially. Standing near a Baptist church, Landon recalls that the events that occurred […]
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Landon Carter The 17-year-old narrator of the story, who comes of age as a result of the events that unfold his senior year of high school; an older Landon, 40 years in the future, also tells part of the story. Jamie Sullivan A young woman who is kind to everyone […]
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Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk to Remember is a successful novel because of its appeal to all readers who have ever experienced what many might refer to as the “turbulent years” of high school. The novel is squarely placed in small-town North Carolina; never once do outside forces threaten to intrude […]
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Fifty-seven-year-old Landon Carter narrates the novel, reflecting on events from 40 years in the past. The novel opens with a Prologue, in which the older Landon, living in the same North Carolina town as he did at the age of 17, stands near the Baptist church that figures prominently in […]
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