Author's Note: " I wrote this piece as an analysis piece. In it, I am analyzing the conflict and resolution of a creative piece that I have recently wrote and how it is similar to the plot of The Notebook."
Surprisingly enough,
writing a creative piece is actually a very challenging task. One must describe
the setting in vivid detail and explain character personalities and
characteristics with clear and precise language. Also, when writing a creative
story you need to make sure that your dialogue is interesting otherwise it will
bore readers easily. Writing a fictional story also requires your thinking and
problem solving as well, you must figure out how you want the plot to twist and
turn to keep readers excited and attentive. While writing my latest creative
story, "Forever", I had to consider all of this. In my story the
conflict and resolution are very clear and the conflict in my story is very
similar to that of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.
The conflict and
resolution in my story "Forever" are very obvious. Clearly, by
reading my piece you can figure out that the conflict is person-verses-person
because Sarah must battle against herself and her feelings for Alex. Ultimately
she wants to be with Alex but she knows that she must go back with her family
to their home back in Virginia. Yet, throughout the short story she is debating
and fighting herself and her own emotions on whether to stay or depart.
Ultimately she chooses to go back to Virginia with her family, but years later
Sarah and Alex meet again and they fall love and live happily ever after.
Basically, the conflict is that she has to leave Alex and the resolution is
that they meet again and things go back to the way they once were. I chose the
conflict of her leaving in the story because I have a friend that is going to
move soon and I thought that since I could relate to this that it would be
easier to write. Also, I chose the resolution of them meeting again because I
wanted the moral of the story to be to never loose hope. Even though Sarah had
to leave Alex, they never lost hope that they would one day be reunited. In my
story, the conflict and resolution are very apparent and the reasoning behind
both of them and very sentimental to me.
Clearly, the conflict in
the story that I wrote is that the girl must make a decision based on what she
wants which is just one of the many examples of similarities between my piece
and The Notebook. Also, Sarah, similar to Allie in The Notebook,
is a very strong-willed young teenager who loves to have fun and enjoy everything
that life has to offer. Another example of the similarities between both pieces
is that the plots in both of the stories are pretty much identical: the girl
has to make a choice and leaves the boy and then in the end they end up
together and everything works out. In fact, when I was writing “Forever” I
somewhat based the plot off of events that took place in The Notebook.
Not only are the girl characters between the two medias similar, but the male
leads are too: both Alex and Noah are the strong and quiet type, and also both
boys are not afraid to show how they feel. They are both very in-touch with
their emotions. The novel The Notebook written by bestselling author
Nicholas Sparks, and my piece, “Forever”, are extremely alike and share a
similar plot and the character’s characteristics and qualities.
In the short story,
“Forever”, the conflict and resolution are very apparent and also the plot and
characters are a lot like that of The Notebook. What I want people to
take away from “Forever” when reading it and The Notebook is too never
loose hope, because if hope is lost, you have nothing: absolutely nothing. Everything will work out in the end just how
it’s supposed to and everything happens for a reason.