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A Walk to Remember. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to ...
Chapter 1 evokes all the classic images of a small, Southern town in the 1950s. People wave to each other; the natural beauty surrounding the town is enjoyed and appreciated; and churches dominate town life.
Jamie's slow, painful walk down the aisle is, indeed, "a walk to remember." In the last chapter of the novel, 57-year-old Landon reflects on the 40 years that have passed since his wedding to Jamie. He still loves her and has not removed his wedding ring in all those years.
A Walk to Remember is set in North Carolina. It begins with the narrator, fifty-seven-year old Landon Carter, announcing that he is going to look back on a life-changing event that happened to him when he was seventeen years old. Analysis Sparks here uses the literary technique known as the frame.
Chapter 1. The narrative begins with Landon describing Beaufort as a typical, small, southern town in which churches, especially the Baptist ones, play a significant role. The inhabitants were friendly and kind, deeply involved with whatever happened in the town.
Analysis. Chapter 2 gives readers a closer look at Landon's relationship with his father. Worth Carter grew up in Beaufort and attended the University of North Carolina (UNC), but Worth wants more for his son, beginning with an Ivy League education.
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