The description of triangle love in nicholas sparks’ novel “the notebook”

APPENDICES

1. The Biography of Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is an American screenwriter and novelist, born on 31st December 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska. The second son of Patrick Michael (1942-1996) and Jill Emma Marie Sparks (1942-1989). His siblings are Michael Earl Sparks, and Danielle Sparks. Nicholas spent the early part of his childhood moving around with his family as his father finished up his graduate work. They lived in Minnesota, then Los Angeles, later Grand Island, Nebraska, and finally Fair Oaks, California, where the Sparks clan found a permanent home.

Nicholas went on to graduate from high school there in 1984, graduating valedictorian of his class and earning notice as a middle-distance runner. He accepted a full athletic scholarship to the University of Notre Dame and set a school record as part of a relay team, but he found himself hampered by an Achilles tendon injury the summer after his freshman year. With time on his hands and little to do but recover, Nicholas wrote his first novel, The Passing, which was never published. According to Nicholas, it will never be, but the experience began to hone his writing skills. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1988.

Nicholas Sparks and his wife Catherine, who met on spring break in 1988, were married on July 22, 1989. Sparks lives in New Bern, North Carolina with his family. They have five children — sons Miles, Ryan, Landon, and twin daughters Lexie and Savannah. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. Along with his wife, he founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school.

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 97 million copies sold

worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 65 million copies in the United States.

Sparks wrote his first novel in 1985 which never got published and another one in 1989, also not published. Sparks experimented with various careers trying to fit in but didn’t succeed. After trying his luck in publishing, law school, real estate and even waiting tables, he finally co wrote a novel named ‘A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-Understanding’ with Billy Mills Wokini. It sold about fifty thousand copies in the first year of being published. In 1992 he tried a business in pharmaceuticals and the next year moved to Greenville, SC. That was when he wrote his renowned novel ‘The Notebook’.

In 1994, at the age of 28, he wrote The Notebook over a period of six months. In October 1995, rights to The Notebook were sold to Warner Books. It was published in October 1996. After being published in 1996, ‘The Notebook’ made the best seller list of The New York Times instantly. He followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember(1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010) and The Best of Me (2011), non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother (2004), co-written with his brother Micah. His seventeenth novel, The Longest Ride, was published on September 17, 2013. All of

his books published with Warner Books/ Grand Central Publishing. All were domestic and international best sellers, and his work has been translated into more than 35 languages.

2. Summary of the Novel

Noah begins by saying that he is eighty years old, that he does not regret any of the paths he has chosen to travel, and that the paths today are more rocky than those of years ago. He describes his day in the nursing home. He says that he picks up a notebook that he has read many times and passes many doors. The people inside - like he - have gotten accustomed to being alone with only a television for company, and that a person can get used to anything. He reaches a particular room and goes inside where he is greeted by nurses caring for a woman who is obviously upset. Noah says mornings are always difficult and she will calm down later when the nurses have gone. Noah knows the odds and science are both against him, and that he simply hopes for a miracle. Believing in prayer as he does, he takes time to pray as he opens the book, puts on glasses and picks up a magnifying glass, and prepares to read.

The notebook is the story of Noah and Allie, two who were lovers as teenagers in a summer romance, but her family and the socio-economic realities of the time prevent them from being together. Then they were separated by Allie's parents who felt Noah wasn't the best man for her. Noah attempts to keep in contact

with Allie after they are forced to separate, he writes letters to Allie over the years, but Allie's mother with holds them and Allie assumes Noah has forgotten her. His letters go unanswered. Eventually, Noah professes his undying and eternal love in one final letter. Noah travels north to find gainful employment and to escape the ghost of Allie. He joins the military and eventually he goes off to war. inherits money from a previous employer that allows him to buy a historic house and repair it.

A newspaper article about his endeavor catches Allie's eye. 14 years after she last saw Noah, Allie comes to visit him. Three weeks from her wedding date but seemingly unable to marry without seeing Noah one more time. The only problem is she is engaged to another man, Lon. After spending two wonderful reunion days together with Noah, Allie leaves but realizes she can't love anyone like she loves Noah but she doesn’t want to hurt Lon because she loves him too. And Allie must decide between the two men that she loves.

This is the story Noah reads to Allie and occasionally she responds to him, though the medical professionals say her response is impossible. On a particular day, Noah reads the story and Allie asks which man the woman in the story chooses. She confesses that she doesn't know Noah and doesn't know her own name. They talk for hours with Allie later saying she knows which of the two the woman in the story picked, though she doesn't seem yet to equate that story with herself. Noah admits that it breaks his heart that she doesn't know him, but that these days are much better

than the days in which he tried to make her remember. He says that on those days, they'd both be exhausted with him answering questions and her anguish at having lost everything, including memories of her children.

Through their lives, the two have written letters to each other and these provide memories for Noah. He likens living this near Allie without ever again being able to fully possess her love to the relationship between day and night, combined at dusk but never quite touching.

Then Noah suffers a stroke and for a while it seems he might not survive. When he does return to the nursing facility where he and Allie have lived since the onset of her Alzheimer's, he wants to see her. It's their forty-ninth anniversary but it's also against the rules for him to visit her at night. He tries to sneak past the nurse station. He is confronted by a nurse who is touched by his love for Allie and who turns her head as he shuffles past. When he reaches her room, he finds Allie in bed in her room, asleep. He vows not to wake her but does anyway. When she sees him, there's a light of recognition in her eyes and tells him that she loves him. They kiss and fall asleep next to each other, believing their love will take them away together.

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3. THE ANALYSIS 3.1 Noah’s Love to Allie

Noah Calhoun was one of the main characters in this novel. Noah was a 31 years old man. He was tall and strong, with light brown hair, and handsome in his own way, his voice with an accent that was soft and fluent, almost musical in quality. Noah came from a poor family. He worked at a timber yard in North Carolina. He was a hard-working man. Years of heavy lifting at the timber yard helped him excel in sports, and his athletic success led to popularity. And he loved to read books of poetry.

In 1932, the first time he met with a girl who he really loves, Allie. Noah fell in love with Allie in the summer after graduating from high school. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he’d taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of my life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect.” (Sparks, 1996 : 22)

Noah had fallen in love with Allie at first sight. He got to know about Allie. They were in love to each other. They met in the following days, and the day after that, and they soon became inseparable. They spent their days doing funny things. They spent the rest of summer together. It was the best summer ever for both of them.

Unfortunately, they were seperated by Allie’s parents. They thought that Noah was not deserve for Allie, because he was from a different status. He was poor.

By early September, the tobacco had been harvested and Allie had no choice but to return with her family to Winston-Salem. But Noah kept loving Allie no matter what. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“Only the summer is over, Allie, not us,” he’d said the morning she left. “We’ll never be over.” (Sparks, 1996 : 37)

After she left, Noah could not get her off his mind. He was always thinking about her. He had been haunted by the ghost of her memory, what they had done together and places where they had been spent the time with. He saw the things that brought her back to life. He wrote her letters for 2 years but they were unanswered.But, his love was strong and never wavered. What an endless love was. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“He continued to think about Allie at night. He wrote to her once a month but never received a reply. Eventually he wrote one final letter and forced himself to accept the fact that the summer they’d spent with one another was the only thing they’d ever share.” (Sparks, 1996 : 38-39)

He decided to leave New Bern because the depression had made earning the living in New Bern almost impossible. He went first to Norfolk and worked there, then moved to New Jersey. He had tried to forget Allie even though he knew that he could not, and it was imposibble to do. But he did not give up on his love. He tried to find her. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“Three years after the last letter, he went to Winston-Salem in the hope of finding her. He went to her house, discovered that she had moved and, after talking to some neighnours, finally called her father’s firm. The girl who answered was new and didn’t recognize the name, but she poked around the personel files for him. She found out that Allie’s father had left the company and that no forwarding address was listed. That was the first and last time he ever looked for her.” (Sparks, 1996 : 39)

In December 1941, the war began, Noah went back to New bern to inform his father of his intention to enlist, and say goodbye to him. Five weeks later he found himself in the training camp. He spent his next three years with Army. Just before he was discharged, he received a letter from a lawyer in New Jersey representing Morris Goldman, a man who he had ever worked for. He got a copy of a certificate entitling him to a small percentage of the bussiness for his loyalty and hard-working. He spent the money to buy an old big house in New Bern and repaired it as he and Allie had dream. The reporter of the Raleigh paper had done an article about his good restorations. That article brought Allie back to New Bern and found him after fourteen years of seperation.

He was amazed and happy for Allie’s coming. He stared at her and realized how much he had missed her. Then, they went for a walk. Allie told him that she had been enganged. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“I’m glad you came. It’s good to see you again. You were the best friend i ever had, Allie. I’d still like to be friends, even if you are engaged, and even if it is just for a couple of days. How about we just kind of get to know each other again?” (Sparks, 1996 : 65)

Noah tried to accept it even it was hurt. But it did not change his feeling to her. He asked her for a dinner at his house, and both of them were really enjoyed it. They talked much, they also talked about her fiance, Lon. He would like to see Allie again. It can be seen from quotation below:

“I had a great time tonight,”he said, “thank you for finding me.” “I did, too,” she answered.

The next day, Allie came to his house again. They talked about their own past. Noah could not hide his feeling and said it to Allie. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable, Allie. I didn’t meant to. But that summer has stayed with me and probably always will. I know it can’t be the same between us, but that doesn’t change the way I felt about you then.” (Sparks, 1996 : 129)

They spent the day in each other’s arms, making love by the fire. Making up for their years apart, and then slept in each other’s arm that night. Noah looked at Allie, and felt as if everything were suddenly tight in his world. Look at the quotation below:

“When the lump in his throat subsided, he whispered to her, “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine, I always have and I always will.” (Sparks, 1996 : 155-156)

In the next aftenoon, Allie’s mom came and told Allie that Lon had known about Noah, and he was in New Bern looking for Allie. Allie had to go back to the hotel, Lon waited for her there. Noah was sad, he did not want to lose her again. He begged her to keep staying. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“It doesn’t have to be like this, Allie,” he said. “We’re adults now, we have the choice we didn’t have before. We’re meant to be together. We always have been.” He walked to her side and put his hand on her shoulder. “I don’t want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.” (Sparks, 1996 : 170)

In the end, Allie chose Noah. They lived happily till they were getting old. He kept loving her even if Allie would suffer from Alzheimer disease when they were older.

3.2 Lon’s Love to Allie

Lon Hammond Jr was known as the obstacle to Allie’s love in this novel. Lon was Allie’s fiance. He was a rich guy, handsome, charming, intelligent and driven. He was eight years older than Allie. He was a successful lawyer from a good family who will provide a good life for Allie, and he pursued his job with passion.

Lon and Allie met in 1942, the world at war. At that time, she was volunteering at a hospital downtown. He loved Allie and knew what he wanted when he met her. He treated Allie very good even though he was so busy with his career as a successful lawyer. He always understand what Allie needed. He was listened well and they were rarely argued. Even he let her to visit some antique shops near the coast for few days beside she need a break from planning their wedding, despite it was just a reason that Allie made to visit her past.

He worried about her especially after her leaving for antique shops, even though she called him. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“And now a little detail bothered him. Not about the case. That was fine. It was something else. Something about Allie. But damn, he couldn’t put his finger on it. some time after her call, maybe an hour or so, something clicked in his mind. The little detail. Detail... Something insignificant? Something important? “ (Sparks, 1996 : 103)

Almost four years been together, Allie was the only thing what he wanted and needed. He realized that he was too busy with his work and had to spend time with her. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“He thought about her then. He loved her, he was sure of that. Not only was she beatiful and charming, but she’d become his source of stability and best friend as well. After a hard day at work, she was the first person he would call. She would listen to him, laugh at the right moments, and had a six sense about what he needed to hear. He knew he should spend more time with her. But practising law made limiting his hours imposibble. She’d always understood, but still he cursed himself for not making the time. Once he was married he’d shorten his hours, he promised himself.” (Sparks, 1996 : 104)

Knowing Allie was in New Bern, it was made him very anxious. He knew about her past, Noah. Then, he decided to go to New Bern to see her. But his coming would not change anything, especially her felling to Noah. He could not force Allie to love him.

3.3 Allie’s Love to Noah

Allie Nelson was 29 years old, and she was one of main characters in this novel. Allie was a beautiful girl who has emerald eyes, sweet smile, blonde hair which loose beautifully on her shoulders, cheery and full of confidence in herself. She was an artist. Fiery, spontaneous, and passionate – like most artists to be. What an amazing artistic talent that she had.

Allie was spending the summer in New Bern with her family where she met Noah. Allie loved Noah even though her parents prevented them from being together. It was because he was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve

if their daughter became serious with someone like him. But Allie was not care because she loved Noah very much. Most of the summer, she had to make excuses to her parents whenever they wanted to see each other. She was made Noah sure that she always will love him. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“I don’t care what my parents think, I love you and always will,” she would say. “We’ll find a way to be together.” (Sparks, 1996 : 37)

Allie never thought that wealth or money could make her happy and never see it from other person. It related to the way she chose Noah to be her boyfriend. She just used her heart to do whatever she wanted to do. She knew that what her heart says is right. She has to be brave to decide what she wants.

But her parents did not understand about her willings. Allie’s parents obviously did not agree with her decisions for her life to be with Noah because different status. They just knew what they did is the best for her without asking first. Her parents really wanted their daughter can be happy in her future with a rich man who can give her everything she wants. She was very upset to her parents because to set her life. She has to accept this condition, having parents like that and all the condition they had in family. Because from the religion side, we are taught to respect parents. That was Allie received in her mind. She has to respect her parents and make decision for her parents kindness, although not for herself.

After Allie was split up with Noah, then she had been engaged with Lon. She kept thinking about Noah even though she has someone else. Moreover, after she saw the article in the Raleigh paper about Noah restoring a house. She need to to

come and see her summer love again. She has to make a choice, there must be a decision made to clear the choices. She wondering whether she has to meet Noah or not, because in other condition she was engaged with Lon. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“Wondering if she’d made the right decision. She’d struggled with it for days—and had struggled some more this evening—but in the end, she knew she would never forgive herself if she let the opportunity slip away.” (Sparks, 1996 : 26)

From the quotation above it shows that she becomes frustration with herself because of her choice. Herself told her that she has to meet him. Every decision-making process produces a final choice that may or may not prompt action. She hoped that her decision would not be regreted later on.

Noah and Allie has been seperated for fouteen years. She decided to meet him in New Bern before her wedding day with Lon. She thought that she has to meet him even for the last time. She lied to Lon and did not tell him the real reason. It can be seen from the qoutation below:

“The week before, she’d hinted to him that she might want to visit some antique shops near the coast. “It’s just a couple of days,” she said, “and besides, I need a break from planning the wedding.” She felt bad about the lie, but knew there was no way she could tell him the truth. Her leaving had nothing to do with him, and it wouldn’t he fair of her to ask him to understand.” (Sparks, 1996 : 27)

She lied for meeting and spending time with Noah for few days. She even lied again and did not want to call Lon back when Lon was looking for her. She thought that it was her time, so she wanted to spend it doing what she wanted. It can be seen from the qoutation below:

“She looked at her watch, acting now. “Is it really almost twelve ?”. The manager looked at the clock. “Yes, a quarter to”. “Unfortunately,” she started, “he’s in court right now and i can’t reach him. If he does call again, could you tell him I’m shopping and I’ll try to call him later ?”. (Sparks, 1996 :120)

Allie was unconcerned about the phone calls anymore. She only paid her attention to be with Noah because he was the love that she ever had on summer. She never forget it the summer.

Allie and Noah spent time together and talked about many stuff. She really enjoyed it. They talked about what they had been through without each other. She said how was her feeling to Noah since then till that day where they met again. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“There’s never been another, Noah. You weren’t the first. You’re the only man-I’ve ever been with, I don’t expect you to say the same thing, but I wanted you to know”. (Sparks, 1996 : 150)

Allie fell in love again with Noah. But deep down in her heart, she was dilemma. She knew that in the end she has to choose between Noah and Lon. It can be seen from quotation below:

“I don’t know. I really don’t. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in my life.” She squeezed his hand. “And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.” She took a deep breathe before going on. “But I also want a happy ending without hurting anyone. And I know that if I stayed, people would be hurt. Especially Lon.” (Sparks, 1996 : 168-169)

She loved Noah and Lon but in different way and reason. For Allie, they were both good men. Having to make the choice of who to be with for the rest of her life was not an easy decision to make. She has no idea who the one will she choose.

She fought her dilemma. Finally, she knew which one she loved the most. Someone that she really wanted to spend her life with. He was Noah, her summer love. He who had build her a house that she has ever been described years before with no guarantee. He was always going to win her heart. Allie believed that he can give everything to her and make her happy, so does Noah. Love is worth to be fought.

3.4 Allie’s Love to Lon

It was almost four years since the first time Lon and Allie met in 1942. When Lon, with his easy charm, introduced himself at a party, she saw in him exactly what she needed: someone with confidence about the future and a sense of humour that drove all her fears away. He treated her so good. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“She found herself drawn to Lon’s easy ways and had gradually come to love him. Despite the long hours he worked, he was good to her. He was a gentleman, mature and responsible, and during those terrible periods of the war when she needed someone to hold her, he never once turned her away. She felt secure with him and knew he loved her as well and that was why she has accepted his proposal”. (Sparks, 1996 : 29)

Loved by a good man it is the dream of all women. Have a good life and live happily as expected. Allie even knew how her future would be. She will live the kind of life she always expected with Lon. It can be seen from the quotation below:

“Lon was a good man, the kind of man she’d always known she would marry. With him there would be no suprises, and there was comfort in knowing what the future would bring. He would be a kind husband and she would be a good wife. She would have a home near friends and family, children, a respectable place in society. It was the kind of life she’d always expected to live. And though she wouldn’t describe theirs as a passionate relationship, she had convinced herself long ago that this wasn’t

necessary for fulfilment. Passion would fade in time and things like companionship and compatibility would take its place. She and Lon had this, and she had assumed this was all she needed” (Sparks, 1996 : 132)

Allie loved Lon but not like the way she loved Noah. She did not want to hurt Lon by choosing Noah, because she loved him too. It can bee seen from the quotation below:

“But I also want a happy ending without hurting anyone. And I know that if I stayed, people would be hurt. Especially Lon. I wasn’t lying when i told you that I love him. He doen’t make me feel the same way you do, but i care for him, and this wouldn’t be fair to him. But staying here would also hurt my family and friends. I would be betraying everyone I know... I don’t know if i can do that.” (Sparks, 1996 : 169)

She felt guilty for visiting her past. She knew that it was not easy for Lon, for her, either. She had to fight her dillema. Even though in the end Lon was not the one she spend the rest of her life with.

4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion

After describing the characters in Nicholas Sparks’ novel “The Notebook”, conflict happened because of unfulfilled desire upon choices available. Notall choices are made into real for man has a limited power to find all what he or shewants. Life is full with choices that cannot be fulfilled totally with satisfaction result.

Allie met Noah in summer, they loved each other and spent the rest of summer joyfully. But it had to be ended because of Allie’s parents. The difference of status was the reason of it. In this story, the differences were the sort of choices that could not be avoided to exist. Although, the conflict and the differences could be solved if there would be an understanding. Especially, it is based on love.

Everyone has planned his or her own bright future. How if there is no something that could do, and the reason was because of the role of parents that only see from status. As Allie has been seperated from Noah because of her parents. There must be a kind of respect to parents who look after their child since childhood. Thus, Allie, as a daughter, seems to be in difficult situation to set side of her parents or her own wants.

This is a kind of situation that brings moment of hard decision to achieve. The solution on this kind of conflict is bravery to take risk for the kindness of what has decided. Whatever the reason is, life needs consequency because all choice cannot be fulfilled completely as what he or she wants.

After the seperation of fourteen years, Allie came to see Noah again before her wedding with Lon Hammond Jr, a successful lawyer. Allie loved Noah, even though she has Lon. She loved both of them in different ways.. Noah was the one whom she loved and wanted to live her future together. On the other hand, she did not want to hurt Lon. But she had to choose one of them. Even though someone would get hurt.

Sometimes, to get something what we really want and need, we have to do a sacrifice. Even though it is hard to do. Because true love is worth to be fought.

4.2 Suggestion

As a kind of literature, novel is a social medium to understand what life is. It is a summary of life matters that has been imagined and created by the novelist. Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook is a good and interesting novel. It is full with insights that relate to real life. There are a lot of love experiences it wants to share for the readers. The analysis of triangle love as I have done in this analysis is only a piece from many pieces of experience it may give. I think students of literature may study this novel more deeply for having literary insights.

I hope this paper analysis may encourage students of literature to look closely at novel in general and Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook in particular. This analysis can be made, I hope, as reference for further study of literature research. Irrespective of being subjective, the analysis of literature can be objective for it offers factual experience of human beings and love. This kind of phenomenon can be traced in the novel The Notebook.

Finally, I hope much this analysis may at least add the vocabulary of literary study in which may be useful for students of literature later on. That is why this thesis analysis is open for further study in its weakness. However, the analysis it offers has given the notion that is better to try than to do nothing. I hope this paper may encourage students of literature to make vigorous research in literary works.

2. GENERAL CONCEPT OF LOVE

2.1 The Meaning of Love

Love has unlimited power and plays an important role in human’s life. Love does not need the formula of scientific studies. It is needed understanding, honor, respect and tolerance. The term of love is also applied to the state of feeling and love is also part of human life. Love makes life sweeter, and stronger. All of us have had love since we were young and will have it till someday when we leave the world also we experience love from our earliest moment.

Love is a force of when, and where love expresses itself. You can choose to surrender to love, or not, but in the end love strikes like lightening, unpredictable and irrefutable. Love is inherently free. It cannot be bought, sold, or traded. You can neither make someone love you, nor can prevent it. Love has no territory, no borders, no quantifiable mass or energy output.

Love is a form of human’s deepest and most expected emotions. Humans might lie, cheat, and even kill in the name of love and hope rather die than lose the love. Love can touch every person and of all ages (Sternberg, 1988).

Love itself is a very important requirement for mankind so that without love, growth and development of individual abilities will be hampered (Goble, 1991).

Love is also believed to be one of the most important emotion for humans so that almost all individuals have experienced falling in love (Roediger, 1987).

Love is a widely misunderstood although it is highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

Meaning of love has changed over time. Bloom (1993) suggests that the distinction between love and sex become blurred in modern societies. Bloom observes that in earlier times the word love was reserved for describing the overwhelming attraction of one individual for another. In modern times, “Love seems to refer a much broader range of ways of relating to another person. And sex is a word that tells us that individuals are acting upon certain bodily needs.” Bloom comments that isolation, a sense of lack of contact with others, and loss of human connections seem to be prevalent consequences of modern society.

Mifflin (1987) defines that love is a strong affection or deep concern for another person. love can be communicated in many different ways. It is expressed through words, for example, or through touch or other actions that show admiration and concern. Love often grows with time. The ability to love is one of most pleasurable parts of living. All people have the ability to give love and the need to receive it.

Love is described as an abstract thing found in every man’s and woman’s life. It can not be separated from human life. Love has been old already and even historians do not know how long it has been and will be live. The feelings and the behaviors of lover are: warmth, contentment, excitement, oneness, limitless, infinite, boundless, totally encompassing, lucky, faith, trust, dynamic, effort, commitment,

tender, multicolored, active, healthy, energetic, courageous, forward-looking, patient, robust, openness, honesty, understanding, and fun. Throughout these words, there is a clear emphasis on activity rather than passivity. Loving is an active process. When we feel loving, it seems like we can not keep what’s inside; we have to reach out, touch, embrace, hold, kiss.

The meaning of love is not strictly defined as passion of owning something completely. It is expressed and defined in a variety of ways. Friendship is a simple example that human being need in their lives. It is one form of love which links loyalty toward each other and shares interest and support. Such feelings and behavior are form of love. The caring among parents, children, brothers and sisters is an implementation of love, human beings may reciprocally.

Friendship have small differences with love, in friendships we do not needs physical contact like sex but in love we needs physical contact from someone we love. Beside that friendship have same enjoyment. Friendship involves enjoyment, such as; acceptance, trust, respect, mutual assistance, confiding, and understanding. However, relationships with spouses and lovers, unlike friendships, are marked by strong emotion and strong caring. Sometimes relationships with friends are more stable or reliable than relationships among spouses or lovers (Davis, 1985).

It is notable that the meaning of love can be wrongly implied. Love is not belong to an individual. It is shared in the nuance of true meaning of life itself. Yet, what love may give is the same as what love may take. It is equally and belongingness. However, if the implication of love is interpreted wrongly, it will tend

to destroy the good side of friendship and togetherness that human beings eternally dream for.

Of what love has positively given to be understood is the sense of attention. It is an attention the love has made men realize to the feelings and symptoms of love socially and morally. Children are teased about whom they love and are taught to recognize feelings and symptoms of love. They are told that love is important. Love is universal human potential, but it is highly disruptive of existing social arrangements.

Walster in Popenoe (1986) believes that love is the basis for union. It can be traced the way of many people talk about it, sing about it, write about it into novels, plays, and poems. The kind of love that is typically thought of as the basis for togetherness is a mixture of attraction, feelings of excitement and idealization of loved one. the entire complex of norms surrrounding love is tied to this ideal of building strong togetherness. The dream of love and happiness of people involved in this union where someone can share their feeling either in sadness or happiness.

The true meaning of love that shines togetherness is as sweet as the name is. It is not enough to define as what it is because the word of love gives more than what it means. Though it is understood and practiced differently, it is kept in one eternally, and morally that is to treat others as what others want to be treated equally. To say simply, it is a love that can make people know who they are able to live together far from hatred and prejudice and understanding each other.

2.2 Some Aspects of Love

The word “love” makes our mind automatically move to something special which concerns without heart, a feeling that makes us feel warm. This world also reminds us many splendid things.

Love has its own power with a strong affection and tender feeling love can not be separated from human life, whatever and however no matter he or she is from high or low class. Love is abstract, but when it comes to someone, then he or she is ready to sacrifice and take the high risk.

There is an important aspect of love that may bridge unity among individuals. It is universal to understand and accept painfulness, awesomeness, and pleasure that love may transmit. Love teaches how to forgive the mistake in order to get the missing part of humanity.

Love is incidentally confusing as well as delighting. It can bring both happiness and sadness. It controls our moods and sometimes can cause people to act strangely. It can change a person from bad to good and even good to bad, but it plays important role in human life. The term of love can not be separated from human life such as love for the children or family and love for someone special. So God creates human beings with the feeling of love.

In this case, the writer will try to discuss it by giving some definitions from expert. “Love is the attraction, desire or affection felt for a person who arouse delight and admiration or elects tenderness, sympathy, interest or benevolence. Love usually arouse warm attachment, enthusiasm of devotion. The writer examines that there is

something appearing by the existence of love. It comes from the inner of our heart and whenever a person is falling in love, he will behave awkwardly.

Collins Cobuild says: “If you love someone, you have very strong felling and affection toward them and feel romantically or sexuality attracted to them and they are very important to you and you feel that their happiness is very important to you and usually show this feeling in the way you be have toward them” (1984:46)”. We believe that love encourages a person to do everything good for somebody he loves and deep the feeling of love is shown by one’s behavior. Love can only move smoothly in the relationship of two person who have understood each other very well and care for one another deeply.

The feeling of love is very inherent in the life of a normal human being. This is a common truth. This statement implies that “love” is one thing that makes one’s life more meaningful and interesting. It can create a more energetic and delightful life to the person in love. We realize there are some processes when we feel that we are in love with other, such as the process of linking between people of the opposite sex.

Another contemporary theory of love, and one that has produced a widely used measurement instrument, is the typology developed by Lee (1977, 1988). Each variety of love is likened to a primary and secondary colors or styles of love (hence the title of Lee’s book, Colours of Love, 1973).

These are three primary colors or styles of love: 1. Eros

Eros is an intensely emotional experience that is similar to passionate love. In fact, the most typical symptom of eros is an immediate and powerful attraction to the beloved individual. The erotic lover is “turned on” by a particular physical type, it is prone to fall instantly and completely in love with a stranger (i.e., to experience “love at first sight”), rapidly becomes preoccupied with pleasant thoughts about that individual, feels an intense need for daily contact with the beloved, and wishes the relationship to remain exclusive. Erotic love also has a strong sexual component. For example, the erotic lover desires the beloved sexually, usually seeks some forms of sexual involvement fairly early in the relationship, and enjoys expressing his or her affection through sexual contact. In sum, the erotic lover is “eager to get to know the beloved quickly, intensely—and undressed” (Lee, 1988, p. 50).

2. Ludus

Ludus (or game-playing) love. The ludic lover views love as a game to be played with skill and often with several partners simultaneously. The ludic lover has no intention of including the current partner (or partners) in any future life plans or events and worries about any sign of growing involvement, need, or intense attachment from the partner. As the quintessential commitmentphobe, the ludic lover avoids seeing the partner too often, believes that lies and deception are justified, and expects the partner to remain in control of his or her emotions. In addition, ludic

lovers tend to prefer a wide variety of physical types and view sexual activity as an opportunity for pleasure rather than for intense emotional bonding.

3. Storge

Storge is the third primary love color. Described by Lee (1973) as “love without fever or folly” (p. 77), storge resembles Lewis’s concept of Affection in that it is stable and based on a solid foundation of trust, respect, and friendship. Indeed, the typical storgic lover views and treats the partner as an “old friend,” does not experience the intense emotions or physical attraction to the partner associated with erotic love, prefers to talk about and engage in shared interests with the partner rather than to express direct feelings, is shy about sex, and tends to demonstrate his or her affection in nonsexual ways. To the storgic lover, love is an extension of friendship and an important part of life but is not a valuable goal in and of itself.

And these are three secondary love styles that identified by Lee. The secondary colors or styles of love is formed and contained by features of the primary love styles but also possess their own unique characteristics.

1. Pragma

A combination ofstorge and ludus, is “the love that goes shopping for a suitable mate”(Lee, 1973, p. 124). The pragmatic lover has a practical outlook on loveand seeks a compatible lover. He or she creates a shopping list offeatures or attributes desired in the partner and selects a mate basedon how well that individual fulfills the requirements (similarly, he orshe will drop a partner who fails to “measure

up” to expectations).Pragmatic love is essentially a faster-acting version of storge that hasbeen quickened by the addition of ludus.

2. Mania

The combination of eros and ludus, is another secondary love style. Manic lover is lack of the self-confidence associated with eros and the emotional self-control associated with ludus. This obsessive, jealous love style is characterized by self-defeating emotions, desperate attempts to force affection from the beloved, and the inability to believe in or trust any affection the loved one actually does display. The manic lover is desperate to fall in love and to be loved, begins immediately to imagine a future with the partner, wants to see the partner daily, tries to force the partner to show love and commitment, distrusts the partner’s sincerity, and is extremely possessive. This love type is “irrational, extremely jealous, obsessive, and often unhappy” (Lee, 1973, p. 15).

3. Agape

A combination of eros and storge. Agape is similar to Lewis’s concept of Charity and represents an all-giving, selfless love style that implies an obligation to love and care for others without any expectation of reciprocity or reward. This love style is universalistic in the sense that the typical agapic lover believes that everyone is worthy of love and that loving others is a duty of the mature person. With respect to personal love relationships, an agapic lover will unselfishly devote himself or herself to the partner, even stepping aside in favor of a rival who seems more likely to meet the partner’s needs. Although Lee believed that many lovers respect and strive

to attain the agapic ideal, he also believed that the give-and-take that characterizes most romantic relationships precludes the occurrence of purely altruistic love.

Robert Perucci says love is an intense form of linking and love is the characteristic of our Primary relationship. In popular wage, love can note the types of its commitment, trust and willingness to sacrifice. It shows that love also involve our social relationship. Our great need in social relationship to attain the of equality with other people. So, we can say that love, is very unique thing that all of us have had a love experience since we were young until we leave the world.

Love is something unique. It can be felt but can not expressed verbally, because it mainly concerns with the role of feeling and also usually varied according to time, situation and person involved. Needless to say, the meaning of love is sharing the deepest empathy to the others and reflecting how empathy gives amazing moment of self-recognition. With love the real union human relationship will stand strongly and harmoniously.

2.3 The Meaning of Triangle Love

A love triangle is a romantic and complicated relationship scenario where there’s love in the air, it isinvolving three people. When love is mutual and shared between two people, everything is perfect, simple and easy. But when a third person enters the picture, everything changes just like that.

The relationships can be friendships, romantic, or familial. In come the complications and the frustrations, laced with intense happiness and a flow of

bitterness. One person typically ends up feeling betrayed at some point. For example “Person A is person A's eyes, is "his" person”.

A love triangle starts only when there is reciprocation. When a single person starts to feel a reciprocating connection with someone who’s already dating, or if someone in a relationship with one person and start loving someone else who reciprocates that love. It doesn’t matter if someone in a relationship or single, what need to be realized is that love triangles can never ever be created because of one person’s weak moment. It always takes two people to start the complication while the third person suffers for no fault of theirs.

Although the romantic love triangle is formally identical to the friendship triad, as many have noted their actual implications are quite different. Romantic love is typically viewed as an exclusive relationship, whereas friendship is not.

According to Sternberg (1988), there are three components of triangle love. They are:

1. Intimacy

Intimacy refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships. It thus includes within its purview those feelings that give rise, essentially, to the experience of warmth in a loving relationship. Sternberg and Grajek (1984) cluster-analysed data from the loving and liking scales of Rubin (1970) and a close-relationships scale of Levinger, Rands and Talaber (1977), as a result of which they identified 10 clusters in intimacy: (a) desire to promote the welfare of the

loved one; (b) experienced happiness with the loved one; (c) high regard for the loved one; (d) being able to count on the loved one in times of need; (e) mutual understanding with the loved one; (f) sharing of one's self and one's possessions with the loved one; (g) receipt of emotional support from the loved one; (h) giving of emotional support to the loved one; (i) intimate communication with the loved one; and (j) valuing of the loved one in one's life.

2. Passion

Passion refers to the drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomena in loving relationships. The passion component includes within its purview those sources of motivational and other forms of arousal that lead to the experience of passion in a loving relationship. It includes what Hatfield and Walster (1981) refer to as ‘a state of intense longing for union with the other’. In a loving relationship, sexual needs may well predominate in this experience. However, other needs, such as those for self-esteem, succorance, nurturance, affiliation, dominance, submission, and self-actualization, may also contribute to the experiencing of passion.

3. Decision/Commitment

Decision/commitment refers, in the short-term, to the decision that one loves a certain other, and in the long-term, to one's commitment to maintain that love. These two aspects of the decision/commitment component do not necessarily go together, in that one can decide to love someone without being committed to the love

in the long-term, or one can be committed to a relationship without acknowledging that one loves the other person in the relationship.

The three components of love interact with each other: for example, greater intimacy may lead to greater passion or commitment, just as greater commitment may lead to greater intimacy, or with lesser likelihood, greater passion. In general, then, the components are separable, but interactive with each other. Although all three components are important parts of loving relationships, their importance may differ from one relationship to another, or over time within a given relationship.

And the various combinations of these psychological aspects of love create eight separate permutations that cover almost all relationships. They are:

 Nonlove refers simply to the absence of all three components of love. Nonlove characterizes the large majority of our personal relationships, which are simply casual interactions.

 Liking/friendship is used here in a nontrivial sense. Rather, it refers to the set of feelings one experiences in relationships that can truly be characterized as friendship. One feels closeness, bondedness, and warmth toward the other, without feelings of intense passion or long-term commitment.

 Infatuated love is infatuation results from the experiencing of passionate arousal in the absence of intimacy and decision/commitment. Romantic relationships often start out as infatuated love and become romantic love as intimacy develops over time. Without developing intimacy or commitment, infatuated love may disappear suddenly.

 Empty love is characterized by commitment without intimacy or passion. A stronger love may deteriorate into empty love. In an arranged marriage, the spouses’ relationship may begin as empty love and develop into another form, indicating “how empty love need not be the terminal state of a long-term relationship the beginning rather than the end.”

 Romantic love derives from a combination of the intimate and passionate components of love. Romantic lovers are not only drawn physically to each other but are also bonded emotionally - bonded both intimately and passionately, but without sustaining commitment.

 Companionate love is an intimate, non-passionate type of love that is stronger than friendship because of the element of long-term commitment. This type of love is observed in long-term marriages where passion is no longer present but where a deep affection and commitment remain. The love ideally shared between family members is a form of companionate love, as is the love between close friends who have a platonic but strong friendship.

 Fatuous love can be exemplified by a whirlwind courtship and marriage – fatuous in the sense that a commitment is made on the basis of passion without the stabilizing influence of intimate involvement.

 Consummate love is the complete form of love, representing an ideal relationship toward which people strive. Of the seven varieties of love, consummate love is theorized to be that love associated with the “perfect couple.” According to Sternberg, these couples will continue to have great sex fifteen years

or more into the relationship, they cannot imagine themselves happier over the long-term with anyone else, they overcome their few difficulties gracefully, and each delight in the relationship with one other. However, Sternberg cautions that maintaining a consummate love may be even harder than achieving it. He stresses the importance of translating the components of love into action. “Without expression,” he warns, “even the greatest of loves can die.” Thus, consummate love may not be permanent. If passion is lost over time, it may change into companionate love.

And yet, almost all of us end up in one. No one wants to be in a love triangle. A love triangle may start off as an interesting distraction at first, which then unexpectedly turns into love. And this can lead to sticky love triangles where one person could be in love with two people at the same time. When one person doesn’t want to take a step ahead, nor want to take a step back and stay happy in their own relationship, a love triangle starts to form even if try the best to avoid it. Unless there’s a lot of love and bonding in the relationship, a love triangle always leaves a deep scar that tests the person’s faith in the relationship. And almost always, a relationship that is put through the test of a love triangle fails or never regains its former glory.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Literature is an art of written work. Literature may be fiction, providing expression to the creativity of the author and allowing the readers to introduce parts of personal interpretation to the recorded words. Imagination is inspired from thinking of something which relates to the life, nature, and fantasy. It can be restrained as one pleasure.

Wellek and Warren (1971:3) say “Literature is the mirror of human life that portrays human feeling, thought, imagination and perception which can be viewed based on personal judgements”. It consitutes imaginative act from the human’s imagination and interpreting experiences.

Taylor (1981: 1) says “Literature, like other arts, is essentially an imagination in selecting, ordering and interpreting life-experience”. It means that literature is a reflection of life imaginatively. Literature contents of emotion expression, such as felling of sad, happy, jealous and so on.

There has been a long debate of what the functional literature is. The pessimistic opinion would have looked at it as imaginative realism that cannot be studied at all. Literature can only be enjoyed for it tends to offer subjective element rather than objective one. Yet, the rest is more optimistic to value literature as a kind of knowledge that can be studied objectively. It has its medium language which is

materially systematic. Therefore, literature is broadly applicable knowledge which is both subjective and realistic.

The writer has chosen Nicholas Sparks’ novel “THE NOTEBOOK” as the object of this paper because the writer is interested in triangle love in this novel. This novel tells about Noah who met Allie on summer. They have a summer romance and they fall in love to each other. It goes to pieces as he is a working class guy and she is a socialite, it makes her parents do not believ in their love. They split up but the love doesn't die. Noah keeps sending her letter for a year but he got no reply. Right after the war ended, he bought a house in new bern and spent the last eleven months to repair it. The reporter from Raleigh paper had done an article about the house which was one of the finest restorations. For few years seperation, they meet again but Allie had had someone else, Lon. Allie loves Lon, but she still feels the same feeling to Noah like they had been through on summer. Allie did not want to hurt Lon, but another part of her want to get back together again with Noah.

This is the background as well as the reason why the writer chose the paper titled: The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel “The Notebook”. 1.2 The Problem of the Study

The problems of this study can be defined as below: 1. How does Noah love Allie ?

2. How does Lon love Allie ? 3. How does Allie love Noah ? 4. How does Allie love Lon ?

1.3 Scope of the Study

The scope is useful to avoid confusion of the readers in understanding the analysis and acquire good result. Since literature has a wide field of studying, the writer keep on her attention to discuss the triangle love found in the novel in order not to run away from the real topic being discussed.

1.4 Purpose of the Study

The purpose of the study in this paper is to describe the triangle love among Noah Calhoun, Allie Nelson, and Lon Hammond Jr.

1.5 Reason for Choosing the Topic

The writer has chosen Nicholas Sparks’ Novel “THE NOTEBOOK” as the subject of the paper, because the writer is interested to describe the triangle love among Noah Calhoun, Allie Nelson, and Lon Hammond Jr.

1.6 Method of the Study

The writer uses two methods to collect the data, they are library research and internet research. Method of library research for finding data is reading the novel then takes some important ideas to be the subject matter and collecting some book which relevant to the analysis of this paper to be references. Method of Internet research is inviting the website that relevans to this paper to find the material then the data is copied to be reference.

ABSTRACT

The title of this paper is The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook”, it is a kind of triangle love among Allie Nelson, Noah Calhoun, and Lon Hammond Jr.Allie and Noah loved each other, but their love had to be ended because of Allie’s parents did not agree with their relationship because of different status. Allie came from a rich family and Noah came from a poor family. Allie had no choice except leaving Noah and had to return to Winston-Salem with his parents. After the seperation, Allie made the relationship with a successful lawyer, Lon. Three weeks before her wedding, she came to see Noah. That condition made her to be dilemma and had to choose who she would spend the rest of her life with.In writing this paper, the writer used the method of library and intrinsic approach. From the analysis, the writer found that the conclusion of this analysis, because there was a different status and this conflict sadly in heart. Hopefully, by this paper the readers can understand the elements of novel especially the main characters and the triangle love which has been described by the novelist.

ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook yang merupakan suatu pembahasan mengenai cinta segitiga yang terjadi antara Allie Nelson, Noah Calhoun, dan Lon Hammond Jr. Allie dan Noah saling mencintai, namun cinta mereka harus berakhir karena orang tua Allie yang tidak menyetujui hubungan mereka karena perbedaan status. Allie berasal dari keluarga kaya dan Noah berasal dari keluarga miskin. Allie tidak punya pilihan lain selain meninggalkan Noah dan kembali ke Winston-Salem bersama orangtuanya. Setelah perpisahan itu, Allie menjalin hubungan dengan pengacara sukses yang bernama Lon. Tiga minggu sebelum pernikahannya, Allie datang mengunjungi Noah. Keadaan tersebut membuat Allie menjadi dilema dan harus menetukan dengan siapa dia akan menghabiskan masa hidupnya. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan intrinsik. Dari hasil analisis, penulis memperoleh kesimpulan bahwa akar permasalahan dari konflik tersebut adalah dikarenakan perbedaan status dan bentuk penyelesaiannya adalah sangat diperlukan mengikuti kata hati dalam apapun yang dilakukan. Semoga dengan adanya kertas karya ini para pembaca dapat mengerti unsur dalam novel khususnya makna cinta segitiga yang digambarkan oleh penulis novel.

THE DESCRIPTION OF TRIANGLE LOVE IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL “THE NOTEBOOK”

A PAPER

BY NURUL FAJAR REG. NO. 122202065

DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDY

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA MEDAN

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Accepted by the Board of Examiners in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the D-III Examination of the Diploma III English Study Program, Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera.

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ABSTRACT

The title of this paper is The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook”, it is a kind of triangle love among Allie Nelson, Noah Calhoun, and Lon Hammond Jr.Allie and Noah loved each other, but their love had to be ended because of Allie’s parents did not agree with their relationship because of different status. Allie came from a rich family and Noah came from a poor family. Allie had no choice except leaving Noah and had to return to Winston-Salem with his parents. After the seperation, Allie made the relationship with a successful lawyer, Lon. Three weeks before her wedding, she came to see Noah. That condition made her to be dilemma and had to choose who she would spend the rest of her life with.In writing this paper, the writer used the method of library and intrinsic approach. From the analysis, the writer found that the conclusion of this analysis, because there was a different status and this conflict sadly in heart. Hopefully, by this paper the readers can understand the elements of novel especially the main characters and the triangle love which has been described by the novelist.

ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook yang merupakan suatu pembahasan mengenai cinta segitiga yang terjadi antara Allie Nelson, Noah Calhoun, dan Lon Hammond Jr. Allie dan Noah saling mencintai, namun cinta mereka harus berakhir karena orang tua Allie yang tidak menyetujui hubungan mereka karena perbedaan status. Allie berasal dari keluarga kaya dan Noah berasal dari keluarga miskin. Allie tidak punya pilihan lain selain meninggalkan Noah dan kembali ke Winston-Salem bersama orangtuanya. Setelah perpisahan itu, Allie menjalin hubungan dengan pengacara sukses yang bernama Lon. Tiga minggu sebelum pernikahannya, Allie datang mengunjungi Noah. Keadaan tersebut membuat Allie menjadi dilema dan harus menetukan dengan siapa dia akan menghabiskan masa hidupnya. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan intrinsik. Dari hasil analisis, penulis memperoleh kesimpulan bahwa akar permasalahan dari konflik tersebut adalah dikarenakan perbedaan status dan bentuk penyelesaiannya adalah sangat diperlukan mengikuti kata hati dalam apapun yang dilakukan. Semoga dengan adanya kertas karya ini para pembaca dapat mengerti unsur dalam novel khususnya makna cinta segitiga yang digambarkan oleh penulis novel.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for blessing and giving me health, strength and ease to accomplish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Study Program Faculty of Culture Studies, University of Sumatera Utara. And I present shalawat to Prophet Muhammad SAW as my good example in my life and I hope his blessing in the beyond

Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love, and appreciation to: • My beloved parents,Syamsir ST and Yenny Mushlihah S.pd. I deeply thank

you for all your motivations, your endless supports, prayers, loves, advices and financial. I present this paper for you.

• Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara.

• Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, M.A., as the Head of English Diploma Study Program, who gives me a lot of knowledge.

• Drs. M. Syafi’i Siregar, M.A., as my supervisor. Thank you for the valuable time

in directing, correcting,and giving me constructive critics in completing this paper. • Drs. Chairul Husni, M.Ed., TESOL..,as my reader. Thank you very much for

• My beloved siblings, Minny Syamsiah, Ashri Maulida S.pd, Abdurrasyid Fachrurrozy, and Syamsul Aulia Rahman. Thank you for all of your support and prayers.

• All lecturers in Diploma III English Study Program for giving me advices and knowledge.

• All of my friends in English Diploma Department especially SOLIDAS 2012 class A and B. Thank you so much for the time we have filled together.

• My best friends Diah Ayu Ramadhani, Ahada Shilha, Muhammad Bagus, Bahrun Nada, Yuyun Maulizar, Yuslida Zulkanita, and Lya Firma S. Thank you for your support, cares and other things that help me to complete this paper. Thank you for the nice friendship and always been there for me for happiness and sorrow.

Finally, I do realize that this paper is far from being perfect, I accept any critism for better improvement in the next writing.

Medan, 2015 The Writer,

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pages

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii

ABSTRACT ... iii

ABSTRAK ... iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... v

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii

1. INTRODUCTION ... 1

1.1 The Background of the Study ... 1

1.2 The Problems of Study ... 2

1.3 Scope of Study ... 3

1.4 Purposes of Study ... 3

1.5 Reason for Choosing the Topic ... 3

1.6 Method of the Study ... 3

2. GENERAL CONCEPT OF LOVE ... 4

2.1 The meaning of Love ... 4

2.2 Some Aspects of Love ... 8

2.3 The Meaning of Triangle Love ... ... 13

3. THE ANALYSIS ... 20

3.1 Noah’s Love to Allie ... 20

3.2 Lon’s Love to Allie ... 23

3.3 Allie’s Love to Noah ... ... 25

3.4 Allie’s Love to Lon ... ... 28

4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION ... 30

4.1 Conclusion ... 30

4.2 Suggestion ... 32

REFERENCES ... 33

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION

Name : NURUL FAJAR

Title of Paper : THE DESCRIPTION OF TRIANGLE LOVE IN NICHOLAS

SPARKS’ NOVEL “THE NOTEBOOK”

Qialification : D-III / Ahli Madya

Study Program : English

I am willing that my paper should be available for reproduction at the disrection of the librarian of the Diploma III English Departement Faculty of Culture Studies, University of Sumatera Utara on the understanding that users are made aware of their obligation under law of the Republic of Indonesia.

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ABSTRACT

The title of this paper is The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’

“The Notebook”, it is a kind of triangle love among Allie Nelson, Noah Calhoun,

and Lon Hammond Jr.Allie and Noah loved each other, but their love had to be ended because of Allie’s parents did not agree with their relationship because of different status. Allie came from a rich family and Noah came from a poor family. Allie had no choice except leaving Noah and had to return to Winston-Salem with his parents. After the seperation, Allie made the relationship with a successful lawyer, Lon. Three weeks before her wedding, she came to see Noah. That condition made her to be dilemma and had to choose who she would spend the rest of her life with.In writing this paper, the writer used the method of library and intrinsic approach. From the analysis, the writer found that the conclusion of this analysis, because there was a different status and this conflict sadly in heart. Hopefully, by this paper the readers can understand the elements of novel especially the main characters and the triangle love which has been described by the novelist.

ABSTRAK

Kertas karya ini berjudul The Description of Triangle Love in Nicholas Sparks’

Novel The Notebook yang merupakan suatu pembahasan mengenai cinta segitiga

yang terjadi antara Allie Nelson, Noah Calhoun, dan Lon Hammond Jr. Allie dan Noah saling mencintai, namun cinta mereka harus berakhir karena orang tua Allie yang tidak menyetujui hubungan mereka karena perbedaan status. Allie berasal dari keluarga kaya dan Noah berasal dari keluarga miskin. Allie tidak punya pilihan lain selain meninggalkan Noah dan kembali ke Winston-Salem bersama orangtuanya. Setelah perpisahan itu, Allie menjalin hubungan dengan pengacara sukses yang bernama Lon. Tiga minggu sebelum pernikahannya, Allie datang mengunjungi Noah. Keadaan tersebut membuat Allie menjadi dilema dan harus menetukan dengan siapa dia akan menghabiskan masa hidupnya. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan intrinsik. Dari hasil analisis, penulis memperoleh kesimpulan bahwa akar permasalahan dari konflik tersebut adalah dikarenakan perbedaan status dan bentuk penyelesaiannya adalah sangat diperlukan mengikuti kata hati dalam apapun yang dilakukan. Semoga dengan adanya kertas karya ini para pembaca dapat mengerti unsur dalam novel khususnya makna cinta segitiga yang digambarkan oleh penulis novel.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for blessing and giving me health, strength and ease to accomplish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Study Program Faculty of Culture Studies, University of Sumatera Utara. And I present shalawat to Prophet Muhammad SAW as my good example in my life and I hope his blessing in the beyond

Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love, and appreciation to:

• My beloved parents,Syamsir ST and Yenny Mushlihah S.pd. I deeply thank

you for all your motivations, your endless supports, prayers, loves, advices and financial. I present this paper for you.

• Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, University

of Sumatera Utara.

• Dr. Matius C.A Sembiring, M.A., as the Head of English Diploma Study

Program, who gives me a lot of knowledge.

• Drs. M. Syafi’i Siregar, M.A., as my supervisor. Thank you for the valuable time in directing, correcting,and giving me constructive critics in completing this paper. • Drs. Chairul Husni, M.Ed., TESOL..,as my reader. Thank you very much for

• My beloved siblings, Minny Syamsiah, Ashri Maulida S.pd, Abdurrasyid

Fachrurrozy, and Syamsul Aulia Rahman. Thank you for all of your support

and prayers.

• All lecturers in Diploma III English Study Program for giving me advices and

knowledge.

• All of my friends in English Diploma Department especially SOLIDAS 2012

class A and B. Thank you so much for the time we have filled together.

• My best friends Diah Ayu Ramadhani, Ahada Shilha, Muhammad Bagus,

Bahrun Nada, Yuyun Maulizar, Yuslida Zulkanita, and Lya Firma S. Thank

you for your support, cares and other things that help me to complete this paper. Thank you for the nice friendship and always been there for me for happiness and sorrow.

Finally, I do realize that this paper is far from being perfect, I accept any critism for better improvement in the next writing.

Medan, 2015 The Writer,

Reg. No. 122202065 NURUL FAJAR

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pages

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii

ABSTRACT ... iii

ABSTRAK ... iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... v

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii

1. INTRODUCTION ... 1

1.1 The Background of the Study ... 1

1.2 The Problems of Study ... 2

1.3 Scope of Study ... 3

1.4 Purposes of Study ... 3

1.5 Reason for Choosing the Topic ... 3

1.6 Method of the Study ... 3

2. GENERAL CONCEPT OF LOVE ... 4

2.1 The meaning of Love ... 4

2.2 Some Aspects of Love ... 8

2.3 The Meaning of Triangle Love ... ... 13

3. THE ANALYSIS ... 20

3.1 Noah’s Love to Allie ... 20

3.2 Lon’s Love to Allie ... 23

3.3 Allie’s Love to Noah ... ... 25

3.4 Allie’s Love to Lon ... ... 28

4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTION ... 30

4.1 Conclusion ... 30

4.2 Suggestion ... 32

REFERENCES ... 33