Conclusions Suggestions CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

4.1 Conclusions

After having analyzed the description of main characters in this paper, character is the most important element in literature. It has a dominant part of literary work which determines the integrated of literature from beginning to the end. In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes. There are four main characters in the novel The Notebook: Noah Calhoun, Allie Hamilton, Anne Nelson, and Lon Hammond Jr. The major characters are Noah Calhoun, Allie Hamilton and Lon Hammond Jr. The minor character is Anne Nelson. The protagonists are Noah and Allie. They are very much in love, but nearly lose each other because of societal influences. They ultimately find the courage and the strength to be with each other as life soul mates. Unfortunately, nature deals them a bad hand at the end of their lives when Allie is struck down with Alzheimer’s disease. It is only Noah’s great love that draws out her own and keeps them together. The antagonists are Anne and Lon. Anne does not think Noah is good enough for their daughter, and Lon, who neglects the woman he loves by prioritizing his career ahead of her. In the end, they have no power to keep these two soul mates apart. The climax occurs when Noah had a stoke at eighty years old. He must read Allie’s final letter again and reminded of the promise she made when she Universitas Sumatera Utara found out she had Alzheimer’s disease, that he would always accompany her in every moments. He tried to tell everything about their memories to her and helped her recovered. Universitas Sumatera Utara

4.2 Suggestions

At the end of this paper, the writer hopes that this paper will make the reader know more about character and plot of the novel. The writer realizes that this paper is still far away from being perfect. For that, in this paper the writer tries to use the simple words to make the readers understand it easily. Finally, by read this paper the writer hopes that the readers are interested in read a literature’s works or even they can make a literary as good as Nicholas Spark’s work. And the writer wants to add that this novel is very good to understand by its words and has positive messages to the reader. Such as the message from this novel is “the first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feeling never goes away ” Universitas Sumatera Utara

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