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his sons heart transplant, this unconvincing piece of schlock received devastating reviews across the board. American critics described it, alternately, as So lacking
in shame that it finally seems laughable, a movie that transcends stupidity and soars into the empyrean of true idiocy, and A shamelessly manipulative
commercial on behalf of national health insurance. The director fared immeasurably better in 2004 with The Notebook. As penned by Jeremy Leven
and Jan Sardi, this gentle and evocative adaptation of Nicholas Sparks bestselling novel follows an elderly man James Garner who reads a heartbreaking period
love story aloud to a female nursing home resident Gena Rowlands. The film then plays out the story-within-the-story, about a couple who share the greatest
summer of their lives with one another, and are then irrevocably separated by their parents and the rise of World War II. The press responded far more kindly to The
Notebook when it premiered in the U.S. on June 25, 2004.
2.8 The Summary of Notebook
The movie starts with an old man in a nursing home reading a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads is about two young lovers named Allie
Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Although Allie refused Noahs request to go on a date at first, she changed her
mind after a double date with her friend. After that, they spent the whole summer together. Allies parents disapproved of this and separated Noah and Allie because
of Noahs lack of wealth. She was a wealthy Southern belle with the world at her feet and he was a country boy who didnt have two dimes to rub together”. After
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waiting for Noah’s letter for several years, Allie met and engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon.
Allie did not know that Noah had written 365 letters, one letter a day for a year. He stopped writing after a year because he had never gotten any responses.
In a local newspaper years later, Noahs picture was caught Allies eyes. He was standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year-old home. Allies heart nearly
bursted and she fainted, the last time she saw the house, it was rotted and decaying, and Noah spoke of his plans to buy and renovate the house.
She felt that she had to go back, saw if Noah is okay, and told him about her marriage. Noah was surprised when he saw Allie at the first. However, he invited
her in after she mistakenly drove into his fence. Noah and Allie had lunch and Noah accompanied her to her car later that evening. He asked her to come back
the next morning, as he had something he wanted to show. Allie went to her hotel and she got a phone call from Lon. She told Lon that she was tired, and would call
him the next day. She went back to Noahs house in the morning and he took her out on the lake in a rowboat. Noah showed Allie a part of the lake, where
hundreds of white ducks were gathered. It started to rain heavily, and turned into an absolute downpour. They both wondered why they ended the relationship each
other and Allie said that she was never ready for the relationship to be over, which Noah replied It never was over for me, it still isnt over, and he then kissed Allie
passionately. He carried her into the house, where they made love for the first time. In the morning, Allie asked Noah why he never wrote to her. Noah told
Allie that he had writted 365 letters but she apparently had never received them.
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When Allies mother came to pick her up after a few days, she learned that her mothers true love was a lumberjack whom she visited to see and wonder what
would have happened if she followed her heart. She then let Allie to decide with whom she would like to be after giving her the letters that Noah had sent. Allie
was then faced with the decision of picking between her fiance Lon, and her true love Noah.
In the end, she realized that she needed Noah in her life. She returned to Noah and they lived a long, wonderful life together. Allie got Alzheimer and soon
forgot all of her life with Noah. Noah read a notebook that had been written by Ally about all that happened in their life together, and soon it made Allie
remembered. At night, Noah sneaked into Allies room and they died together peacefully in their sleep.
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CHAPTER III METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
Method of investigation is the rule to investigate data from the object of the study. This chapter presents the method of the investigation. First, the writer took the
film entitled Notebook as the object of her study and then analyzed the social class inequality that happened in this film.
3.1 Object of the Study
