Jamie Sullivan achives it while holding on to her faith, her father and her values. Moore has turned Jamie into a living, breathing Christian that you can cheer for and cry for. Both characters end up defining each other, making them how they are at the end. Please enter the email address that you use to login to TeenInk.com, and we'll email you instructions to reset your password. Even though tragedy strikes Jamie, Landon survives because she taught him that death couldn’t separate he joy and peace that love and goodness brings. One by one, as the film winds down, they each seek out Landon and express sorrow for their hurtful actions and harsh words.

They aren’t gratuitous in that they are used to provide contrast between Jamie (she never swears) and her worldly classmates, but they will make it difficult for many families to get through the early minutes of the film, where most of the foul language is confined. A boy is injured after jumping from a great height into a shallow pool of water. Landon retorts, “You taught me how,” and keeps moving. “Landon, don’t walk away,” his father yells after him. Jamie Sullivan achives it while holding on to her faith, her father and her values. Even to begin dating him, knowing that he is an unbeliever, puts Jamie in a precarious position. She never compromises. AT the start, they are so different and quite opposite; Jamie being the preacher’s daughter who is an “angel” and Landon how is mischievous and needs guiding. He reluctantly turns to Jamie for help with his lines. There’s a refreshing innocence about their friendship and courtship. One vivid evidence of Jamie’s vital Christian walk is her commitment to virginity.

How did you achieve such a successful transition in a character's voice? Looking at her, you would have never imagined by looking at her that she was slowly dying of cancer. A Walk to Remember is a movie that tells an amazing story of two opposites attracting. Theme Analysis: The Discovery of Faith. However, one secret that Jamie had kept hidden from Landon puts a bump in the road and is difficult to get around. Will this unraveled secret tear them apart or just make them stronger? Removing #book# violent content: Early on, Landon and Co. engage in dangerous horseplay. It can be read in two ways, both of which tie into the ambiguous ending.

She never compromises. Landon also helps Jamie by breaking through her very introvert barrier and showing her how to live life in the eyes of God and as a teenager. He has never removed his ring in all those years, and he still loves Jamie. Although Jamie knew she would die at a very young age, her fearlessness enabled Landon to live on. Playing Jamie has actually brought me closer to God and inspired me to go to church more. And if her actions are emulated, they will place young Christians in potentially compromising relationships. And in the process, she exerts great influence on everyone around her. Sparks intentionally leaves these implied questions unanswered so that readers must answer them for themselves. There are things to disapprove of in A Walk to Remember (coarse language, first and foremost), but while Christianity is usually presented as an illness one must recover from, A Walk to Remember vehemently disagrees with that diagnosis. The Heart versus the Mind: The Central Theme in. Christ’s love and reconstructive work lasts forever. Either Jamie survived and they stayed married, or he never removed his ring as a testament to his love for Jamie. and any corresponding bookmarks? It is slow going, but in the eyes of Landon and all the assembled guests it is, indeed, "a walk to remember.". Thank you.

Are we to assume Landon never remarried? The setting of this movie is really important because its about a school in a small town of North Carolina. Fifty-seven-year-old Landon reflects on that day, telling us that he now believes in miracles. Unruly. In order for a boy to enter is gang, he must jump off of an industrial building into a shallow river, ending p in the hospital. The characters are all really interesting because they are so different. Christ is the only one capable of effecting permanent change in a man’s life. In conclusion, A Walk To Remember envelops the human spirit toward the power of goodness and love between two people. And just as in her vision of her wedding day, hundreds of guests turn out for her wedding. As time goes on and Landon spends more time with Jamie, he realizes that she is slowly changing him, but for the better. Landon knows he loves Jamie and knows he would have wanted to marry her even if she had never been ill. "In that year," Landon says, "Jamie helped me become the man I am today.". But he mellows in time (early concerns that Reverend Sullivan will be vilified as a religious weirdo and overbearing parent find welcome release as the story unfolds) and his caustic personality is used to help illustrate two important biblical concepts: faith and forgiveness.
from your Reading List will also remove any CliffsNotes study guides are written by real teachers and professors, so no matter what you're studying, CliffsNotes can ease your homework headaches and help you score high on exams. At the beginning of the story Landon Carter reflects the events that happened forty years from now since he is already 57 years old. Directed by Adam Shankman, this movie tells the story of the school’s bad boy who pulls a prank gone wrong. Which of your works would you like to tell your friends about? This chapter begins with the same words as a Prologue: "When I was seventeen, my life changed forever." And thus the novel ends, without our knowing to which miracle Landon refers. Did Jamie survive and live out the last 40 years with Landon? Romantic love seems inevitable for the pair (at least for those of us watching) from their first confrontation. This is no cardboard caricature. This marvelous movie portrays a love story like no one has ever experienced before. They aren’t changed forever as Landon is, but even removed as they are from the central story line, they realize what’s right and that they haven’t done it. In a subplot, Landon grapples with his feelings for a father who walked out on him and his mom. From their two separate worlds, Jamie and Landon are inexorably drawn together.

Wearing the white gown from the Christmas play, Jamie finds the strength to walk down the aisle with her father. As stated, Landon’s friends make fun of Jamie at almost every opportunity. Directionless. I will say, however, that Landon's growth stemmed organically from both specific events and his interpretation of them, as well as his growing love for Jamie. Later, he makes suggestive sexual motions with his body while mocking a scene from the school play. Neither is she snobbish or self-righteous. It’s so nice to be a part of a teen movie that’s so positive. Pop star Mandy Moore infuses youthful passion into her heart-wrenching portrayal of Jamie. Jamie Sullivan is a jewel of a girl. Jamie is a Christian. It was really nice to take that piece of the character away with me.

AS an individual, Jamie is kind hearted, puts others before herself, and defines what being a Christian really is.
“That won’t be a problem,” Landon replies. A Walk To Remember will forever be a classic in my opinion because of its characters and the overall messages that are portrayed throughout the movie. It’s starting from two young people who first are strangers and then find themselves unexpectedly fall in love with each other. That's the sort of question that's almost impossible to answer, since it goes to the "magic" of writing and no author can fully explain it. Did he, perhaps, become a minister, as Jamie had advised — was that the miracle to which he refers? Even while falling desperately in love with Landon, she never once contemplates sleeping with him outside of marriage. Theater audiences care only for how this cruelty makes Jamie feel. “Booty shaking” comes up once. Reconciliation and a hint at forgiveness come later. She never swerves. Period. It is a 2002 Warner Bros film which starred the 90s pop singer Mandy Moore as the demure, religious, and bookish Jamie Sullivan and punk rock musician Shane West as the popular but rebellious Landon Carter. Landon never accepts Christ as his personal Savior onscreen. Please note that while we value your input, we cannot respond to every message. “[She’ll] put it on a brother like a pop tart,” he laughs.

She has her own relationship with God; she’s not merely the product of her environment. Speeding away from the scene, Landon is pursued by police and crashes his car. It will be a problem. Jamie’s father is harder to embrace. The first message spoke about the unpredictability of death, its timing, its causes, and its life altering results. He doesn’t know it yet, but there’s a spark inside of him that is about to be fanned into flame. These two themes are timeless because he cannot escape death, has no control over when it may occur, and we can’t help but look at those who are troubled and wonder what good intensions and gestures would do for them. conclusion: A Walk to Remember is an antidote to Hollywood’s raging cynicism about Christian values.

Jamie silences her critics, however, with her unimpeachable purity. But it’s not left there.

(These links will automatically appear in your email.). Jamie shows people the other way to go about things.”. Based on the book by Nicholas Sparks (also responsible for the recent Message in a Bottle), A Walk to Remember is just what its title implies.