A Walk to Remember, in many ways, is a coming of age story. It is told from the first person perspective of Landon Carter, a wrong-way kid that ends up on the right track. Now in his 50's, he is remarrying and while visiting Beaufort, North Carolina, the town he grew up in, Landon remembers his first real love, Jamie Sullivan. She was the last person Landon would ever think to become friends with, let alone fall in love with and never forget. The daughter of a minister, Jamie seemed like the quintessential goody-two-shoes. She cared for her father, volunteered at the orphanage, got good grades, sang in the churc

This is why A Walk to Remember hits so close to home with me. From the time I found out that Jamie had lukemia, I felt so close to her character, as well as that of Landon and her father, the two people who seemed to care the most about her. My sympathy for her came from the experiences I had dealing with my mother's cancer. I remember at least three points in the novel in which I had to put it down because I was literally crying, not just getting teary-eyed, but actually choking on real tears. When Jamie spoke of faith, I found an odd sense of comfort in her words and could almost feel her hand on my shoulder as she whispered words of her untainted beliefs. It brought hope to me in reguards to my mother's illness, though so many years later. Still, it brought back the old unanswerable questions of "Why would God want his children to suffer?" and "Why would God do this to such a good person?". That said, those questions took a back seat to the overwhelming positivity I got out of A Walk to Remember. Jamie is an outstanding symbol of goodness, naivety and strength while Landon is a person with true character who comes of age and becomes a man, goals set and faith found.

Nicholas Sparks has a way of turning your emotions into silly putty, pulling them and stretching them and manipulating them to truly gain a closeness for the characters and

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