A Description of Plot Used in Nicholas Sparks' Novel The

A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL THE

NOTEBOOK

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JOELFI SAKTI PRAWIRA

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UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA

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ABSTRACT A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. There are many elements that can create a novel, one of them is plot. Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. Plot is known as the foundation of a novel or story, around which the characters and settings are built. The writer has an interest to describe the plot that used in a novel written by Nicholas Sparks that has the best story and plot, entitled The Notebook. It is tells about a love story of Noah who continuously read a story from his notebook about his love journey with his wife, Allie, who has alzeimer. In describing this novel the writer uses library research by qualitative description method.

Keyword : Plot, Conflict, Structure

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ABSTRAK Novel adalah karya fiksi naratif yang relatif panjang, biasanya ditulis dalam bentuk prosa, dan yang biasanya diterbitkan sebagai buku. Ada banyak elemen yang bisa membuat novel, salah satunya adalah plot. Plot adalah bentuk karya literatur yang digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan kejadian kejadianyang membentuk sebuah cerita. Plot dikenal sebagai landasan sebuah novel atau cerita, dimana tokoh dan latar dibentuk. Penulis tertarik untuk mendeskripsikan plot yang digunakan didalam novel yang ditulis oleh Nicholas Sparks yang memiliki cerita dan plot terbaik, berjudul The Notebook. Novel ini menceritakan tentang kisah cinta Noah yang secara terus-meerus menceritakan perjalanan cintanya melalui buku catatannya kepada istrinya, Allie, yang memiliki ingatan jangka panjang. Dalam mendeskripsikan novel ini penulis menggunakanmetode pencarian pustaka dengan pengumpulan deskripsi. Kata Kunci : Alur, Konflik, Struktur.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Alhamdulillahi rabil 'alamin, I expresses my highest gratitude to Allah SWT for love, blessing, health, opportunity, and mercy to complete this paper. This paper entitled “A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’

NOVEL THE NOTEBOOK” is submitted as the one of the requirements to get

Diploma III certificate from English Study Program in Faculty of Culture Study,

University of Sumatera Utara.

I presents my sincere appreciation to :

1. Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S as the dean of Faculty of Culture Study,

University of Sumatera Utara,

2. Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis, M.Hum as the Head of English Diploma

Study Program. Also this paper would not have been possible without the

help, support,suggestion, guidance, correction and patience of my advisor

3. Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum as My Supervisor for his advice,

supervision, and crucial contribution in the improvement of the result of this

paper.

4. The Lecturers in English Diploma III for all the knowledge, help, and

support.

5. My Parents Sri Duluaida and Johan Arifin Prawira, thankyou for the

love, prayers, and bless.

6. All of my friends for help, support, joy and laughter.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ...... i

ABSTRACT ...... ii

ABSTRAK ...... iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...... v

TABLE OF CONTENTS ...... vi

1. INTRODUCTION ...... 1

1.1 Background of the study ...... 1

1.2 Problem of the study ...... 3

1.3 Objective of the study ...... 3

1.4 Scope of the study ...... 3

1.5 Significance of the study ...... 4

1.6 Method of the study ...... 4

2. REVIEW AND RELATED OF LITERATURE ...... 5

2.1 The Novel ...... 5

2.2 The Plot ...... 6

2.3 Kind Of Structure...... 10

2.4 Conflict ...... 13

3. A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL

THE NOTEBOOK ...... 17

3.1 Plot Structure described in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook…………… .. 17

3.2 Conflict found and settled in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook ...... 20

4. CONLUSION AND SUGGESTION ...... 23

4.1 Conclution ...... 23

4.2 Suggestion ...... 24

REFERENCES ......

APPENDIX ......

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the study

Literature is a term use to describe written or spoken material. The term is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction.

According to Robert and Jacobs (1995:2) say that Literature is classified into four genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. In the sense of literary, prose also called fiction, narrative text, or narrative discourse. Fiction is a narrative work that tells something that is imaginary, something that does not exist and happen in the real world. As a work of imaginary, fiction directs various problems of man and humanity, life and living. Fiction tells the various problems of human life in the interactions with the environment and others. Fiction is the result of dialogue, contemplation, and reactions to the environment and the life of the author.

The major forms of literature are novel, poem, drama and short story. In this paper a novel is used as the material of the discussion, which the novel itself belongs to the literary work. Reeve (1785) says that novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. Based from the quotation above, a novel seems as the portrayal of human life and behaviour in reality. On the other words, the novel tends to be the representative of the activity of human

1 real life, which concerns too many things and aspects such as: ambition, feeling, emotion, desire, obstacles in life, problem, etc. Among the genre of literature, novel is one of the prose fiction. Watson (1979:158) says, “Novel is a fictional prose narrative of length, usually with a claim to describe the real.” Novel is a picture of real life and manners of the time in which it was written. The novel has the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. The intrinsic elements are truly seen from the novel. There are five main intrinsic elements, they are: theme, plot, character, setting, and point of view.

According to Fananie (2001:93) says that plot is the construction which is made to read on of a sequence of events that are logically and chronologically related, and caused or experienced by actors. It means an entire series of events contained in the story, caused or experienced by actors. The Novel which deals in this paper are written by Nicholas Spark entitle The Notebook. Nicholas Spark was born December 31, 1965, Omaha, Nebraska. It was sometime after 1995 that

Tolkien gained an unexpected inspiration to start writing The Notebook. Which was a best novel and later turned into a hit movie.

In novel The Notebook, local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at the carnival and they soon fall in love with each others. Allie’s parents do not approve of their romans since Noah belongs to anothrt social class, and they move to New

York with her. Three years later, she meets in jured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. They are going on dates and proposes. Meanwhile Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in newpaper,she feel divided between her first live and her commitment with Lon. The writer is interested in analyzing the plot used in the novel because it can show the sequence of conflict in the novel. The

2 story is about how an old man remains her wife who has senile dementia with memory loss by reads a romance story.

The focus of this analysis is the plot used in this novel. According to

Robert and Jacobs (1995:52) says that the plot is the pattern in which protagonist meets and resolves the conflict, which has been compared to the story’s map, scheme, or blueprint. The plot is based on the interaction of causes and effects as they devolep sequentially or chronologically. That is, the story’s action follow one another in time as the protagonist meets and tries to overcome the forces of opposition. Finally, the research of this paper focuses on the plot used in the novel written by Nicholas Spark entitle The Notebook. This is the background as well as the reason why this paper focus on the analyzing the plot used in this paper.

1.2 Problem of the study

a) How is the plot structure portrayed in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The

Notebook?

b) How is the conflict settled in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook?

1.3 Object of the study

a) To describe the plot structure in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook.

b) To describe the conflict settled in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook.

1.4 Scope of the study

The scope of the study is the plot structure of the novel potrayed in

Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook. Within the paper, the discussion will concentrate on 3 step of plot. The step are exposition, climax and resolution.

1.5 Significance of the study

This study has significances to practical and theoretical significances.

Theoretically, The study aims to make people know more about Comparative

Literary Study, and show that among literary works, which includes novels, that are from the different language and culture, can be compared or contrasted.

Practically, this thesis can be as reference for students who have interest to study about revenge and comparative literature.

1.6 Method of the study

The writer uses qualitative description metheod in doing in this paper.

The primary of data sources is The Notebook novel and the secondary of data sources are books and internet. Method of the description in this paper is a library research. The writer collects some data to support the description, finding the related data to the research then narrowing the collecting data of the library research to the related 4 element which are about plot. The data in the words, texts and quotations from. The writer reads and notes that data then selects to be interpreted. Having understood the story of the novel, the writer can analyze the plot of the novel and make the conclusion.

2. REVIEW LITERATURE

2.1 Novel

Novel is a length story which tells about life experience of human being.

It can be made base on imagination. The imagination is not really life experience, it is impossible in real life. Rene (1985) says that novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it is written. Based from the quotation above, a novel seems as the portrayal of human life and behaviour in reality. On the other words, the novel tends to be the representative of the activity of human real life, which concerns too many things and aspects such as: ambition, feeling, emotion, desire, obstacles in life, problem, etc. Watson (1979:3) says that novel is the name of a literary kind, and there is a story to tell about how, over the centuries, its substance has widened and its conventions changed.

So it means novel is literary work, narrate about the life in centuries ago.

Of course, novel is a way to send message in social, such as in novel find character that plays role hero and felon. Hero in novel will be success but not felon will be loser. From this message the reader can get inspiration that hero is good but felon is bad.

Reading a novel can help reader to think the conversation of character, it makes the imagination improved became more criticism. Because the reader thinks what thing is good to support. In the beginning of novel is not interesting in the ending, because it takes the attention the reader to read the whole story. Watson (1979:3-

4) says that novel is a way of learning about how things were or arecognitive

5 instrument; and those who distrust stories as evidence should consider how often in conversation we use them to make points or answer questions. Novel is usually written in the past tense because the author tells story that happens in the past, the author imagine the story firstly then interpret it in writing so the imagination first then writing in the past tense. In addition novel is written in past tense because it is a heritage of senior novelist, like saying of Watson (1979:6-9) says that why most novels are mainly composed in the past tense? And why is it that when readers or critics recount the plot of a novel, or any part of one, they commonly translate it into the present? The simplest answer to these questions is that we conventionally associate past tense with telling a story, and present tense with analysis. In ordinary conversation, it is worth nothing, anecdotes are usually in the past tense, even when they are offered as fictitious.

2.2 Plot

Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of story. These events relate to each other in a pattern of sequence.

The structure of novel depends on the organization of events in the plot of the story.

According to E.M. Foster in Aspects of Novel (1972), a plot or story is a

“narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence,” whereas a plot organize the events according to a “sense of causality”. According to Kralel (1988:15), “plot is the sequence of action and incidents which make up a story”. Plot develops a series of complication or intensification of the conflict that leads to a moment of

6 great tension. Author uses techniques in writing plot to make the story interesting or to add a twist and turn.

There are four types regarding to plot:

1. Suspense is a literary device that authors use to keep their readers interest alive throughout the work. It is a feeling of anticipation that something risky or dangerous is about to happen.

2. Flashback is interruptions that writer do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.

3. Telescoping is a matter of economy. The author can’t describe every motion of the character or event during the time the story cover.

4. Shadowing is a the outcome of a conflict is often hinted at or

“foreshadowed” before the climax and resolution. These clues are usually very subtle; you don’t realize they are foreshadowing clues until you’ve finished the story. Plot refers to the series of events that give a story its meaning and effect. In most stories, these events arise out of conflict experienced by the main character.

The conflict may come from something external. As the character makes choices and tries to resolve the problem, the story’s action is shaped and plot chronologically, with the firs event followed by the second, third, and so on, like beads on string. However, many stories are told with flashback techniques in which plot events from earlier times interrupt the story’s current events. To be a plot, the events must be processed and made creatively so that the results of processing and making itself is something beautiful and interesting, particularly in

7 relation to the relevant works of fiction as a whole. The types of grooves which can be divided into four types, the following explanation:

1. Progressive Plot or Dramatic. This is also a chronological structure, which first establishes the setting and conflict, then follows the rising action thought to a climax (the peak of the action and turning point), and concludes with a denouement (a wrapping up of loose ends).

2. Episodic Plot: This is also a chronological structure, but it consists of a series of loosely related incidents, usually of chapter length, tied together by a common theme and character. Episodic plots work best when the writer wishes to explore the personalities of the characters, the nature of their existence, and the flavor of an era.

3. Parallel Plot: The writer weaves two or more dramatic plots that are usually linked by a common character and similar theme. 4. Flashback: This structure conveys information about events that occurred earlier. It permits authors to begin the story in the midst of the action but later fill in the background for full understanding of the present events. Flashback can occur more than once and different parts of story.

According to Nurgiyantoro (1998:152-156) differentiates this plot in three majorities. They are plot of fortune, plot of character, and plot of thought.

Plot of fortune characters connects to a story that tells about the luck and the fortune of the main character’s destiny in a novel. He divided this plot in to six kinds, they are: a) Action plot is the plot which is arranged in conflict and the resolution b) Platonic plot is the plot which ends with sadness and makes the

8 reader feel empathy. c) Tragic plot is the plot which makes the reader feel affected because the main character who does not know about the problem that comes and had faced. d) Punitive plot is the plot which ends with the failure of the main character that cannot attract the reader’s sympathy. e) Sentimental plot is the plot which the main character gets the victory after facing the problem. f) Admiration plot is the opposite of tragic plot which makes the reader admire because the main character can overcome the problem at the end. Plot of character refers to the importance of the character which becomes the focus of attention.

Plot of character is more attentive with the characters condition that the events that related to the plot. Plot of thought tells something that will become a way for the readers to think about willingness, feelings, kinds of obsession and the other things that can be mentioned as the problems of human life generally. Plot must be effective and it includes a sequence of incidents that bear a significance causal relationship to each other. Causality is an important feature of realistic fictional plot because something happens because of a result something else. In other words, it’s what mostly happened in the story or novel or what the story’s general theme is based on, such as the mood, characters, setting, and conflicts occurring in a story. An intricate, complicated plot is known as an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot can have multiple inferences, such as with songs the balled tradition. When we talk about plot, it means that we talk about the action or events which usually resolved at the end of the story. The plot as the events are displayed in a not simple story, because the author sets the events was based on a causal connection. The plot is basically sequences of events in logical and chronological relation are interrelated and are caused or experienced by the

9 characters. Plot is known for having a narrative structure and is divided into five parts. The five parts are: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

2.3 Kinds of Structure Plot

2.3.1 Exposition

The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed. The exposition is the introduction to the characters and setting of the story. The exposition hooks the reader, providing enough interest and information to the intended audience to encourage the reader to continue reading. Every story must have a beginning, the start, or exposition, is where the characters and setting are established. During this part of novel, the conflict or main problem is also introduced.

2.3.2 Rising Action

This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed (events between the introduction and climax). The rising action introduces the conflict or problem in the story. This part of the plot tells us what it is that the main character or protagonist is facing. During the rising action, the main character struggles with this conflict or problem. The conflict may be: a) Character versus character: the problem the protagonist faces is one involving another character b) Character versus society: the protagonist faces a problem involving something in the society in which they live (example: racism) c) Character versus self: the character has some internal struggle inside themselves d) Character versus nature: the protagonist struggles with some natural

10 force (tornado, harsh climate, etc.) After the characters and main problem have been established, the main problem or conflict is dealt with by some kind of action. In this part of the story, the main character is in crisis. This is the place for tension and excitement. The complication can arise through a character’s conflict with society, nature, fate, or a number of themes. In this part of the story the main character is aware a conflict has arisen and takes some kind os step to battle this crisis.

2.3.3 Climax

The climax is the high point of the story, where a culmination of events creates the peak of the conflict. The climax usually features the most conflict and struggle, and usually reveals any secrets or missing points in the story.

Alternatively, an anti-climax may occur, in which an expectedly difficult event is revealed to be incredibly easy or of paltry importance. Critics may also label the falling action as an anti-climax, or anti-climactic. The climax isn't always the most important scene in a story. In many stories, it is the last sentence, with no successive falling action or resolution.

2.3.4 Falling Action

The falling action is the series of events which take place after the climax; it is where the protagonist must react to the changes that occur during the climax of the story. The events and complications begin to resolve them. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not

(events between climax and denouement). Following the climax, the story begins to slowly wind down. Falling action, one of the two final story elements, shows

11 the result of the actions or decisions the character has made. This eventually leads to the final part of the novel, this crisis resolution.

2.3.5 Resolution

The part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict. The resolution, also often called denoument, which is French for “to untie” or “unraveling”, is the conclusion of the story. Here, the conflicts are resolved, all lose ends are tied up, and the story concludes with either a happy or sad ending. In a story, the events maybe rise and fall repeatedly and actually a plot develops a series of complications or intensification of the conflict that leads to a moment of great tension. Sometimes the author will use some techniques in writing the plot to make the story more interesting or to add a twist or turn.

Foreshadowing is where the author may hint at what might happen in the future. Flashback is where the author might tell us something that has happened in the past to help explain the present. Irony is when the author has something happen in the story that is the opposite of what the reader expects. Plot can be divided into two types, they are closed and open. This division is based on the way how an author presents the resolution of his story, they are: 1) Closed plot: in this type of the plot the end of the story is clear because the author presents a definite resolution of conflict. Most narrative works use closed plot, because the end of the story is clear, readers do not have to think a lot about it. 2) Open plot: this type of plot has little or no resolution at all. The author, however, creates some clues in the story that will lead his readers to conclude the resolution of the

12 story. “ Crane in his work, The Concept of Plot states that any novel or drama represents a composite of three elements: action, character, and thought. Plot is, thus, the particular synthesis of the three elements.

2.4 Conflict

Conflict can be defined in many ways and can be considered as an expression of hostility, negative attitudes, antagonism, aggression, rivalry and misunderstanding. It is also associated with situations that involve contradictory or irreconcilable interests between two opposing groups. A few definitions of conflict are as given below :

Mary Parker Follett simply defines conflict as, "the appearance of difference, difference of opinions, of interests".

Thomas Chung and Rich Megginson define conflict as, "the struggle between incompatible or struggling needs, wishes, ideas, interests or people.

Conflict arises when individuals or groups encounter goals that both parties cannot obtain satisfactorily".

According to David L. Austin (1972), "It can be defined as a disagreement between two or more individuals or groups, with each individual or group trying to gain acceptance of its view or objectives over others".

Louis R. Pondy (1938-1987) has given a very comprehensive definition of conflict. According to him the term conflict is used in four ways in the literature to describe :

Conflict can take on any of several different forms in an organization. It can occur within an employee, between individuals or groups and across organizations. Thus, the different types of conflicts are: intrapersonal, interpersonal, intergroup and interorganizational conflict. It is important to note that the prefix intra means "within", whereas inter means "between".

According to M. Nicholson: Rationality and the Analysis of International

Conflict, (1992:11) “A conflict exists when two people wish to carry out acts which are mutually inconsistent. They may both want to do the same thing, such as eat the same apple, or they may want to do different things where the different things are mutually incompatible, such as when they both want to stay together but one wants to go to the cinema and the other to stay at home. A conflict is resolved when some mutually compatible set of actions is worked out. The definition of conflict can be extended from individuals to groups (such as states or nations) and more than two parties can be involved in the conflict. The principles remain the same."

Friction or Conflict is a necessary element of fictional literature. It is defined as the problem in any piece of literature and is often classified according to the nature of the protagonist or antagonist, as follows:

2.4.1 Character versus Self (Person versus Character)

Character vs. Self is when the central conflict of a story is internal to the main character and is often portrayed as a conflict between the characters.

Otherwise describes as an internal conflict in which a character struggles with himself. Such as a desire, or moral dilemma.

2.4.2 Character versus Character

Character vs. Character is when, in a novel, there is a conflict of two forms of like beings. An example is the hero's conflicts with the central villain of a work, which may play a large role in the plot and contribute to the development of both characters. There are usually several arguments/disagreements before the climax is reached. The conflict is external. person vs. Person can usually be expressed by, for example, when a child is being ridiculed by a bully. An example is the conflict between Judah and Messala in Ben-Hur it can be any form of character.

2.4.4 Character versus Society

Character vs. Society is a theme in fiction in which a main character's, or group of main characters', main source of conflict is social traditions or concepts.

In this sense, the two parties are: (a) the protagonist(s) or (b) the society of which the protagonist(s) are included. Society itself is often looked at as single character, just as an opposing party would be looked at in a Character vs. Character conflict.

Character vs. Society conflict gives the playwright an opportunity to comment on positive/negative aspects of a whole?

2.4.5 Character versus Nature

Character vs. Nature is the theme in literature that places a character against forces of nature. Many disaster films focus on this theme, which is predominant within many survival stories. It is also strong in stories about struggling for survival in remote locales, such as the novel Hatchet or Jack

London's short story "To Build a Fire". Also A Separate Peace is a good example

15 with Leper not wanting to jump out of the tree. Some are not so remote such as

Banner in the Sky.

2.4.6 Character versus Supernatural

Character vs. a spirit. This could be ghosts, monsters, demons, etc. One common example is the movie Ghostbusters.

3. A DESCRIPTION OF PLOT USED IN NICHOLAS SPARKS’ NOVEL

THE NOTEBOOK

3.1 Plot Structure described in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook

3.1.1 Exposition

The exposition of this novel begins in a care facility. Duke (Noah’s nickname in care facility), the old Noah has to get permission to read the story from his notebook to fellow resident, Ms. Hamilton who has alzeimer. Ms. Hamilton's health is deteriorating. The story is always the same one, he reads out of his notebook, and which she sometimes remembers that she has heard before, is captivated but can not remember how it turns out. It details the love affair between Noah and Allie, beginning in 1940 in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.

For the first time he sees a beautiful woman is playing with her friends in that town, he falls in love with her. Her name is Allie. She comes from another town, and spending her holiday with her family there. Day by day, they become closer and have a special relationship. They are very happy together.

Everyday he always thinks about Allie, every moment that they ever had is never forgotten. He loves her very much. Loving Allie is something special for him. He likes give surprises to her. He will do everything to make her happy.

“I can remember every moment we were together, and in each of them there was something wonderful. I love you, Allie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.” He guided the canoe toward some trees near the bank. “Close your eyes,” he whispered, and Allie did, bringing her hands to her face. “Okay, now

17 you can open them.” They sat in the middle of a small lake fed by the waters of Brices Creek. (Sparks 1996:102)

3.1.2 Climax

Their relationship was improbable because of their differing social classes and outlooks which led to their relationship being characterized by constant arguments with each other out of their passion. While Noah was a carefree and working class local who had a 40-cent/hour job at a lumber yard, Allie was from a privileged family, her mother who grew up in Seabrook Island and where they were staying only for the summer. Noah writes Allie 365 letters and she never gets them.

For a few years, Alie gets a job. She works at the hospital downtown as a nurse. There, she meets Lon Hommond Jr, a lawyer. He loves her, but she never care to him and still remembers Noah. Lon has always tried to approach her with many ways, and she starts to like him. She loves him, and loves Noah too. But something in her makes her return to Noah to be sure she is not making a mistake and hurting anyone.

“The answer was that I wanted two things. First I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have. 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 doesn’t make me feel the same way you do, but I care for him, and this wouldn’t be fair to him. I love you deeply. You are, and always have been, my dream.” (Sparks 1996:140)

She gets Alzheimer disease. It makes her difficult to remember anything about her memories. She is so sad about that. She can not remember who she is, and

18 about her memories with Noah, her husband. But deepest in her heart, she always loves him until forever.

”The doctor says,”It is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.”

(Sparks 1996:167)

She really needs Noah to be beside her, accompanies her days, and keeps her.

Noah is very sad to know about her disease. He always tries to make her comfortable and remember him. He is very loyal waiting for her to remind all about their memories.ecomes engaged to him.

3.1.3 Resolution

Noah restores the house him and Allie went to one night out of 'labor of love'. Seven years pass and Allie meets and falls in love with a wealthy soldier

Lon. When seeing Noah's picture in the paper,

Allie is a permanent establishment to defend Noah to her mother. She never feels love so much to other men, as she feels to Noah. Her mother does not like him at all because between Allie and Noah have many diffrences. Her mother always tries to separated them. But even so, she loves Allie so much, so does

Allie.

Sparks (1996:136) says,”Anne whispered,”Do you love him?” “Yes, I do,”

Allie answered softly, “very much.” “Do you love Lon?” “Yes, I do. I love him, too.

Dearly, but in a different way. He doesn’t make me feel the way Noah does.” Allie shook her head. “No, this is up to me.” Allie nodded and watched her doughter for a moment, wondering. Finally she stood, went around the table, leaned over, and kissed her doughter on the cheek.

Allie is drawn back to him. They spent a few days together and she doesn't want to leave. Allie has to choose between her fiancé and Noah.

3.2 Conflict found and settled in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Notebook

3.2.1 Character versus Self

In Notebook Novel, it tells about Noah’s struggles in many sides of his life.

He has to fight for his love, Allie. He has to lose Allie and know that she has a fiancé and will get married soon.

Noah trying to forget Allie. But, he can not do that. He refuse the reality that he can not get her back. He gets frustrated and sells his dream house.

3.2.2 Character versus Character

Besides Noah’s problem between himself, he also has problem between

Allie’s parent. He can not has an agreement from her parents because of their different social status. Allie’s parent brings her far from Noah to end their relationship.

After Allie lives far from Noah, he always send her a letter day by day in one year. But, Allie never gets even one of them because her mother keeps them all from Allie.

3.2.3 Character versus Society

After describing the characters in Nicholas Sparks’ novel “The Notebook”, conflict happened because of unfulfilled desire upon choices available. Not all choices are made into real for man who has a limited power to find all what he or she wants. 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.

There is no conflict found with nature or supernatural in this novel.the conflict only happen with self, character, and society.

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

21 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. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

4.1 Conclusion

1. The plot of this novel has three forms, the first is the exposition. The

introduction to the characters and setting of the story. The exposition

hooks the reader, providing enough interest and information to the

intended audience to encourage the reader to continue reading. In this

novel, the exposition is beginning with the narrator who tells the story

about his life and her wife who has alzeimer. He tells about the first time

they were met. The second, The Climax. The high point of the story,

where a culmination of events creates the peak of the conflict. The

climax usually features the most conflict and struggle, and usually

reveals any secrets or missing points in the story. In this paper, the

climax is when they separated by Allie’s parent, and then she has a

fiancé to forget Noah. The third is the resolution, the conclusion of the

story. Here, the conflicts are resolved, and the story concludes with

either a happy or sad ending. The resolution in this paper is when they

are meet again and start living together. Allie sees Noah’s advertisement

in newspaper, he would like to sell their dream house. Then, Allie

decides to comeback to Noah and end up her relationship with her

fiancé.

2. The conflict in this novel only happens in 3 kinds of conflict, The first is

Character versus Self, Noah and himself. He gets frustrated because he

feels broke and disappoint of himself because he thinks that he can not

23 gets Allie back known that Allie has a fiancé. The second is The

Character versus Character, Noah and Aliie’s parent. The struggle in

Noah’s life is caused by Allie’s parent who always trying to separate

him with Allie. The third is Character versus Society, Noah and his

different social status with Allie makes their relationship has many

struggles.

The conflict settled because 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.

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 example to be one that tells life problem experienced by characters or sociaty in common. Because of that this novel is good enough to tell how people must face the life when problems or conflicts happen. It describes what has happened in the past to be known at present so the readers may anticipate the future. So, the writer of this paper suggested that it is good to be analysed accademically or personally.

The describe if this paper is only a part from many possibilities that can be studied scientifically. This paper can be applied as reference for further study for those who want to deal with this novel or novels in general. With great

24 confidence, the writer of this paper wants to say that literature is a summary of life that needs learning wisely and seriously. This idea is admittedly represented in the novel The Notebook

The writer also realizes her limited knowledge and material in finishing this paper.The writer would be glad to invite the readers to give correction, suggestion, or any other input for the weakness of this writing in order to become a fabulous writing.

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Appendix

Biography

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the

United States alone.

Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 and 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),

The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), and Two by Two (2016) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My

Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twentieth novel, Every Breath, was published on October 16, 2018.

Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The

Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The

Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars.

In 2012, Sparks and his publishing agent and creative partner Theresa Park, launched Nicholas Sparks Productions, with Park as President of Production. A film version of The Guardian is currently in development, as is a film based on

Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers’s friendship with Chicago Bears teammate

Brian Piccolo.

Sparks lives in North Carolina. 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. He co-founded The Epiphany School in

New Bern, North Carolina in 2006. 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. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in

28 the 4 x400 meter, in New York. The record still stands. Click to watch the

Runner’s World video with Nicholas.

The Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to improving cultural and international understanding through global education experiences for students of all ages was launched in 2011. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of the Sparks family, more than $15 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because the Sparks family covers all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.

Summary

The Notebook is a 1996 novel by Nicholas Sparks. The story centers on the relationship between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson. Spanning over five decades, their love endures an uncertain beginning, the onset and conclusion of

World War II, the death of one child, and Allie’s eventual diagnosis of

Alzheimer’s disease.

The novel is framed by the titular notebook. The story that the reader engages with is the same one that an elderly Noah reads to Allie in the Creekside

Assistance Living Facility when they are in their eighties. Allie does not know who Noah is, only that he comes to her room every day and reads to her. Each night, she forgets who he is and what he has read to her. Noah loves her and enjoys his time with her but also holds out hope that the story will restore her memories and bring her back to him.

The teenage Allie and Noah meet one summer in the 1930s, in the small town of New Bern, North Carolina. They fall in love and promise that they will always be together. But at the end of the summer, Allie leaves with her family, and Noah does not hear from her again for fourteen years. He writes to her every month, but his letters receive no reply. Allie will later learn that Noah wrote to her but that her mother intercepted the letters and hid them. Allie’s family is part of the southern aristocracy, and her parents do not believe that the lower-class Noah deserves their daughter.

After fourteen years, Allie returns to New Bern to tell Noah that she is engaged to a good, charming, handsome attorney named Lon Hammond. But she and Lon do not have a passionate relationship. Allie and Noah quickly fall in love again. Allie’s mother figures out why her daughter is in New Bern and visits them at Noah’s house. She gives Allie the letters she hid and tells her to make whatever decision is best for her. That is where Noah ends his written account of their story and the novel returns to present day.

In the final chapter, Noah reveals the circumstances of Allie’s diagnosis and relates a summary of their life together after she left Lon and came to New Bern to be with him. She has since become a famous painter, and they traveled the world and had five children together, with four surviving.

Allie remembers who Noah is after he finishes reading, and understands that they are the characters in the story from the notebook. But her dementia quickly returns, and she forgets, shouting for help and sending Noah out of her room.

Days later, Noah has a stroke that puts him in the hospital for two weeks and

30 paralyses the right side of his body. When he returns to Creekside, he visits Allie on the night of their forty-ninth anniversary. She opens her eyes and calls him by name, then kisses him. As the novel ends, Noah says that they are going to heaven together, at the same moment.