Katie Holleran
Mr. Davis
LNG 322
15 April 2015
Nicholas Sparks “All of his [Nicholas Sparks] books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 97 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including 65 million copies in the United States alone” (Nicholas Sparks). Nicholas Sparks has a very distinct writing style that make very popular romance novels; ten of Nicholas Sparks’ novels have been turned into films, with each of them becoming very popular. Sparks’ writing is easy to understand, but at the same time very unique. His novels are “ famous for being romantic and tender, and for having bittersweet endings” (Gale Student Resources in Context).
Nicholas Sparks’ writing style is one of the most unique, in the romance novel department. Teenagers and women are drawn into his books. A journalist named Kathy Harris wrote, “What sets Sparks apart from harley romance scene is the earnest of his writing…” (Gale Student Resources in Context). Sparks has written
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Message in a Bottle was about a man who writes passionate letters, and puts them in bottles for someone to find. A single mother finds these letters and goes on a search to find who sent them. She realizes when she finds the man that he is a widow, and this is their chance at love. This story was based on Nicholas Sparks’ parents’ relationship. When they both passed away at a young age, he turned to writing and wrote Message in a Bottle. He also wrote The Rescue, which was based on the events that surrounded a disappearance of a little four year old boy with disabilities. Sparks witnessed the whole thing, and the effect loosing her child had on the mother. In the book, Nicholas Sparks wrote about the effect of the mother trying to find her little boy in the book. Critics who have read Sparks’ novels call him “a master in the dramatic fiction genre”
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Stephen King is a contemporary writer who has written many books in his lifetime. In his novel Misery, he discusses the consequences or bad sides of being famous. This normal average man, other than being a world famous author, acts as a regular individual in his daily life. In Stephen King’s Misery, King uses Paul Sheldon, as a doppelganger of himself to describe the horrors of being a famous person in the worst situation, showing readers that it is not so bad to be a regular person.
I was born in 1997 to David Brain Sparks and Heather Jones in Morganton North Carolina. My full name is Garrett Dawson Sparks. For as long as I can remember I have had a fascination with the drums. I used to get yelled at all the time for setting in the kitchen and beating on pots and pans. I don’t think my parents liked my music, but it didn’t make me scale back.
There was once a little town called Sparksville just inside the state lines of Wisconsin. It was a small town, unknown to basically everyone who didn’t live in Wisconsin. The people who lived in the town were nice to strangers, for not to many people came through very often, and they also had amazing hospitality. So amazing in fact the hotels would let complete strangers stay for free as long as they spread good news to their friends about the town. There was only one school in town for there were only about 432 residents living in Sparksville at the time, but the school was decently sized for a small town. The students were all grade A students, the teachers rarely often had problems with any of the students as they were raised with generous manners. Since Sparksville was such a small town the school didn’t offer very many sports other than Hockey, Football, and Basketball.
“All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story” said Nicholas sparks who is known for many romance novels. In his writing he uses experiences and people that he is inspired by and puts them in a form of novel that catches the audience's attention. After taking a look at the life and writing of Nicholas Sparks, it is apparent that this writer deserves appreciation as a profound American author. With challenges and achievements Nicholas Sparks has written some of the best romance novels.
As the era of literature slowly declines, the expert critiques and praise for literature are lost. Previously, novels were bursting at the seams with metaphors, symbolism, and themes. In current times, “novels” are simply short stories that have been elaborated on with basic plot elements that attempt to make the story more interesting. Instead of having expert critical analysis written about them, they will, most likely, never see that, as recent novels have nothing to analyze. Even books are beginning to collect dust, hidden away and forgotten, attributing to the rise of companies such as Spark Notes. An author deserves to have his work praised, no matter how meager and the masses should have the right to embrace it or to reject it. As
I have now read three very interesting pieces, “Boys” by Rick Moody, “Lust” by Susan Minot and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid. In “Boys” there's a stream of consciousness type of style and an unbiased or serious tone. In “Lust” there's a minimalist style and a loneliness type of tone. In “Girl” there is a prose poem kind of style and a commanding type of tone.
Translated into 35 different languages and adapted into a 1984 Hollywood classic, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (1979) enjoys a cult following worldwide. The book deeply influenced young adult fantasy fiction in Germany by its story of a timid, overweight boy whose becomes a hero by being an avid reader and a maker of stories. The Neverending Story is descendent of the Romantic Movement; a protagonist as a reader who travels between reality and fantasy and awakens his inner poet. Two decades later, two critically acclaimed books took and transformed Ende’s story: Inkheart (2003) by Cornelia Funke and The City of Dreaming Books (2006) by Walter Moers. These three books describe a conflict between a reader and book-hating antagonists and
Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska (Jessica Estremera). He was the second of three children born to Patrick Sparks, a college professor, and his wife Jill. Nicholas spent the early part of his childhood moving around with his family as his father finished up his graduate work (Biography Channel website). "Because my father was a student until I was 9 years old and my mother didn't work, we weren't exactly living the high life when I was little. I grew up on powdered milk and ate tons of potatoes, though to be honest, I never noticed how poor we really were until I was old enough to take an honest appraisal of things. Even then, it didn't matter. For the most part, I had a wonderful childhood
Nicholas Sparks’ tragic love story The Notebook is a touching story about two people and their eternal passion of true love which is beautifully portrayed by Nick Cassavetes in the film. Pathos is used in the film to draw members of the audience to the characters and influence them to feel passionate towards the characters. Cassavetes does this by making the movie more dramatic than the book. The director effectively uses pathos to add drama in The Notebook which makes the movie’s audience more emotionally connected to the story. The plot is evidently more climatic as the main events are exaggerated in the film. The feel of the overall screenplay is distinctive than the novel. The characters also play
When everything started to fall into place tragedy hit his family when his father was killed in a car accident. From this Sparks was able use his feelings within his writings and from this he wrote Message in a Bottle which was one of his first big novels that then later was made into a movie. Sparks is a writer many take for granted because it seems that many of his novels are all similar. However, this is very false. While his books follow romantic story lines each one is different and has a focus on a different type of relationship whether it focus’ more on family, friends, or romance.
When we think of romance novels, one's first thought might be of the kind we see at the newsstand while waiting to check out at the grocery store. Visions of a white knight like Fabio whisking away the fair damsel in distress. Romance novels for the young adult are appealing because many romantic symbols relate directly to what they're experiencing both physically and emotionally in their lives; that of youthfulness and hope.
Nicholas Sparks is an American writer and has a strong stand in the romance fiction genre of literature. When Nicholas
What is reality? Did the past you remember actually happen? Can you exist in two realities at once? Are you who you think you are? Through his work, science fiction author Philip K. Dick implies that we will all be asking such questions soon. For Dick, reality is just one of his layers. All of his novels combined together accurately predicted the world we are in now.
Firstly romantic element in the novel is mix of literary forms and did not followed literary rules. Secondly, it is strange, imaginative,