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Nicholas Sparks Research Paper

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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 …show more content…

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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