The Wedding

The novel "The Wedding" by Nicholas Sparks is a sequel to the love story, The Notebook. The characters in this novel are facing pretty much one big problem. The setting in this story is taken place in the year 2003 in a little place called New Bern, where the lives of the Lewis family would change in many ways. Wilson and Jane Lewis; a married couple for many years, are the main characters in this novel. They are facing a very difficult time in their lives.

It seems as if Jane has fallen out of love with Wilson. Wilson is the kind of guy who spends far too much time at work. He knows he should be spending more time at home, but just never could find the time to do so. During the course of their life, they had kids and did everything a normal family does, although during that time Jane and Wilson had grown apart. Their growing apart was pretty much all Wilson's fault, he loved Jane dearly, but he could not find the time and way to show it to her anymore. He finally came to a realization that this was happening to him, and new he needed to do something about it. Wilson made many trips to Jane's father, Noah Calhoun. He always was inspired by Noah and Allie's long life together, and new he would know just what to do. It took many trips to Noah to finally start getting his marriage back on track. It was easy getting Jane to fall back in love with him, in fact she was very close to leaving him, but he managed to make her stay.

I defiantly think that the characters problems they are facing are believable. Trouble with marriage happens all of the time. Their actions are also believable. Anyone would go to any measures to get there marriage back on track and not loose the one they love. Wilson changes tremendously throughout this novel. He realizes everything that he has and if he didn't change he would have lost everything. Jane also changes because she falls back in love with Wilson. Wilson learned that sometimes you have to work hard to keep what you have, and also to never take anything for granite, and I think Jane pretty much learned the same lesson.

The author uses the literary element dialogue by showing conversations between many people to show what was going on throughout the story. Also and epiphany is used in the story. Wilson has an epiphany when talking to Noah about his wife, and all he could loose. He finally realizes what he needs to do to keep the love of his