Summary: Tyler and Cameron were working out on the rowing machines when Divya came up to them, showing them the latest issue of Harvard's Crimson newspaper. It was talking about the overnight sensation, thefacebook.com created by Mark! As Divya continued to read the paper aloud, Tyler grew more and more upset. This whole "facebook" site was definitely gaining popularity and the similarities between their Harvard Connection site that was yet to be running and "thefacebook.com" seemed more than coincidental. "theft" is the word tyler used. Mark stole their idea! In the Crimson, he bragged that he doesn't know why it took Harvard so long to make a site like facebook because he did it in a week. Mind you, Mark put off programming The Harvard Connection for Divya, Tyler, and Cameron for 2 months, saying he was busy with school and other projects, but to Tyler, that was all a lie. He had led them on for 2 months just so steal their ideas and create his own website. They felt like this was completely unfair, but there was no contract, no paperwork or anything that prove Mark had used their ideas for his website or that he even did work for them at all. Tyler decided to call his dad, a very powerful businessman, and tell him everything that happened.
Tyler, Divya, and Cameron wrote a letter to Mark telling him how they felt about him launching "thefacebook.com" while he was supposed to be working for their site and that the sites were very similar. Mark responded with a letter explaining that he was initially intrigued by their project, and after their first meeting, he began working on Thefacebook, using none of the same code of The Harvard Connection. Mark and Eduardo decided that Mark's roommates Dustin and Chris could also help with the site, seeing as how they needed all the help they could get.
Tyler, Cameron, and Divya were so upset by Mark's response that they decided to take things to the next level. They met with the president of Harvard, hoping he would make Mark pay some type of consequences. But, to their surprise, he explained that the situation had nothing to do with Harvard itself, that it was a more personal problem that they needed to work out amongst themselves and that there was nothing they could accuse Mark of because he hadn't violated any contract.
The story then switches over to Sean Parker, a bad-boy computer genius known for founding famous sites like Napster and Plaxo that made tons of money. He stumbled across thefacebook.com and he instantly knew that this website was going to be BIG. That was just the kind of project he needed to take it to a higher level. He ended up meeting up with Mark, Eduardo, and Eduardo's girlfriend Kelly. Mark and Sean talked the whole time, as mark was completely fascinated by Sean, he was like God to him. Eduardo had a shady feeling about Sean, even calling him a "snake oil salesman".
Quote: "Eduardo had a feeling- Sean Parker couldn't possibly have been the only one who'd taken notice of their little Web site. It only a matter of time before deep pockets came calling, pockets that could afford a bit more than a dinner at a fancy New York restaurant" (Mezrich 150).
Reaction: Although I already know that Facebook has become a phenomenon, I can see how quickly it gained its popularity. I personally dont think that Mark stole ideas from the Harvard Connection because 1.) it hadn't even launched yet 2.) Mark hadn't even done any work on their site at all, all he did was look it over. He actually lost interest in it quickly 3) The harvard connection was supposed to be like a dating site for students at harvard, whereas facebook was just a place to make friends of people that attend harvard and, later on people at other colleges. I think Sean parker might be trying to weasel them out of their creation in a way, because all he's interested in is making money, and he might try to take ownership of the site and be taking advantage of Mark, because he looks up to him.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Accidental Billionaires (pages 50-100)
Summary: So, I left offf talking about Mark's crazy idea to invent "facemash". The were some houses that he wasn't able to hack into, so he snuck into the houses, connected his laptop to one of theirs, and downloaded the pictures he needed. After his intoxication wore off, he planned to go home, drop off his bookbag, and go to the dining hall to get something to eat. But, when he got to his room, he couldn't help but notice his desktop screen was frozen. "And then it dawned on him. The laptop screen was frozen because it was acting as a sever for facemash.com". Mark had emailed the link to facemash to couple of his friends, for them to check out, and those friends emailed it to their friends, and their friends emailed it to their friends, and so on. In under two hours, the site had already logged 22,000 votes and 400 kids had gone onto the site in the past 30mins! The link wasn't supposed to go out like that, he still wanted to tweak a few things, and check the legalities of downloading those pictures. He knew he'd be in big trouble, so he shut down the site.
Divya showed Tyler and Cameron the article in the Crimson (the harvard newspaper) that was written about facemash.com and they became very intrigued. Mark Zuckerburg sounded like the guy they needed in order to fulfill their Harvard Connection site, so they decided to send him an e-mail.
Mark had to attending an ad board meeting, the administration disciplinary organization, made up of deans and student advisors. He had to talk about the little stunt he pulled and was able to weasle his way out of a probation because he seemed like a kid who didn't mean any harm, and his stunt served as a way of pointing out flaws in the harvard defense system for their websites that they needed to improve on.
Tyler and cameron asked Mark if he'd be interested in working on the codes for their site and mark said he would look into it. Well, he thought through it and decided it wasn't worth his time.He was already stressed out with classes and other projects that he didn't even feel like working on the codes. Also, he was trying to launch his own site, thefacebook.com as well. "Well, Mark wondered, if people wanted to go online and check out their friends- couldn't they build a website that offered exactly that? An online community of friends- of pictures, profiles, whatever- that you could click into, visit, browse around" (Mezrich 79).He and Eduardo agreed to go 70% and 30% on the site, if it were to make money. Mark met with Tyler, Cameron, and Divya and explained to them why he didn't have the site up and running by then and they realized, aside from all the excuses he gave, that he wasn't really interested in it.
He went straight home and began the finishing touches to his site. you needed a harvard.edu email in order to log in, and that would make the site more exclusively popular. Eduardo had gotten into Pheonix and offered to send the think to members of the club, since they were more popular and could spread the word to more people. that was the beginning of facebook.
Quote: "Everyone wanted a piece of Mark, but Mark didn't need anyone else. Everything he needed was right in front of him" (Mezrich 96).
Reaction: I think that quote was very inspiring in a way because when someone is successful or really talented, everyone wants a piece of them to help themselves gain something. I like the fact that Mark didn't rely on anyone else to create his website and that he wasn't going to allow other people to use him, because that's something that people do in everyday life and i think its important to be independent and not let people take advantage of you.
Divya showed Tyler and Cameron the article in the Crimson (the harvard newspaper) that was written about facemash.com and they became very intrigued. Mark Zuckerburg sounded like the guy they needed in order to fulfill their Harvard Connection site, so they decided to send him an e-mail.
Mark had to attending an ad board meeting, the administration disciplinary organization, made up of deans and student advisors. He had to talk about the little stunt he pulled and was able to weasle his way out of a probation because he seemed like a kid who didn't mean any harm, and his stunt served as a way of pointing out flaws in the harvard defense system for their websites that they needed to improve on.
Tyler and cameron asked Mark if he'd be interested in working on the codes for their site and mark said he would look into it. Well, he thought through it and decided it wasn't worth his time.He was already stressed out with classes and other projects that he didn't even feel like working on the codes. Also, he was trying to launch his own site, thefacebook.com as well. "Well, Mark wondered, if people wanted to go online and check out their friends- couldn't they build a website that offered exactly that? An online community of friends- of pictures, profiles, whatever- that you could click into, visit, browse around" (Mezrich 79).He and Eduardo agreed to go 70% and 30% on the site, if it were to make money. Mark met with Tyler, Cameron, and Divya and explained to them why he didn't have the site up and running by then and they realized, aside from all the excuses he gave, that he wasn't really interested in it.
He went straight home and began the finishing touches to his site. you needed a harvard.edu email in order to log in, and that would make the site more exclusively popular. Eduardo had gotten into Pheonix and offered to send the think to members of the club, since they were more popular and could spread the word to more people. that was the beginning of facebook.
Quote: "Everyone wanted a piece of Mark, but Mark didn't need anyone else. Everything he needed was right in front of him" (Mezrich 96).
Reaction: I think that quote was very inspiring in a way because when someone is successful or really talented, everyone wants a piece of them to help themselves gain something. I like the fact that Mark didn't rely on anyone else to create his website and that he wasn't going to allow other people to use him, because that's something that people do in everyday life and i think its important to be independent and not let people take advantage of you.
The Accidental Billionaires (pages 1-50)
Summary:
The novel takes place at Harvard University. The speaker starts off by talking about a gentlemen named Eduardo. He spent most of his childhood between upper-middle class communities in Brazil and Miami, before attending Harvard. Eduardo was at one of the "punch parties", a gathering he needed to go to in order to potentially be apart of the infamous Pheonix club. The Pheonix club was part of Hardvard's elite. They were the most popular guys and they got all the girls. There at the punch party, he met an awkward kid with big curly hair named Mark, Mark Zuckerburg. He was a sophomore (as well as Eduardo), and supposedly he was a master hacker. He had created a program called Synapse that for plug-in mp3 players. He made Synapse available as a free download on the web and major companies were calling him about buying his invention. Supposedly, Microsoft had offered Mark between one to two MILLION dollars to go work for them, and he shockingly turned them down.
Mark and Eduardo exchanged friendly conversation. The asked each other which houses they belonged to (Eduardo- Eliot, Mark- Kirkland) and Eduardo then offered Mark to join him at a party that was being held on his floor. They both agreed to go and went with each other.
Eduardo had received the 4th punch invitation letter and this time he had to bring a date with him. This meant he actually had to talk to a girl. Lets just say, girls weren't exactly knocking down doors to be with him. The punches were going to be based on the dates they brought with them, so he had to make sure to find the perfect girl. He walked up to the hottest girl he knew, Marsha, a blonde bombshell, and asked her to attend the event with him. Surprisingly she said yes, most likely because it was about going to a final club dinner, being a part of the Pheonix.
The story then switches over to two identical twins named Tyler and Cameron. They were the typical jocks with a high social status at harvard. They were at experts at crew and they whole lives seemed revolved around rowing. They were also friends with an indian boy named Divya. They were seniors and tyler and cameron were apart of the Porcellian club, another elite at Harvard. It turns out that the boys wanted to create a social website called The Harvard Connection. The only problem was neither of them had the necessary computer background to actually get the site up and running. The was another member of their group named Victor, who was the computer wiz but he left. So now they needed a new programmer. The idea of the Harvard Connection was simpl; It would be a sort of online dating site for students at Harvard. It would be an easy way for guys like Tyler and Cameron, who spent all of their time rowing, eating, and sleeping, to get girls. Popular guys like them, never had time to get girls because they were so busy doing the things that made them popular. They decided to send out word that they were looking for people and victor said he'd give them some names.
Then, Eduardo arrives in a seminar with a big crate that had a blanket over it. He took a seat next to Mark and showed him what was in the crate, A CHICKEN. Apparently, as part of his initiation into Pheonix, he had to carry around a live chicken with him wherever he went and keep it alive and healthy for a week. Suddenly, the chicken started making loud noises and everyone except the professor heard. Eduardo met a girl named Angie at a Pheonix cocktail party the night before. she had a friend named Monica, and Eduardo wanted to set her up with Mark, so they could go on a double-date, and Mark agreed.
Apparently, the girl for Mark had rejected him and he became furious. He started writing on his blog that he wanted to take the pictures from each houses facebook (at harvard, each house had a "facebook" with the pictures of each person that lived there, nothing like the facebook we have today), and compare all the girls to each other, and possibly farm animals, and have people vote on which was hotter. He then began hacking into the databases of all the houses at harvard and downloading all their pictures. The site would be called Facemash.com
Quote: "Maybe grinning as he downed the rest of his Beck's, he spelled out the introduction that would greet everyone who sent to the site when he finally lauched it:
Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes.
Yes, it was going to be fucking beautiful" (Mezrich 49).
Reaction: My reaction to this quote is a little confused. I dont really understand how just because a girl rejected him, he goes crazy and starts hacking each houses "facebooks" and gathers up the idea to compare girls on a site. I already knew from having a facebook of my own that it was created by Mark Zuckerburg, but i never knew the story behind it, or what his initial intentions were. I thought he just randomly thought to create a social site where people from all over the world could communicate, but after reading about "facemash.com", it makes me view him differently, he was kind-of a jerk! I think he could get in a lot of trouble for hacking the facebook pages at harvard. It also makes me thing of the "Boston" pages on facebook, who also compare pictures of people on facebook and declare whos better look, or who's "fresh" or who has the "best body".. its disgusting!
The novel takes place at Harvard University. The speaker starts off by talking about a gentlemen named Eduardo. He spent most of his childhood between upper-middle class communities in Brazil and Miami, before attending Harvard. Eduardo was at one of the "punch parties", a gathering he needed to go to in order to potentially be apart of the infamous Pheonix club. The Pheonix club was part of Hardvard's elite. They were the most popular guys and they got all the girls. There at the punch party, he met an awkward kid with big curly hair named Mark, Mark Zuckerburg. He was a sophomore (as well as Eduardo), and supposedly he was a master hacker. He had created a program called Synapse that for plug-in mp3 players. He made Synapse available as a free download on the web and major companies were calling him about buying his invention. Supposedly, Microsoft had offered Mark between one to two MILLION dollars to go work for them, and he shockingly turned them down.
Mark and Eduardo exchanged friendly conversation. The asked each other which houses they belonged to (Eduardo- Eliot, Mark- Kirkland) and Eduardo then offered Mark to join him at a party that was being held on his floor. They both agreed to go and went with each other.
Eduardo had received the 4th punch invitation letter and this time he had to bring a date with him. This meant he actually had to talk to a girl. Lets just say, girls weren't exactly knocking down doors to be with him. The punches were going to be based on the dates they brought with them, so he had to make sure to find the perfect girl. He walked up to the hottest girl he knew, Marsha, a blonde bombshell, and asked her to attend the event with him. Surprisingly she said yes, most likely because it was about going to a final club dinner, being a part of the Pheonix.
The story then switches over to two identical twins named Tyler and Cameron. They were the typical jocks with a high social status at harvard. They were at experts at crew and they whole lives seemed revolved around rowing. They were also friends with an indian boy named Divya. They were seniors and tyler and cameron were apart of the Porcellian club, another elite at Harvard. It turns out that the boys wanted to create a social website called The Harvard Connection. The only problem was neither of them had the necessary computer background to actually get the site up and running. The was another member of their group named Victor, who was the computer wiz but he left. So now they needed a new programmer. The idea of the Harvard Connection was simpl; It would be a sort of online dating site for students at Harvard. It would be an easy way for guys like Tyler and Cameron, who spent all of their time rowing, eating, and sleeping, to get girls. Popular guys like them, never had time to get girls because they were so busy doing the things that made them popular. They decided to send out word that they were looking for people and victor said he'd give them some names.
Then, Eduardo arrives in a seminar with a big crate that had a blanket over it. He took a seat next to Mark and showed him what was in the crate, A CHICKEN. Apparently, as part of his initiation into Pheonix, he had to carry around a live chicken with him wherever he went and keep it alive and healthy for a week. Suddenly, the chicken started making loud noises and everyone except the professor heard. Eduardo met a girl named Angie at a Pheonix cocktail party the night before. she had a friend named Monica, and Eduardo wanted to set her up with Mark, so they could go on a double-date, and Mark agreed.
Apparently, the girl for Mark had rejected him and he became furious. He started writing on his blog that he wanted to take the pictures from each houses facebook (at harvard, each house had a "facebook" with the pictures of each person that lived there, nothing like the facebook we have today), and compare all the girls to each other, and possibly farm animals, and have people vote on which was hotter. He then began hacking into the databases of all the houses at harvard and downloading all their pictures. The site would be called Facemash.com
Quote: "Maybe grinning as he downed the rest of his Beck's, he spelled out the introduction that would greet everyone who sent to the site when he finally lauched it:
Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes.
Yes, it was going to be fucking beautiful" (Mezrich 49).
Reaction: My reaction to this quote is a little confused. I dont really understand how just because a girl rejected him, he goes crazy and starts hacking each houses "facebooks" and gathers up the idea to compare girls on a site. I already knew from having a facebook of my own that it was created by Mark Zuckerburg, but i never knew the story behind it, or what his initial intentions were. I thought he just randomly thought to create a social site where people from all over the world could communicate, but after reading about "facemash.com", it makes me view him differently, he was kind-of a jerk! I think he could get in a lot of trouble for hacking the facebook pages at harvard. It also makes me thing of the "Boston" pages on facebook, who also compare pictures of people on facebook and declare whos better look, or who's "fresh" or who has the "best body".. its disgusting!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
A Walk to Remember: Work Cited Page for The New York Times review
Scott, A. O. "Movie Review - A Walk to Remember - FILM IN REVIEW; 'A Walk to Remember' - NYTimes.com." Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers - Movies - New York Times - The New York Times. 23 Feb. 2011. Web. 23 Feb. 2011. <http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9402E0DB163AF936A15752C0A9649C8B63>.
A Walk to Remember: Response to review
A Walk to Remember is one of my most favorite movies, and a lot of other girls my age think it's a really good movie, so I was surprised to read a review on the film that didn't really agree with me. The review was from The New York Times (online) and written by A. O. Scott. "I'm still not sure what I did wrong, but for some reason I was sentenced to spend 97 minutes in the wholesome purgatory that is ''A Walk to Remember.'' I wish I could say that the experience left me a better person, or that, in the favored idiom of studio publicity copy, it ''changed my life forever,'' but by the end I was tempted to go off in search of some industrial scaffolding and a shallow river of my own" (Scott). I feel like that comment he made was to get laughs out of people (well obviously), but in actuality he made himself look very immature. The movie wasn't supposed to "change your life forever", but instead to inspire you, or to simply entertain you.
"No indeed. One indication of Landon's reformation is that he tunes out Missy Elliott's naughty ''Get Ur Freak On'' in favor of Christian pop. The movie's deep message seems to be that bad music is good for you" (Scott). I semi-agree with this statement. The part in the movie when Landon turns off Missy Elliot to listen to Christian music WAS an indication that he was changing but it wasn't supposed to how that bad music is good for you. I understand that the review was from his opinion, but if the writer is supposed to be giving a GOOD review and going to be recommending or not recommending movies for people, he shouldn't have been so biased.
Half way through the review, i was shaking my head in disagreement at everything the writer was saying about the movie, clearly he had missed the beauty of it, the chemistry between the characters, the flowing plot, and the touching/heart-breaking moments. Then I decided to read the comments and I came across someone who basically took the words right out of my mouth. "When I first went and saw this film at my local movie theater the first night it was out in January of 2002, my first thoughts were like "Okay, I just wasted $6 on a not worth-a-sh*t movie, I'll proabably get up and leave about halfway through, and demand my money back." But as the film progressed, I began to realize "Hey, this is one of the best movies I have ever gone to see in my life"; in fact, never before, and only one other time, since, have I ever seen such a somber audience during such a film. That's what made this movie so special, because in some places, it will break your heart, such as when Jamie reveals that she has cancer (leukemia, more specifically), and when she goes Home to be with God at the end, leaving Landon by his lonesome. But it also leaves you breathless, because it makes you see that miracles really do exist" (ericebac24).
I completely agreed with that comment made by a reader. Yes, it is a really sappy love story, and for someone doesn't like that type of movie, then thats definitely not the movie for them. But for people who are open-minded, they might be able to see the beauty of it the way, the way it breaks your heart and puts it back together in the blink of an eye. As for the review, I completely disagree with it, but by looking at the comments made me reader, I see that i'm not alone :)
*work cited included in separate blog*
"No indeed. One indication of Landon's reformation is that he tunes out Missy Elliott's naughty ''Get Ur Freak On'' in favor of Christian pop. The movie's deep message seems to be that bad music is good for you" (Scott). I semi-agree with this statement. The part in the movie when Landon turns off Missy Elliot to listen to Christian music WAS an indication that he was changing but it wasn't supposed to how that bad music is good for you. I understand that the review was from his opinion, but if the writer is supposed to be giving a GOOD review and going to be recommending or not recommending movies for people, he shouldn't have been so biased.
Half way through the review, i was shaking my head in disagreement at everything the writer was saying about the movie, clearly he had missed the beauty of it, the chemistry between the characters, the flowing plot, and the touching/heart-breaking moments. Then I decided to read the comments and I came across someone who basically took the words right out of my mouth. "When I first went and saw this film at my local movie theater the first night it was out in January of 2002, my first thoughts were like "Okay, I just wasted $6 on a not worth-a-sh*t movie, I'll proabably get up and leave about halfway through, and demand my money back." But as the film progressed, I began to realize "Hey, this is one of the best movies I have ever gone to see in my life"; in fact, never before, and only one other time, since, have I ever seen such a somber audience during such a film. That's what made this movie so special, because in some places, it will break your heart, such as when Jamie reveals that she has cancer (leukemia, more specifically), and when she goes Home to be with God at the end, leaving Landon by his lonesome. But it also leaves you breathless, because it makes you see that miracles really do exist" (ericebac24).
I completely agreed with that comment made by a reader. Yes, it is a really sappy love story, and for someone doesn't like that type of movie, then thats definitely not the movie for them. But for people who are open-minded, they might be able to see the beauty of it the way, the way it breaks your heart and puts it back together in the blink of an eye. As for the review, I completely disagree with it, but by looking at the comments made me reader, I see that i'm not alone :)
*work cited included in separate blog*
A Walk to Remember: Film Response
When i first started watching the movie, i was immediately exciting because the film stars Mandy Moore and Shane West. I LOVE Mandy Moore, i think shes such a good actress, so i already had a feeling the movie was going to be really good. When the movie started, I began to realize that Landon and Jamie's names were still kept the same, but the names of Landon's friends were changed (nothing major though). The movie starts out with 3 cars driving into a junk yard, and the camera shoots this from a birds eye view. Landon and his friends all come out of their cars and they're waiting for a boy named Clay. Clay wanted to be a part of their "cool" crew, so that night he was going to have to pass the test. There's this really tall type of boardwalk that has a big mass of dirty water under it, and Clay had to make the dive. Landon tricked him by saying he was going to jump in with him, but when they counted down to three, Landon didnt jump. Clay belly flopped into the water and hit a pole that was in there. Landon climbed down the ladder and went in the water to save him, but by the time landon got in the water, a suspicious security guard was already calling for back up. Everyone left except for Landon, who couldnt leave in time. He was arrested by the police and got off with a slap on the wrist. As punishment by his principal, he had to participate in the school play (where he and Jamie started connecting). This whole part was not included in the book.
There were also other things that were different between the book and the novel. The play wasn't as big of a deal in the movie as it was in the film, Jamie's father was not involved in the play at all, although she did play the leading role, the play was not about her. A lot of the specific things that happened in the novel, like visiting the orphanage and Landon collecting jars didnt happen in the movie. But the overall plot of the story was kept.
I reaaaaaaaaallllyyy enjoyed the movie, but it wasn't as good as the book. I feel like with the book, you really got to understand there thoughts and watch them gradually fall in love with each other. Whereas in the movie, Landon falling in love with Jamie happened pretty quickly. I would definately recommend the novel and the movie to anyone, and also any novel by Nicholas Sparks, he's AMAZING!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
A Walk to Remember (pages 155-207)
Jamie had been acting weird lately, then Landon finally told her how he felt. He said "I Love you, Jamie" and Jamie began to cry. As he hugged her, Landon realized she was very thin, his arms went all the way around her, she had lost weight. She told him he couldnt be in love with her, because she was dying.
Jamie had Leukemia and everything became so clear. Landon understood why Jamie was the christmas angel in the play this year, why hegbert freted that he keep coming by the house, why she wanted christmas at the orphanage to be special this year, why she didn't think she'd go to college, why she gave him her bible.
Jamie was getting very sick, very fast. Landon felt in his heart that there was still something he needed to do. He read the bible daily with Jamie and his father even paid for the medical machines to be brought to jamies house, so she could spent her final days at home. Landon prayed for a miracle, for jamie to get better. Then Landon realized what he had to do, what his heart was longing to do, marry Jamie.
So Landon and Jamie had a nice wedding, it was short notice but almost everyone in town showed up. As weak as she was, Jamie was determined to walk down the aisle on her own, and so she did. With her father holding her arm, Jamie walked down the aisle to her teary groom. there wasnt a dry eye in that church! Jamie and Landon got married and he recalls it to be the best moment of his entire life.
Quote: " I was so in love with her, so deeply in love that i didn't care if she was sick. I didn't care that we wouldn't have long together. None of those things mattered to me. All i cared about was doing something that my heart had told me was the right thing to do. In my mind it was the first time God had ever spoken directly to me, and I knew with certainty that i wasnt going to disobey" (Sparks, 202).
Reaction: I really loved the ending of this novel. I feel like it didn't have a happy ending, but then again it did. It would've been great if, jamie and landon, complete opposites, fell in love, got married, and spent the whole rest of their lives together, but that wouldve been too predictable. It wouldve made A Walk to Remember just like all those other cliche romance novels out there. The fact that Jamie doesnt live, takes away from the "happily ever after" ending, but on the other hand, the fact that they both found love and we able to get married before she died, gives it that happy ending that warms people's hearts <3.
Jamie was getting very sick, very fast. Landon felt in his heart that there was still something he needed to do. He read the bible daily with Jamie and his father even paid for the medical machines to be brought to jamies house, so she could spent her final days at home. Landon prayed for a miracle, for jamie to get better. Then Landon realized what he had to do, what his heart was longing to do, marry Jamie.
So Landon and Jamie had a nice wedding, it was short notice but almost everyone in town showed up. As weak as she was, Jamie was determined to walk down the aisle on her own, and so she did. With her father holding her arm, Jamie walked down the aisle to her teary groom. there wasnt a dry eye in that church! Jamie and Landon got married and he recalls it to be the best moment of his entire life.
Quote: " I was so in love with her, so deeply in love that i didn't care if she was sick. I didn't care that we wouldn't have long together. None of those things mattered to me. All i cared about was doing something that my heart had told me was the right thing to do. In my mind it was the first time God had ever spoken directly to me, and I knew with certainty that i wasnt going to disobey" (Sparks, 202).
Reaction: I really loved the ending of this novel. I feel like it didn't have a happy ending, but then again it did. It would've been great if, jamie and landon, complete opposites, fell in love, got married, and spent the whole rest of their lives together, but that wouldve been too predictable. It wouldve made A Walk to Remember just like all those other cliche romance novels out there. The fact that Jamie doesnt live, takes away from the "happily ever after" ending, but on the other hand, the fact that they both found love and we able to get married before she died, gives it that happy ending that warms people's hearts <3.
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