While he inspected the crab cages, Allie inspected the dock and found the inscription “Noah loves Allie,” which was carved in the dock just days before she left, 14 years before.ĭuring the Dinner Noah finally asked Allie why she had never responded to his letters, after that Allie didn’t know what to say, because she never became any letter.

Allie admitted that she was not only engaged to be married, but that the wedding was in three weeks.Īfter a long talk, Noah then invited Allie to stay for a crab dinner. Finally, Allie broke the silence and greeted Noah. Once Allie arrived at Noah’s place, the old man continued, Noah and Allie kept silent, each one lost in ones thoughts, memories and feelings. Once arrived in New Bern, Allie was still unsure about her decision to meet Noah again, until she opened her pocketbook and came to a folded- up piece of newspaper.

The right decision to meet Noah again, after 14-years of separation, to clarify the “never forgotten things”, and to tell him about her engagement with Lon, a very successful lawyer.Lon didn’t know the real reason she had left the following morning because she had made up a good excuse. On a clear morning and a hundred miles away, the old man narrated, a 29 year old woman, called Allie, with beautiful blue eyes and blond hair wondered if she had made the right decision. Noah felt very lonely in New Bern- all he had was a dog called Clementine and all he did was read poems, play his guitar or think of the old happy times with his father But sometimes he thought about his first love, Allie. The man started to narrate a story, that happened in October 1946: A young man called Noah, without a job, started to fix up an old house in New Bern. Soon he started to read from a notebook to her, like every day, with the hope that the miracle that had come to dominate his life would once again prevail. He was visiting his wife who was suffering from dementia. The Notebook opens with an unnamed narrator asking “Who am I?” Soon the readers understand that the narrator was an 80 year old man, who lived in a type of retirement home.The man wasn’t really happy.He walked down the hall into a room, where there were two nurses.

The notebook sparks