Title of Book: The Notebook Author: Nicholas Sparks # of Pages is 224 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Why This Book has Value: The Notebook is a romance tragedy taken place in the story of a couple who reflect back on their early ages of their lives. It shows how these characters grow and strengthen throughout the relationship and how their love goes through trial and test to join them in time. What makes this book have moral value and gives importance is its theme of love is undying and to no matter the events in your life to follow your heart. It shows this through the relationship in the story and how its taken place in the setting from an older couple remembering their relationship and how they got to became who they are. This story is most important to the audience because of its ability for the reader to be able to relate to the characters and their situation. In modern life there is much pressure to walk a certain road an to do whats in your best interest even if its not the path you feel true to yourself or want to follow. This relates the read to the theme by saying to live life doing what you want and love and to follow your heart to the things it wants. This theme also places importance on how this story unfolds, starting from an early couple conflicted with the interest of others they struggle to be together when others pull them apart, and wonder how the story concludes in the end. Later on it goes to explain the secondary conflict of another relationship and the revelations between each characters relationships. This plot all ties back to an importance in the authors viewpoints and how he portrays these conflicts to be relate-able to real world situations. This book is worth the time to a reader because it gives a compelling and engaging story and it demonstrates the theme of love and following your chosen path. The setting gives great importance to being relate-able to the audience and speaking to the reader. The author does a great way of connecting it to real world situations while still keeping the factional importance of the characters love and relationships. Overall, I would recommend this book and do enjoy reading it.