Dear John

Cast of Characters:

John Tyree
Savannah Curtis
Bill Tyree
Tim
Alan

Settings:

 Wilmington, NC and Lenior, NC. Begins in 2000 and ends with epilogue in 2006. Dear John is a three part book that starts out with 23 year-old John Tyree, an army enlistee.

Theme: 

" Love is not self- seeking. "

Author:

Nicholas Sparks is an American screenwriter and novelist, born on 31st December 1965 to Patrick Michael Sparks and Jill Emma Marie. He was the middle of three children. He was raised as a Catholic and he still follows the Catholic faith. He is very religious man; going to Church, Sunday school and confessions. His son is an altar boy. As a young kid he moved a lot as his father was continuing with his education. In 1974 his family finally settled in Fair Oaks in California where he graduated from Bella Vista High School as a valedictorian. For further studies he went to University of Notre Dame where he got a full track and field scholarship and graduated in 1988. He met the girl, who was later to become his wife, during the spring break of that year. They got married in 1989 and moved to Sacramento, California.

Dear John

John Tyree, he is big, muscular, Army Special Forces. For the most part John, he is a nice guy, especially after he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah.

She is sweet and innocent. She believes that everyone is mostly good. She has a big heart and wants to save the world. She comes from a rich family. She is petite, blond haired and blue eyed.  

John leaves for the military, leaving Savannah behind but they decide to maintain a long-distance relationship as he loves her more than anything  and is looking forward to seeing her again. 

 While on leave, they remain in touch and keep sending each other letters to keep up with each other's lives.

John and Savannah decide to stay together and continue to write to each other. Eventually, however, Savannah, being away to college, falls in love with another man and she send John a letter telling him that she has stopped waiting for him as she feels that are growing apart, and she now wants a real life with a real relationship. 

John is heartbroken and they stop exchanging letters.

One day, while still being on leave, John learns of his father's death. He comes home and then looks for Savannah and that is when he sees her with another man - her husband. They talk and even though she still has feelings for him, she wants to leave their story in the past. 

John decides to let Savannah go as he loves her more than anything and wants her to be happy. 

 The man Savannah married is her childhood best friend Tim who John had become friends with when dating her the summer they first met.

Savannah tells John that Tim has Melanoma and that he is going to die, unless he receives better treatments at another hospital which he cannot afford.  

Tim goes to the hospital to speak with John's father telling that if something happen to him, he wants John to take care of Savannah.

Despite the prospect of being reunited with the woman of his life, John decides to donate his father's coin collection to Tim's fund to enable him to get treatments.

Then John goes back to Iraq and never speaks to Savannah again and continues living his life in the army.  

(The End)