1. Plot Summary
1.1. love story WO2 USA
1.2. Allie & Noah first love
1.2.1. forced apart, different worlds
1.2.2. Noah unanswered letters
1.3. Noah: travel north
1.3.1. gainful work
1.3.2. last goodbye letter
1.3.3. escape ghost of Allie
1.3.4. enlists to go to war
1.3.5. returning: old farmhouse + restoration
1.4. Allie + another guy
1.4.1. newspaper article
1.4.2. see Noah begore wedding
1.4.3. 14 years of seperation
1.4.3.1. meet again
1.4.4. 2 days
1.4.4.1. fell in love
1.4.5. mother: fiancé found out
1.4.5.1. choose
1.4.5.1.1. love
1.4.5.1.2. right thing
1.4.5.1.3. result: further
1.5. old man
1.5.1. reading to women w. Alzheimer's
1.5.1.1. wife
1.5.2. wonderful life + great kids
1.5.3. hard times
1.5.3.1. wife not knowing
1.5.4. woman = Allie
1.5.5. man = Noah
1.5.6. Allie chose Noah
1.5.6.1. happy, wonderful life
2. Words
2.1. sight
2.2. rip-roaring
2.3. gopher
2.4. to strew
2.5. gravel
2.6. lumber
2.7. tug
2.8. pneumonia
2.9. timber
2.10. to wander
2.11. okra
2.12. zucchini
2.13. chasm
2.14. ax
2.15. cushion
2.16. to fidget
2.17. to board up
2.18. creek
2.19. cadence
2.20. awe
2.21. to stir
3. Context
3.1. Historical
3.1.1. pre- & post-WO II area
3.1.1.1. Noah
3.1.1.1.1. rough time after seperation w. Allie
3.1.1.1.2. summer 1935, N=17 A=15
3.1.1.1.3. enlisted to go to WO II
3.1.1.1.4. escape ghost Allie
3.1.1.1.5. in hart forever
3.1.1.1.6. foxhole -> Allie watching over him
3.1.1.1.7. other women
3.1.1.1.8. friends die, buried thousands of miles from home
3.1.1.1.9. war ended, discharged
3.1.1.2. Allie
3.1.1.2.1. volunteer hospital downtown
3.1.1.2.2. broken men, shattered bodies
3.1.1.2.3. Lon
3.1.1.2.4. fear and weakness
3.2. Social
3.2.1. summer 1935
3.2.1.1. A: higher class
3.2.1.2. N: workman
3.2.1.3. A's parents against realtionship
3.2.1.4. A's parents back home
3.2.1.4.1. goodbye
3.2.1.5. letters 2 years
3.2.1.5.1. mother kept hidden
3.2.2. Lon
3.2.2.1. lawyer
3.2.2.2. father: businessman
3.2.2.3. familie: powerful & influential
3.2.3. Noah
3.2.3.1. workman
3.2.3.2. soldier
3.2.4. cast system
3.2.4.1. marriage
3.2.4.1.1. family name
3.2.4.1.2. accomplishments
3.2.5. economic & social dissimilarity
3.2.6. high-class society