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Nicholas Sparks

A Walk to Remember

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

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Essay Topics

1.

How does Sparks treat the subject of prejudice in his novel?

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How does the Carter and Sullivan families’ feud play out in Landon and Jamie’s romance?

3.

What significance does The Christmas Angel play in the novel?

4.

How does the concept of the miraculous play out in Sparks’s novel?

5.

Discuss Sparks’s portrayal of social outcasts. Is his treatment of them rounded and sympathetic or stereotypical?

6.

What function does the town of Beaufort play in the novel?

7.

Discuss the convergence of the spiritual and sexual in Jamie and Landon’s romance.

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In your opinion, why do you think Sparks frames the narrative of Landon’s 17th year with extracts from his 57-year-old self? What effect does this have on the reader’s interpretation of the novel?

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In what ways does A Walk to Remember epitomize the tropes of a coming-of-age novel?

10.

Discuss the conflict of the religious and the secular in Sparks’s novel.

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