Kaye Antonette F. Uba Contemporary
Literature
BSED-English 3 Prof.
Maria Emperatriz Rabat
Character Analysis
The character I have chosen for study is Noah Taylor Calhoun, from Nicholas Sparks great novel, “The Notebook”. He is an interesting character.
He displays several qualities which make him an interesting character. He
is a traditional, fun-loving, romantic, and respectable guy. He is submissive
and is the type of person who would always remain loyal and honest. Noah is the narrator and the protagonist of
the novel. He is a most engaging character who is unimpressed with striving for
success no matter what the cost. He is a hard worker in whatever he engages
himself, but will never be sucked into a job that keeps him away from nature and
the beauty of poetry. He is a good and kind man who fell in love with Allison
Nelson (Allie). Noah is a loving son to his father and a good lover to Allie.
When the time that they are a part of Allie he never stops loving her.
I choose to analyze his personality
because I really admire his sincerity, determination and great love to Allie.
For me, he is the best description of a right man because he never gives up his
love for Allie even though their time had passed. He is a man who has his word
because he fulfill his promise to Allie that he will buy the abandoned house
called The Windson Plantation and the house will be white, with blue shutters,
a walk-around porch and a room that overlooks the creek so Allie can paint. For
me, when Noah made his promise to Allie it shows how compassionate his love to
her and it made me realize that there are still a person who will love you
unconditionally without expecting in return. He proved that love never fades
even though time made a longest distance between them.
Noah’s core goal in the story is to
help Allie remember their past. As the story begins, it is showing a situation
or a scene of two old couple. Unfortunately, the woman, who is Allie, is
suffering from dementia, which has stolen her memories. Allie does not
recognize their grown children and grand children. Noah read a story from a
notebook to Allie in order for her to remember their love story. He insisted to
stay with Allie even though their children want him to go home. It is very
important to Noah to be remembered by Allie because of love. Noah can’t take to
see Allie in her condition. He wants to be with her always even though she doesn’t
remember him. The only thing that makes them connected is the notebook that was
written by Allie. Noah made a promise to Allie that he will read it to her if
she will forget the things about them. He is willing to sacrifice everything in
order to be with Allie. I had witnessed in the film the great love of Noah to
Allie. They’re maybe old but his love to Allie never changes. His love to Allie
transforms him in many ways that I never could imagine.
The notebook symbolizes the
compilation and the things they had been through. It is the thing that Noah
used to go back in their love story. It is the instrument used by Noah to
retell their love story to Allie and it is the only thing that made them
connected to each other.
Everything
they had been through is written in the notebook. It is very important to Noah
because the notebook is the reflection of their past. Through the notebook Noah
gain courage and hope that Allie would remember him and their love to each
other. It made him stronger and holds on the possibilities that a miracle would
cure the memory of Allie. It builds determination and hope to Noah to hold on
their love even though his greatest rival is the illness which affects their
love. His love for her never fades.
The story revolve from present to
their past because Noah is just retelling their love story to Allie trough
reading the notebook but the problem is that Allie doesn’t have any idea that
the characters in the story are her and Noah. This problem only resolves when
the time that Noah escaped to his room and secretly went in the room of Allie.
Inside the room, Allie is sleeping and Noah is sitting beside her, he talks few
words to her and unexpectedly Allie woke up and finally remembered Noah. After
their conversation they decided to sleep together. The next morning the nurse
finds them in bed together, having both died peacefully holding each other’s
hands. It ends showing their hearts in peace and seeing a flock of birds flying
away that symbolizes freedom, peace and their happiness together.
It is a great story that everybody
should witness. Words can’t say what love can do. The love story of Noah and
Allie proved that even if the mind forgets the heart still remembers, that’s
love it doesn’t need anything in return it just giving your love unselfishly.
Love surpasses everything.
I have learned that everything has a
reason. The only thing you can do is to patiently wait and never stop hoping
because like in the novel, Noah never gives up his love to Allie. He patiently
waits and never stops loving her. He proved to her that his love never changes
instead it grows deeper and deeper as the years passes by. If I were Noah I
would do the same thing because if you really love that person you would wait
and fight for that love. Noah is a great man with great love to Allie.
I admire the personality of Noah
because in his entire life the only girl that he truly loves is Allie. It made
me amazed of how great his love was. He truly possessed the word of a deserving
man to a woman who waits. Their love story is a test of time. A time to wait
and a love who waited for the time to be remembered. There are statements that
Noah tells to Allie that I will never forget and the two of them were, “I love
you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every
dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day
we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours,” and “So it's not gonna be easy. It's
going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want
to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday, you and me
every day.” These lines stated by Noah mark on my mind because if ever somebody
would say it to me I would definitely the happiest person in the world. I
wanted to know a person like Noah because he gave his love to Allie
unconditionally. It describes that Noah played a big part to Allie’s life from
the beginning until the end
Another interesting character in my
study is Harry James Potter the
protagonist of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
series, a half-blood wizard.
Harry is the hero in the story.
Orphaned as a baby; he is brought up by his aunt and uncle, the Dursleys,
maltreated by them, and tormented by their intolerable son, Dudley. Harry grows
up to be a timid boy unsure of his abilities. His sudden fame as a wizard at
Hogwarts comes not just as a total contrast to his earlier forgotten misery,
but as a fate that I feel is very much deserved after his youthful suffering.
Yet even after he becomes famous, Harry never loses his modesty and humility.
Harry’s role in the story is to continue his destiny and to find the answers
about his past. Harry is a great wizard who has this unique ability. Harry wants to know about his parents and discover
who killed them. He is
one of the most famous wizards in Hogwarts because of it is said that he
is the only boy who escaped from death by Lord Voldemort and the living proof
is the scar in his forehead. This unsuccessful attempt to vanquish Harry led to
Voldemort's first defeat. The secret and the reason why Lord Voldemort failed
to kill harry is because of love. Harry was protected by his ability to love,
the only protection that can possibly work against the lure power of Voldemort.
I choose to analyze the character of Harry
Potter because I find it very interesting. Harry’s personality is very amazing
that every youth should see him as a model because Harry is a person who
possesses great courage, humility, strength, determination and a person who
treasure his friends very much. Knowing the personality of Harry gives an
inspiration to everyone because he truly shows the personality of being a true
person who will fight for the right in order to protect his friends and to
defend his family. His great adventure travels us in showing that we should not
be deceived by power and popularity. Harry is a humble person that would
sacrifice his own happiness and even life in order to save, protect and defend the
people he loves. And one of the characteristics of Harry that I admire the most
is his heart or his ability to love others more than his own. That in spite of all the temptation he had
endured, all the suffering he remains pure heart.
Harry’s core goal is to find justice
in the death of his parents by defeating Lord Voldemort. It is said that the
root of all the happenings is death. It started when Lord Voldemort tried to
kill Harry because in the prophecy the only person who can kill and oppose his
power is Harry but because of great love of Harry’s parents he failed. It is
very important to Harry to know the real cause and reason why Lord Voldemort
did killed his parents and by defeating him all dark powers would vanish. Harry
would sacrifice everything in order to achieve this goal because it is already
started and it is destined for him.
For me, the symbolism for Harry is
his lightning bolt scar in his forehead because this makes him famous and
different to other wizard. It is his identity. Harry’s scar is a constant
physical reminder of the incident in which both of his parents were killed by
Lord Voldemort. The scar perpetually connects Harry to his past. Not only to
his traumatic experience with Voldemort, but also to his loving parents who
died to protect him. His scar is a visible proof of having survived a great
battle and of his destiny to wage more battles in the future. It is this slight
imperfection which forever marks him as a hero. It is an important symbol to
Harry because this is a reminder that there are forces more powerful than Death
itself. Like when it was only through his parent’s love which is the force they
use to protect Harry from death.
Harry only resolves the conflict
when he killed Lord Voldemort, as it is said in the prophecy that the only
person who can kill Voldemort is Harry. At the very beginning Harry is destined
to kill Lord Voldemort and it is the reason why he is fighting and practicing
magic in order to defeat the dark Lord. It is he who only knew the whole past
of Harry and he is the one responsible of the death of his parents. Through
killing Lord Voldemort the destiny of Harry would fulfilled.
In the long magical journey of Harry
I come up to a conclusion that what matters most is not about how powerful and
skillful you are as a person but as long as you have good friends and a heart
that desire to defend the people he treasures. Harry is a person with courage,
determination and strength of heart. Without this he can never fulfill his
destiny to fight Lord Voldemort. He has this personality to save people not
knowing his own safety. He is a kind of person whom you wanted to meet and
became friends. We have the same
personality of Harry and that is treasuring my friends and having this strength
of heart. I will do anything that I can do in order to help my friend just like
Harry he is willing to help his friends when they are in need.
I really admire Harry’s humility
because even though he knows that he has this exceptional ability and the
destiny to kill the most powerful dark Lord he still showing his modesty to
others. That despite of all the great things he had done he still stay as a
normal student and just being Harry Potter. If I were in the place of harry
Potter I would also choose to have that destiny because without that destiny I
would not able to experience being happy with the people who truly cared for me
and I was not able to see the good things behind every mystery that unfolds my
whole personality. If I am in his place I would also choose to have the scar in
the forehead because that what makes me unique and different to others. Through
my scar they would recognize me not in the tragic situation happened in my
parents but as a person who survived from an inch of death.
One of the great statements that are
stated in the movie that is memorable to me is when Albus Dumbledore states these
words to Harry in the Chamber of Secrets, “It is our choices that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities”. It means that we should remember that we all have magic inside of us.
The choices that we make lead to actions, either our own or someone else's
actions that we choose. All actions have consequences,
so it is our responsibility to try to make the right choice in order for us to
come up with the right consequences. Our abilities have little to do with
choices; it is our choices and our actions that will determine our abilities. Lastly
in the great adventure of harry in the story I can say that love is what makes
the story goes because without love Harry would not continue his destiny and it
is also the thing said by his mother that would only protect him at beginning of the story. It is the only
protection that can possibly work against the lure of power of darkness. As one
of the theme in the story aside from death and choosing between good and evil, “Love is the most power force in the world”.
Noah
Calhoun Taylor and
Harry James Potter similar in terms of valuing something that is very important
to them, Noah in pursuing his love to Allie, and Harry in facing his destiny
and his battle to death. Noah is a man who has patience to wait for her love
and Harry who has a good heart and a person who treasures friendship and
humility. They both fight for what their hearts dictates. They differ in their
outlook of life because Noah is just waiting for the time that Allie would come
back to him when the time that she would finally realized that he is the person
he truly loves while Harry is a person who will do the action right away and
would not waste time. They are both characters who came in different world,
situation, destiny and fate but the only thing that makes them related to each
other is that they both believe in dreams. A dream that someday or some ways
they will attain their goals and desires. They believe in impossible things
that help them grow as a person and develop good relationship to others. In
their own unique ways they reflect the different people in terms on how they
make a choice and choose their destiny in life.
The great authors of the two novels
are Nicholas Sparks and Joanne Kathleen Rowling, who gives the
readers or the viewers find and choose their own characters to be reflected.
Both novels attained the interest and give the readers a view of how the world
is related to a stage and we are the characters in our chosen play. Nicholas
Sparks’s way of writing a story is by his experiences and to the people he met
wherein J.K Rowling is very creative in writing a story she conceived the idea
for the series on a train trip of a young boy attending a school of wizardry
Weeeeeee, this is my character analysis :) ( hegz kau maghmu ana frend XD hahaha' ningkamut intawn !!).
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