Landon and Jamie were opposites but were made for each other but life is cruel and unfair. A huge tragedy falls upon Landon.Since then his life changed forever. If people teach anything in school, that should be it.” Not even in his wildest dreams Landon had thought of losing her. But something stops Jamie, she tells Landon that he shouldn’t be in love with her. Landon discover who Jamie really is and he feels good around her. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” Landon wishes to remain secret friends with her fearing his friends acceptance. Oddly, Landon and Jamie get closer as they practice lines together. Unwillingly he accepts her request only to repay the favour. Jamie asks for a favour in return, she requests Landon to play the lead role, Hegbert’s character. They both end up helping Landon’s ex, as she gets super sloshed at the prom. Jamie is happy as it is the first time a guy has asked her for a prom. Landon ends up picking Jamie as his date. Landon is elected as the student body President and is forced to attend the homecoming prom. The play resembles Hegbert’s life, how as a single parent he has raised his daughter. Jamie was kind to everyone even if they pass mean comments.Įvery year before Christmas, Beaufort High School puts up the play written by Hegbert. They felt she was weird to carry a Bible along with her everywhere.

Landon’s friends never really accepted Jamie. Not that she looked hideous but she looked plain to Landon’s eyes. She never cares about outward appearance but only about the inner beauty. Jamie is a nice girl, loved by all elders. Jamie Sullivan, Hegbert’s daughter, had also signed up for Drama. There were only two boys including him in the drama class. At high-school, Landon signs up for Drama, not because he intended to but it was either Chemistry or Drama.

Hegbert had written a play – The Christmas Angel. Landon teases Hegbert with nasty names and describes him as a very old man. His dad is a busy congressman and they visit Hegbert Sullivan’s Church, a minister who’d been with the church for a really long time. Landon Carter is a playful teenager living under the care of his mother.

“ First you will smile, and then you will cry – don’t say you haven’t been warned.”īack in 1958, Landon Carter was seventeen years old living in Beaufort, North Carolina, a small town filled with sweet people and there were Baptist Churches practically every corner of the town. The book begins with Landon Carter detailing his town.

A walk to remember is a beautiful story set in late 1950’s.

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