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Chapter 1: Miracles

This chapter is about the introduction of the scenery in which things are going to
develop. He is in a room with a thermostat, he explains. He complains in the
first paragraph, if everybody of his age has the life he passes. It appears, he
5 does not like his life enough, and he wants to pass his life unnoticed. This
person starts to introduce part of his life.
He is in a room with a thermostat, he explains. He complains in the first
paragraph, if everybody of his age has the life he passes. It appears, he does
not like his life enough, and he wants to pass his life unnoticed. This person
10 starts to introduce part of his life, and gives information about some path he
chose. Now he is eighty years old and he takes his life with resignation
Then he explains, he had to go to some place, and it appears, it is the hall way.
He heard some sounds of crying in the distance. He goes to a room, he saw
two nurse in that room who greeted him while he was entering to it. He worries
15 the crying he heard but it seemed to be unnoticed for the nurses. He starts
staring at some girl that he likes perhaps, but she didn’t look at him, what
makes him think he is a stranger for her. While he is doing things he explains,
he is a hopeful guy. He strongly believe in miracles, and he knows what he
wants in his mind someday is going to happen. So that he is against Science
20 because it cannot explain what he believes.
He starts talking and describing Noah, a young person who passes through
some problems of love round his life,
He wish he can find Allie in any place, because he’s got the thought “what
would happen if…?” It finishes when this man says I believe in miracles
25 knowing science could be against him.
Chapter 2 Ghosts
It starts with the description of Noah Calhoun, a good man who bought one of
the oldest and biggest houses of New Bern. Then, the narrator talks about how
Noah met Gus, his best friend, a seventy-years-old black man, they shared
30 moments and experiences the first afternoon Gus entered to Noah’s house.
In this chapter, the author writes about what Noah Calhoun did as a routine for
him, like looking at the trees and their reflection in the river. He lives in New
Bern, in an old house made around 1772 being one of the oldest houses in that
place which he bought thanks to any small fortune he had. At this point, the
35 work explains something about his work and what he did before going to his
work. His father played the guitar and so does Noah. He has a pet, exactly a
female hound dog called Clem. Unfortunately that dog suffered and accident
and it lost one of her legs in consequence of that.
Noah Calhoun is thirty one years old and he felt alone, he was alone! He had
40 not met any girl since he arrived there. He wondered every night before falling
asleep if he would be doomed to live like that till the last of his days.
Noah had been out of New Bern for fourteen years, but this city was still home
where he met lot of people when he was adolescent. And he realized when he
got back the habitants of that city did not change but getting older.
45 Currently his best friend was called Gus, a black man aged seventy years old
who lived at the final of the street. They met each other few days after Noah
bought his house when Gus got there with a bottle of liquor and Brunswick
stew, in this way both of them passed his first evening together getting drunk
and talking the other one some anecdotes.
50 In one opportunity, Noah fell in love, he was pretty sure of that, and he
considered Gus as a member of his family.
The narrator describes how Noah met Allie in a festival with Fin and Sarah, so
they start to date every day and fell in love till the day they had to separate.
He gets alone, not wanting to fall in love again. When he stayed in bed with any
55 girl, he did not feel as good as he was with his first love, Annie.
Years later, Allie got up with Lon, a good man and a lawyer. Allie was working
as a volunteer nurse at the hospital downtown. Someday, Allie wanted to go to
the place she left Noah when she was teenager, so she said to Lon she had to
take a break in order to be prepared for the wedding.
60 At the same time, Noah was remembering his first love, Allie, how they met her
and how they broke up. Suddenly, they intersected each other, she realized the
house Noah had promised would be beautiful as she dreamed was real!
They stared at each other for long time, as crazy as they used to be when they
were teenagers.
65 Chapter 3: Reunion
“NEITHER ONE of them moved as they faced each other” They got surprised
because of the presence of the other one. So she told him she already was in a
relationship with Lon Hammond Junior, Noah got jealous but he didn’t show it to
her. He thought they had grown up and they would pass that time when they got
70 along. So they started to share their experiences since they stop talking, and
Allie felt like talking to Noah, a sensation that she did not pass with Lon. She
said the truth about who she thought about since the summer they met. She
started describing Lon as a beautiful man. Noah showed her the picture she
made long time ago. He said something about her way of painting, she was
75 born talented but she didn’t realize it.
So they pass the afternoon in Noah’s home, and in the end of the day Noah
said he would take her to a special place she already knew.
Chapter 4: Phone Calls
This is the shortest one. Lon started to call Allie but she didn’t answer any call
80 from him. So, suspicions came to Lon’s mind, and he called the hotel where
Allie was supposed to be in and left a message in the reception to Allie. He
thought a lot about this incident, so much as the thought popped into his head.
So he managed to remember that she was there because she could meet with
Noah, his ex-boyfriend, but he had no answer himself.
85 Chapter 5: Kayaks and forgotten dreams
Allie wanted to go with Noah the next morning in order to find out what Noah
was talking about the last day, the scene describe what Noah did at the morning
in his house. She wise up about the phone calls made by Lon, she felt
concerned about herself. What could she say about her absence? Where could
90 she be at 11:00 pm in an unknown town? She had to call him but she didn’t
want to do it, because it was her time and she did not want to waste it so she
did not call him back taking advantage of the fact the he could be in court and
he could be very busy at that moment. After that, she went to her car in order to
go to Noah’s house, while she was going, Lon called back to the inn.
95 Chapter 6: Swans and storm
Allie went to Noah’s house as it was proclaimed, she waved from inside the car
which she was driving. She was concerned about the surprise, so much that her
first words with Noah were “Where’s the surprise” instead of saying “Good
afternoon” or “how was your night” or any kind of greeting. It had no importance
100 for them, later Noah took her to a special place whose trip was going to last 1
hour approximately. They talked about what they did in that period of time, if
they thought about the other one. Noah said to Allie that she had to close her
eyes to take her to the place keeping the surprise, so he paddled as far as he
could, the rain started to fall and they arrive to the place Noah wanted her to
105 see, as the rain develops, they got back home. They passed the afternoon
telling the truth, between those words, she admitted she needed him.
Chapter 7: An unexpected visitor
It starts with the case of Lon, and how he managed to postpone this one in
order to take care about Allie’s inconvenient. When the judge accepted to
110 postpone the case, Lon immediately took his car and started a trip to New Bern.
At the same time, in Noah’s house, Allie was made the breakfast by Noah while
she slept in the living room, as soon as they had finished to eat they made love
again in order to “remember” what they did the day before
After that, Allie put her dress on. While they were doing the dishes they heard a
115 knock at the door, so Noah left Allie doing the dishes. When he opened the door
he got shocked because of that presence. Allie’s mother was in front of him. Her
mother started to talk to Allie to say Lon was coming and she had to fix that
problem.
At last, her mum, gave her the letters she had hidden that whole year. Then,
120 Allie start reading one which said Noah was waving at Allie and saying good
bay through that emotive letter. She remembered, and she accepted there was
no time for staying anymore in Noah’s house. She returned to the city she was
before, she saw Lon standing in the lobby.
Chapter 8: Winter for two
125 It starts with the final of the story. Now Noah is in the present and he looks at
Allie, what he really wants is that Allie recuperates but at the same time he
knows Allie’s illness is consuming her mind and her memory so that she cannot
remember what she did in her past. So that’s why Noah tell her all the things
they have passed in their adolescence but without she knows in order to make
130 her remember and recuperate her from her mind illness.
She wondered which one she finally married. And Noah answered in an odd
way trying to recuperate her mind but she didn’t unfortunately wise out

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