Nicholas Sparks Research Paper

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Same Author Different Movies Nicholas Sparks has written many books that have been made into movies. Many people across the nation patiently wait for a new Nicholas Sparks movie to be released. Even though each movie has the same storyline, Sparks manages to keep people dying to see his newest movies. Although each movie has a similar plot, there are differences in two of his movies: The Longest Ride and The Choice that draw people back to the theaters for the premieres. The movies The Longest Ride and The Choice have many similarities. If a person examines the movies close enough, he or she will realize that each movie is set in a rural area. Both movies are set in a small town where everybody knows everybody. In these two movies, there …show more content…

In The Choice, the couple is very much alike because they are in the medical field. In The Longest Ride, the couple has two completely different interests. For example, Luke is a bull rider and Sophia is an artist. Even though these two couples differ in their interests, Sparks manages to make the characters both fall in love with each other. In both movies, each couple faces a tragic situation (Conti). In The Longest Ride, Luke is thrown off of the bull he is riding at the competition. In The Choice, Gabby is in a car wreck on the way to a date with Travis. In both instances, the tragic situations bring the couples closer. Each significant other waits at the bedside for the injured one to wake up. Travis and Sophia are scared because their loved one is hurting. The feeling of anticipation is what makes the viewers love these movies. Each person anticipates what is going to happen in each climax that rises in the …show more content…

Travis and Gabby have a family together while Luke and Sophia never get married or have children. Travis and Gabby are older and more mature when they meet in the movie. Luke and Sophia are a younger and more immature couple that does not get married. Both The Longest Ride and The Choice are love stories that are intertwined with a tragedy that ends with both couples overcoming the tragedy. Luke overcomes the terrible accident he has while bull riding. Gabby lives through the car wreck that threatened her like. Both couples face horrific events that bring them closer to each other and makes them stronger as a couple. The couples come from different social classes. Luke Comes from a lower class while Sophia comes from a higher class. Luke is considered lower class because he is a cowboy, and Sophia is higher class because her parents send her to college and she gets into art school in New York. In The Choice, both couples come from higher class backgrounds because they both have medical degrees. Gabby, coming from a higher-class family, is going to school to become a doctor when Travis meets her, and Travis is a local veterinarian at the clinic he and his dad work