Describe one your favorite film adaptations (like we did with The Scarlet Letter and Easy A). What did the adaptation change? What did it keep? Why? What issues are raised, are how do they relate to the specific time, audience, or culture? What does this tell you about the importance of reading a text with its context in mind?

The movie vs. the book "The Notebook," was very different from each other. There are many things that happened differently in each piece. However, both pieces are being told by a couple who live in a nursing home when they are slowly dying. From the beginning to the end, the book was a lot better than the movie. The book was written in 2000 and the movie was published 4 years later in 2004. I believe the movie was trying to be more modernized than the book had originally been. Looking back, there were not any major historical events that made this movie stand out because of the time in which the book or movie was published. I do the believe the movie adapted to be more for the younger generation rather than the book which seemed to be more for the older generation. The book seemed more realistic because it seemed as if they just happened to finally be together until they died where as the movie seemed like they were destined to be together. Overall, I think Nicolas Sparks writes about love stories rather than what is happening in the world at the time he is writing!