DEAR JOHN

DEAR JOHN by Nicholas Sparks who wrote THE NOTEBOOK, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, and A WALK TO REMEMBER, tells the story of John Tyree, a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis, the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas—correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences.


This tearjerker characterizes John Tyree as a despondent adult who continues to sign up for deployment in the military to escape his ghosts. He is emotionally tied to his father, who possibly has autism, a solitary, emtionally stunted man, who has spent a lifetime collectiong and researching coins.


John and Savannah meet on the Carolina coast one summer while he surfs, and she works with friends to build an house for Habitat for Humanity. John is on leave from the Army Special Forces; he and Amanda vow to keep in touch while he is away in Kuwait and Iraq. They hand write love letters. Then 9/11 complicates matters. John returns to duty. He makes a choice between love and war.


This young couple both make difficult choices in life. They are transformed by love. but, do they end up together?