Since nobody else seems to be available, Landon reluctantly asks Jamie Sullivan, daughter of Hegbert Sullivan - the Beaufort church minister, who accepts his invitation. That night, he looks through his yearbook, trying to find an acceptable date. He asks many girls, but none are available. As student body president Landon is required to attend the school dance with a date. Best friend, Eric Hunter, who is the most popular boy in school, helps him and, to his surprise, Landon wins the election. Landon's father pressures him into running for class president. Landon is more reclusive, which causes some tension in their relationship. Landon's father is not around very much, as he lives in Washington, D.C. His father is a genial, charismatic congressman. Landon lives in the small, religious town of Beaufort, North Carolina.

The remainder of the story takes place when Landon is a 17-year-old high school senior. The story starts with a prologue from Landon Carter at age 57. After her death, Sparks said in the eulogy: '.I suppose I wrote this novel not only so that you could get to know my sister, but so that you would know what a wonderful thing it was that her husband once did for her.' Plot summary His sister's husband proposed marriage to her despite her sickness. And just like Landon and Jamie, never in a thousand years did anyone think someone would ever deeply fall head-over-heels for her. And just like Jamie, she always carried the Bible around with her everywhere she went. For example, his sister, just like Jamie, was never popular at school and always wore an ugly sweater. Although the story is largely fictional, certain parts were based on real experiences. The novel was inspired by Sparks' sister, Danielle Sparks Lewis, who later died of cancer in June 2000. The title A Walk to Remember was taken from one of the tail end pages of the novel: 'In every way, a walk to remember.' The novel is written in first-person, and its narrator is a seventeen-year-old boy, living in the 1950s. Like his first published novel The Notebook, the prologue to A Walk to Remember was written last. He wrote it in North Carolina, which is the setting of the novel. Sparks wrote the manuscripts for A Walk to Remember, his third novel, in the summer of 1999. A Walk to Remember is adapted in the film of the same name. The novel, set in 1958–1959 in Beaufort, North Carolina, is a story of two teenagers who fall in love with each other despite the disparity of their personalities. A Walk to Remember is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released in October 1999.

A walk to remember the notebook