The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks Samantha Whalley.

Title: The Wedding What is your book’s genre? Write it here: Realistic Fiction What is it? In this novel, the main character ‘s wife has fallen out of love with him and it’s all his fault. He will do anything to save their marriage and make her fall in love all over again. Example: My sisters keeper by Jodi Picoult Example: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Example: Don’t you dear read this, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix Attribute: Conflict makes this book a realistic fiction. Attribute: the main character tries to fix his relationship with his wife, after it falls apart, this is realistic fiction. Attribute: This novel is a realistic fiction because the main character faces challenges that real people go through all the time.

Attribute: Conflict makes this story a realistic fiction novel. It’s heartbreaking to think that your wife may not love you, and that night, after Jane had carried the perfume up to our bedroom, I sat on the couch for hours, wondering how this situation had come to pass. (7) The easy mood between us lasted until we finished dinner and began to clear the table. Then, slowly, almost imperceptibly at first, the quick banter between us gave way more stilted conversation, punctuated by longer pauses. By the time we’d start4d to clean the kitchen, we had retreated into a familiar dialogue, in which the most animated sound came not from either of us, but from the scraping of plates in the kitchen. (83) The wedding was all I hoped it would be. I’ll never forget the hushed excitement of the crowd or the way people craned their necks to see my daughters making their way down the aisle; I’ll never forget how my hands bean to shake when I heard the first chords of the “wedding march” or how radiant Jane looked as she was escorted down the aisle by her father. (269)

Attribute: the main character tries to fix his relationship with his wife after it falls apart. This is realistic fiction. ‘I was under no illusions that any if these remedies would magically restore Jane's passion for me, nor did I take a short-term view of the matter. if it had taken 29 years to drift apart, I knew that a few weeks of effort was simply the beginning of a long process of rapprochement. (33) Were we the only couple with this problem? Or was it common in all long marriages, an inevitable function of time? Logic seemed to infer it was the latter, yet it nonetheless pained me to realize that her levity would be gone the moment she hung up the phone. Instead of easy banter, we’d speak in platitudes and the magic would be gone, and I couldn’t bear another discussion of the weather. (89) ‘it took a few seconds, but a look of comprehension slowly began to dawn on Jane’s face. And when she fully grasped what was happening- what this weekend was truly all about- she stared at me in wonder and disbelief. “My wedding?” Her voice was soft, almost breathless. I nodded. “the wedding I should have given you a long time ago.” (267)

Attribute: This novel is realistic fiction because the main character faces challenges that real people go through all the time. “occasionally I find myself standing beneath the trellis that Noah built after his marriage. Allie had loved flowers, and Noah had planted a rose garden in the shape of concentric hearts that were visible from the bedroom window and surrounded a formal, three tiered fountain.” (44) “I sat on the couch half a room away, listening with half an ear. Jane and I used to walk and talk for hours,but now there were others who seemed to have taken my place.” (89) “heat seemed to scald the soles of my feet as I walked through the parking lot. In the distance, buildings looked as if they were made of liquid, and I could feel my shirt tacking itself to my back” (181)

EVALUATION: Is The Wedding a good example of a realistic fiction? Nicholas Sparks shows us a set of events that happen to typical people. He shows us about the up and downs of marriage and relationships. He put a lot of details, descriptions, and emotions into this story. All of which was very believable. The story starts out not so happily and is rocky throughout the story. Fortunately the ending was amazing and very well thought out. It also was a happily ever after ending. Nicholas Sparks has shown us a good example of a realistic fiction novel.