How far could one go in the name of love? When all else fails, will love suffice?
In life, one can only live at the present moment. All things that have passed are gone and can never be brought back. Cherished moments are best kept in one’s storehouse of memories.
Emotion is usually considered to be a feeling about or reaction to certain important events or thoughts. An individual also may have a mixture of both pleasant and unpleasant emotions. People enjoy feeling pleasant emotions such as love, happiness, and contentment. They often try to avoid feeling unpleasant emotions, such as loneliness, worry, and grief. However, people are sometimes not fully aware of their own emotions. Although most people believe they know what an emotion is, psychologists have not yet agreed on a definition.
Individuals communicate their emotions by means of words, a variety of other sounds, facial expressions, and gestures. People learn ways of showing some of their emotions from members of their society, though heredity may determine some emotional behavior. Research has shown that different isolated peoples show emotions by means of similar facial expressions.
Marriage is the relationship between a man and a woman who have made a legal agreement to live together. When a man and woman marry, they become husband and wife. Marriage is also an important religious ceremony in many of the world’s religions.
Most couples decide to marry because they love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together. A man and a woman who marry hope to share a special sexual relationship and a permanent romantic attraction. But each hopes the other will always be a close friend as well. Each also expects the other to help with many problems and to share certain responsibilities. These responsibilities include earning for a living, budgeting money, paying bills, preparing meals, and taking care of a home.
Most couples who contemplate on marriage plan to have children and to raise them together. A husband and wife are required by law to protect and care for their children. Marriage thus serves as the basis of family life.
The movie, The Notebook, gave a whole new meaning to the aforementioned descriptions. Theirs was a kind of love beyond written words and articulation. It was an extraordinary affair that endured the test of time and of circumstances.
The movie was set in a contemporary nursing facility, where an old man that goes by the name of Noah, but known as Duke, starts to read a love story from a notebook to a lady stricken by Alzheimer’s disease. The old lady’s sickness has reached stage three. The characters in the story are young lovers Noah and Allie.
Prior to her Alzheimer’s heaping op, Allie authored the love story she shared with the love of her life, Noah. She wrote their story in a notebook and ordered Noah to read it all to her when the day comes when her memory fails, and she remembers nothing and no one else. She told Noah that she will remember them all well as she starts to listen to the story of their love.
(Scene from the movie The Notebook. About.com, “The Notebook movie photos. 2008)
The story starts on the sixth day of June in1940. Allie Hamilton and her good friend Sara are having fun at one of the carnivals located in North Carolina. They were just seventeen then, enjoying their youth. Allie was from an aristocrat family of the South. Her parents own a plantation and she gets almost everything her heart desires.
Noah Calhoun, for his part, is also in the same carnival as Allie with his friend, Finn. Noah is not in anyway near the social class Allie belongs to. He is just a plain country boy with little money or fortune to brag about.
The carnival in Seabrook is where the two first met. For Noah, the moment he laid his eyes on Allie, he knew deep inside that it was love. Allie did not feel the same way, though. She even tried to ignore Noah’s presence as she is not attracted to him the same way as he is to her.
Noah, who is not someone who easily gives up, tried again to win a date with Allie. He even dared to let go of the hand that supports him as he hangs from a Ferris wheel just to make Allie say yes and finally go out with him. Allie unbuckled her belt to get Noah back up. The two eventually ended up spending the nights together and enjoying their company in the process. They went out in the company of their respective friends, Sara and Finn.
While spending time with each other, they both learn more than a thing or two about each other’s personalities. Noah discovered that Allie lives a hectic and structured life and she barely has time left to spare. Nonetheless, there is that part in her that longs to be free. Noah liked that attribute in her. The whole summer was made more enjoyable having each other around.
One week prior to Allie’s scheduled departure, she and Noah went to a forsaken house that came to be known at The Windsor Plantation (McLeod, 2008). It was during that night when the two shared what they would plan the house to look like in the future. The guy confessed that he wanted to purchase the old house. The two fantasized about their future together at the confines of the house they dream to own someday.
It is a charming account of a romance told in a convincing narration. The plea effortlessly progresses with unrestrictive dating sequences as well as disclosures which give details of the couple unraveling main concerns that strike too close to the comforts of the home. It is a bittersweet account as the movie is a stunning depiction of young love coming from both ends of the social ladder but living at the same town in the earlier part of the year 1940 (McLeod, 2008).
The guy only gains forty cents for every hour he renders on his job. Allie, on her part has the whole world under her feet. Things do come so easy for him. While Noah exerts as much effort as he can as a logger, the good life is still never come so close for the taking.
Nonetheless, both of them give a measure of profound magnificence to each other. While Noah recites literary masterpieces, Allie gives life to usual things through her art of painting.
All the peculiar adventures he introduces supply those essential moments that display the weird manner individuals may act when the magic of love happens in their lives. As the summer season nearly comes to an end, the lives of the young lovers are interrupted. Allie is ordered by her parents to complete her studies in New York, at Sarah Lawrence. Not so long after, Noah is chosen to go to Europe to fight at the time of the Second World War (McLeod, 2008).
Consequentially, the two are forced to part ways. Noah, still trying not to cut all ties, wrote 365 letters to her lady love (McLeod, 2008). Sadly, Allie’s mother never made way for these letters to reach her daughter’s end. They found companionship in the warmth of other people in their desperation of not being able to win each other back again.
One can only marvel on what the future has laid in store for each and every individual. The two has a kind of marriage that may be defined as calm. Allie was stricken by a disease that made her loved one completely a stranger to her. However, there where moments where one may be able to recognize that particular spark that makes it seem like the two found love the second time around. Nonetheless, as fate would have it, this moment will not last that long. As time flies by, circumstances serves as a reminder that Allie’s memory slowly deteriorates and she will not be able to remember those people who matter most to her, and it is not her choice.
Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder characterized by loss of memory and judgment (McLeod, 2008). It rarely occurs before the age of 40, but frequency increases as people grow older. It affects 20 – 30% of people 85 years old or older (McLeod, 2008).
In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, people forget recent events but can recall past events clearly. They may try to conceal their memory loss by writing notes to themselves to remember names and other details (Alzheimer’s Association, 2008). As the disease progresses, the memory loss steadily increases and other abilities become impaired, including judgment, speech, and muscle coordination (Alzheimer’s Association, 2008). Outbursts of rage or tears often occur, usually for no apparent reason. In severe cases, the victims become incapable of caring for themselves. The disease gradually weakens he body, making it subject to various infections. Most victims die from pneumonia or other infections (Alzheimer’s Association, 2008).
Alzheimer’s disease results from the progressive destruction of brain cell (Alzheimer’s Association, 2008)s. The cause of this destruction is unknown. The brain tissue of Alzheimer’s patients shows an excess of aluminum and a deficiency of a certain protein (Alzheimer’s Association, 2008). But physicians do not know if these abnormalities cause the disease or are effects of it. Research indicates that heredity plays a major role in 25 – 35 % of the cases that begin before age 70 (McLeod, 2008). Heredity seems less important in cases that begin at older ages. Some scientists suspect that infectious agents called prions may be partly responsible fro the disease (McLeod, 2008)).
Alzheimer’s disease cannot be cured, but proper care can help minimize its effects. Doctors recommend adequate rest, relief from stress, and immediate treatment of infections or other physical ailments that may weaken the body. In experimental trials, a drug called tetrahydroaminoacridine, or THA, has helped control the symptoms of the disease in some patients (Alzheimer’s Association, 2008).
The brain injury caused by the disease can render an individual to act in a strange, stressful, or even mysteriously comical ways. Apprehension, hostility, opposition, impatience, agitation, screaming, suspicious allegation, and restlessness are some of the most usual manifestations of problematic conduct associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Strive not to take these types of conduct personally.
Since these warning signs are brought about by an injured brain, the individual stricken by the disease is not able to control himself and is not behaving in this manner on purpose. It is very crucial not to respond to a loved one as if he were completely functional, although he is enjoying a good day and appears to be much like his usual self.
In reference to a recent research conducted by Chicago’s Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, it is generally the primary health care provider, in the person of a spouse or an elder offspring, who suffer the impact of any violent flare-up (McLeod, 2008). Nearly 80% of stubborn conducts happen at the time of personal events in everyday life, like putting on clothes or otherwise, bathing as well as heading towards the restroom (McLeod, 2008). However disastrous response may also occur as an effect of abrupt variations in the surroundings or pressures such as mishaps or family misunderstandings.
Mills – Peninsula Hospital Wellness Center’s Suzanne Alexander offers the recommendation on dealing with both tenacity and violence (McLeod, 2008). According to her, initially, do not take the behavior personally. One must be reminded that such action is not intended to inflict harm, it is purely unintentional. From there, see the defiant conduct as a form of nonverbal message the patient is trying to deliver. Struggle to decipher what the patient is trying to convey and eventually address the matter raised. Alexander is a social worker at this institution located at the Bay Area of San Francisco, California (McLeod, 2008).
Usually the conflict it tooted in apprehension, as the Alzheimer’s Association reported (McLeod, 2008). They might feel embarrassed by their failure to react to such feeling whenever requested to carry out something they are not able to comprehend. During the earlier stages of the disease, patients can possibly become annoyed at any slight implication that they are not anymore completely capable, since the veracity of what is going on to them is already way too frightening to accept (McLeod, 2008).
There is nothing more of value in this world than being able to give love to a person with one’s whole heart and soul. That certainly gives meaning and a lot of value in the life he leads. In all the ways that matter, that thing is more than enough than any other sums of riches one can get a hold of.
Noah’s experience in taking care of Allie in the times when their relationship was tested when she was stricken by the disease was certainly something extraordinarily impressive. He never thought of Allie as another person even though her memory can not afford her to remember who Noah is in her life. He made her feel loved nonetheless.
In sickness and even in health, Noah’s love for Allie proved to be unconditional. He provided support whenever he needed someone to hold on to. He was there without her even asking. He stayed and endured whatever challenges that came their way, no matter what it takes and how hard it can be.
Noah on his part reads to her their love story to bring back the memories that her sickness robs away from her. Reading the account from the notebook is his way of trying to help her remember, even just bits and pieces of the love they once knew. His simple gesture speaks so much o f the love he is very much willing to share beyond the heartaches of the plight fate has brought them.
(Noah reading their love story to Allie. About.com, “The Notebook movie photos. 2008)
Her family fills the void that her sickness creates. Whenever she sees her children and grandchildren, they are introduced to them as if they were total strangers. While she has been constantly reminded of the role these people play in her life, her sickness does not afford her the recollection of knowing who they are.
The disease more often than not arouses despair. A large number of Americans think that it hits all of a sudden, is unpreventable, and that the moment it is detected, afflicted persons immediately drops into the quicksand of a life of death.
Nonetheless theirs is a love that was profound and lasting, the marriage they have is one that is resilient. One of the many reasons that caused him to love her more was her knack at living in her imagination, as well as reveling life aided by the unconceivable power of the mind.
It is an overpowering romantic account of a love illustrating the matrimonial vow to love one’s partner in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, and only death can take them away from each other. This astonishingly charming depiction of two individuals who are really in love with one another is nearly beaten by the supremacy of love they both share. However, witnessing their experience is reminiscent of listening to the music most people are already familiar with and has grown to love nonetheless does not mind listening to all over again, much so if the music is played well. In this particular portrayal, every note played is listened to and enjoyed every second.
Distinct from most love accounts depicted in the movie screens, this takes its audience further than the sheer introduction of a genuine love and transports them towards its conclusion. At the same time as most people has grown to familiarize themselves with marriages that impulsively concludes in divorce, the one illustrated in this particular account articulates the manner where individuals are able to remain committed to one another all their lives, come what may. Undoubtedly, this an account that evidently pronounce matrimony, love, as well as constant commitment shared by man and his wife.
The story illustrates that, just like any loving relationship, things do not usually go as faultless and that is for sure. Allie’s parents are not in favor of Noah being the boyfriend of their daughter. They know that Noah will not be able to give their daughter the kind of life she has grown accustomed to. Noah, not coming from their social end of the ladder, is not the picture of a husband to be for their daughter.
Nonetheless, the young couple did not let this issue come between them. While they have found companionship in the warmth of other lovers, their love still remained. As if not enough to prove their undying love, the disapproval of Allies parents is not the only problem their love is bound to confront in the future. By a sudden twist of fate, another challenge lies at the end of the road for the love story of these two. Allie was diagnosed to have Alzheimer’s. This conditioned proved to be another instance that tested the strength of the love the two have for each other, most especially on Noah. But then again, their love proved to be as powerful as even sickness and death is not able to destroy it.
(Rachel McAdams as Allie. About.com, “The Notebook movie photos. 2008)
The chemistry shared by the lead actors, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams is not the sole asset of this star – studded production. Nick Cassavetes, as the film director engaged broad talent in almost all spheres of the movie. He even casted Gena Rowlands, his very own mother to play the role of the older Allie. Jeremy Leven confessed that he did some alterations on the original story to perfectly adapt it on the big screen. Nonetheless, Leven appears to have sincerely encapsulated the spirit of the original plot of Nicholas Sparks (IMDb.com, Inc., 2008). Exchange of words, outfits, illumination, and camera work completely render the film as a pleasurable and satisfying experience.
In the midst of a representation of a love so powerful, stable, and eternal, it is hard not to recall the love preached by Jesus Christ. The love of Christ, as the one celebrated in the movie is the kind that is for all eternity. Moreover, the Son of the Almighty loves his brothers and sisters unconditionally. He requests them to acquaint with him individually and thoroughly, not solely in their life on earth but even beyond. The worldly romances might not come close to the ideal as the kind of love the couple shared in the story nevertheless, there is that one a great love constantly handed to each and everyone by the Almighty through His Son, Jesus Christ.
(Ryan Gosling as Noah. About.com, “The Notebook movie photos. 2008)
The Notebook can effortlessly reverberate with elder lovers who have been with the company of each other for a long time. With anticipation, it may be able to encourage the younger generation to attempt to live in this way. If one aspires to support a motion picture that considerately upholds and regards genuine love, then this is a perfect choice.
(Young Allie and Noah. About.com, “The Notebook movie photos. 2008)
It is fascinating that it did not concentrated so much on the time Noah and Allie had with each other instead, it placed its focus on the time they had away from the one they love. It illustrated one too many concerns happening among young individuals, such as parental intervention, depriving them of the right to navigate their own lives, concealing facts, and even doing everything in their power to cut all ties that bound the youthful lovers. While there is some truth in the saying that mothers knows what is best for their children, but they do not always have to insist their own choice. There are mother who likes to believe that while certain guys measure up to their expectations, there are those who no matter how hard they try, simply do not fit in the qualifications. Most mothers will never be in favor of their children marrying someone who can not offer an assurance that their child will be living a life she has been accustomed to, it is usual, but some things must be taken into consideration here.
Allie’s mother has kept Noah’s letters from her until the latter finally gave up trying to maintain the communication between them. Allie also ended up thinking that Noah has indeed has given up all the ties that bound them. They both thought that the other have fallen out of love. In the end, Allie’s mother finally gave her daughter the letters addressed to the latter. This happened during the crucial time when her daughter is about to decide on that most important matter that will determine her fate.
The Notebook portrayed passionate youthful love and ardor. It even illustrated how two people are able to deal with with the challenges they face. It showed the manner the two finally appear to acknowledge their destiny and move on, until as circumstances would have it they are bound to see each other again. The meeting where the girl was found engaged to another man, while the guy was up to something with another girl, someone who is hard to offend.
That meeting undoubtedly stimulated not only memories of days gone by, but as well as the bitter taste and the love that was left hanging. Moreover love struck like they were, witnessing the dreams of the ages gone by being realized, similar to the house Noah tried his best put together from a rundown structure – all in its magnificence and grandeur at the moment, the manner they imagined it to be, they had their own share of mistakes too for they failed to remember that they were already committed to their respective partners.
For a moment, Allie had her own inner battle. She is engaged at the same time she is seeking to maintain that commitment she made. Noah, on his part, out of disappointment conceivably attempted too hard to knock some sense into her head. He made her actually take a break and ponder upon what she really wanted to squeeze out of the life she lives.
It is more than a tale of youthful love. It also dealt with the kind of love that has grown beyond the marriage, togetherness, companionship, persistence, affectionate love until they turn gray at the same time take comfort in being in each other’s company until they breathe their last.
Everyday, their love story is told to the Alzheimer’s stricken Allie. It was an account of the love that is certainly close to both their hearts, but only Noah know this to be true at the disease has taken it away from Allie now. Nevertheless, it provokes the old lady’s thoughts more than any medicine or science can ever afford for her. While the story is told, the descriptions of the love they shared, the youthful love they enjoyed amidst the challenges and troubles seems to comprise the elements of a larger scheme that Allie restlessly attempts to decipher.
It is a blissful southern fired love story, unfolded by the author in a deeply theatrical manner, with large movements as well as an eager observance of sentimentality. The film adaptation of the novel is familiar to cornball portrayal of love, but the director also came up with an inquisitive preference and allowed his younger characters look for the heart of the sequences by themselves, by means of fervent creativity.
In all sincerity, the outcome is appealing, at the same time, it is extremely disturbing. Conventionally, romantic flicks of this kind present a well controlled kind of chest pounding and heartbreak, which crushes its viewers firmly through such treatment. The director, Nick Cassavetes is going for the sincerity within the young couple’s ardor. The portrayal of Allie by Rachel McAdams flawlessly encapsulates the disappointments of a trouble-free life and one that nourishes the soul.
Sophisticated moviegoers will have less difficulty trying to decipher where all this is leading to, nevertheless, the journey is truly a reward on its own. The portrayal or both Garner and Rowland renders its audience a depiction of an old couple that is neither cheaply sappy nor overly sentimental. The couple is rather completely realized individuals who undergo a complete range of sentiments as well as desires. They deliver a soulful facade to the purgatory or retreat and nursing facilities.
The burning flames of young passion is one of the commonly banal themes in motion pictures, nonetheless it is still substantially appealing. Youth is that period in a person’s life when he is bursting with vigor and anticipation. It is those times when he seems to fear missing out on something when he allows his eyes to blink. The affectionate radiance of mature love is atypical in motion pictures and possibly even in real life. Youthful love, though usually passionate, normally fall short in going that extra mile in order to stay true to the matrimonial vow of until death do they part. It is one to witness young couple holding each other’s hands, looking reflectively into their partner’s eyes. And without a doubt, it is another thing to witness the same scene in lovers who are in their 70s or even 80s.
It is a sympathetic, sensitively rich adaptation that inquires about the queries concerning the subjects of life as well as love. Through it, the audience witness that immense love, reminiscent of unfathomable faith, is forged on uncertainty, ordeal as well as difficulties. Only on that moment will it carry out its genuine and most timeless rewards.
The story starts at the final part. Every waking day his deteriorating health permits, Noah walks down the lobby of the nursing facility and goes inside an old lady’s room. The old lady’s mind is puzzled by the disease she’s battling, but as Noah recites from the handwritten leaves of an old notebook, science is challenged as the old lady’s memory is ignited by the ageless beauty of the love they once knew.
Ignorant of parental intervention, the couple is both distressed at the apparent neglect by the other. The two gradually reconstructed their lives away from each other, disturbed by the reminiscences of the love they shared.
Noah endured his stint for the third army of Patton at the time of the Second World War. He went home to purchase and rebuild their dream house, at the same time as confronting the ghost that Allie’ absence left.
Allie on her part obtains her degree. She then ended up being a volunteer nurse before embracing the kind of life her parents planned out for her. The moment when all optimism appears to have been gone, fate interferes and the couple has been afforded yet another chance to love.
Noah’s father is a picture of altruism and kindness of spirit. He taught his son how to put together a relationship one recollection at a time by means of giving out life’s simple pleasures. He also instilled in Noah a fondness of literature by letting him recite them to surmount a language impediment. Noah’s love for poetry is adopted by his lady love, and their communal passion for articulating their emotions in script turned out to be the life support of the love they shared. In the modern world, it is genuinely invigorating to come across a story that advocates the influence of literature.
The mother finally made amends with her daughter by finally letting Allie read the love letters intended for her at a situation the former found such confession calls for. At that particular point, Allie’s mother shared her own account of life during her youth. It aided her daughter to decide on which path to take.
Noah’s model of putting his wife before all else is an encouragement to a younger generation who is educated to place their personal needs on top of the list. He even made it obvious that love is really tough. It is a daily task and that disagreements do not have to loosen it. In the end, Noah gave up his beloved abode and private life to live in a separate wing at the nursing facility where Allie stays. He did so not for health purposes, but to permit himself regular access to the love of his life.
One more moving message here is that each and every person’s life is of value. Those in their old age, as well as the mentally impaired have a lot more to offer than meets the eye. They are not prepared to be classified by society into the unseen sphere of shadow individuals. This is revealed not just in the relationship of the elder Noah and Allie, but as well as in the sympathetic treatment they were given by the health care providers from the nursing facility who conceptualized innovative means to have room for the patient’s emotional as well as physical requirements.
The speaker, remarking on the physician’s findings of Allie’s Alzheimer’s disease comments that science can only deliver help up to a certain extent, and from that end, God comes into the picture. He also mentioned about the miracle that loves comes with in the package. Even as the couple never talked about spiritual concerns, the love they have developed into the picture of the Almighty’s idyllic articulated in the Holy Bible.
Several others will regard the movie off as still one of the many sensitively scheming as well as excessively sentimental chick flick. Except that since it appears so warmly at the old lovers suffering from the challenges brought about by the disease, others discover themselves fascinated by it nevertheless. They eventually see themselves placing their own persons into the narrative at the same time as giving life to the sentimentalities that surfaced therein.
Also, it might also be viewed as a suitable manifestation of the profound and enduring love shared by those other than Allie and Noah, who share the similar fate. Their love and promise for each other surpassed not just the physical but as well as the emotional abyss that manifested the disease. Noah’s unwavering love for his wife nourished them along the way.
The author regards his novel as an image of the Almighty’s love for his children. The theme speaks about a love that is both eternal and unconditional. At the same time, it moves into the holiness of matrimony as well as the splendor one may be able to discover in a loving commitment. Even though that metaphor gets much more than small muddies by sex outside the sanctity of marriage, the couple eventually recognize the full promise of a more mature love.
The majority romantic flicks only honor the frenzied, impulsive flush of youthful love, offering it as the summit of the relationship prior to either staying on the complacent area of stability or rolling down the slimy gradient of dysfunction. The Notebook illustrates an exceptional perception of the variation of love the Almighty requests from married people, a one – shot profound familiarity of the spirit, uttered without restrictions at the same time rising in power and beauty as time flies by.
The role of the couple’s as well as their closeness will experience change as all what relationships are bound to do as time go by. In spite of the arrival of Alzheimer’s, there still exist aspects of the relationship that are left to be fostered. However tensed and restricted, one may still be able to fix his gaze upon the positive attributes to the tested relationship (O’Boyle, 2008).
Each and every person, despite age or capabilities, is in need for contact, love and yearning for a companion in life. The need for contact is very human. Also, it is that which personalizes the kind of care given to Alzheimer’s patients or to anyone else.
A person’s reaction to touch has a lot to do with his background as well as the image he has of himself. It may give the message of compassion other than sexual desire. Moreover, it can express comfort, security, or relaxation amongst other emotions (O’Boyle, 2008).
Their love transcends every changing season. It is as timeless as eternity, as enduring as life eternal.
The substance in Spark’s The Notebook will by no means be mistaken with a fictional masterpiece however one way or another it manages to stay convincing owing to a cast that causes it audience yearn to consider that there is such a thing. This particular movie examines the basis and conclusion of an ardent love affair involving two different individuals, culturally as well as emotionally.
It is narrated in flashback progression and is ultimately successful because even though the audience is well aware that the lovers will in the end, come together, the real emotional power invested in both Noah and Allie is there, very much felt. It is one of the many films that superficially appears moribund and unsurprising, nonetheless has that special it factor coming off to its advantage.
The moment its end begins to disclose, the audience is stunned to find out that the movie has indeed stirred them. It is certainly two tales rolled in one exceptional account of the budding young love that ought to endure the adversity as well as the tale of a more matured love story that endures the damage of the disease that has stricken one of them.
It is a story about a person’s resolve to stay connected to the love of his life amidst the progressive Alzheimer’s that renders him a stranger to the one person that matters the most to him. They have spent a total of 50 beautiful years together. In their old age, they have come to call the local nursing facility as their new found home. The old man tries to establish the link to their past by reading to the lady the account of the life and love they shared.
In the story, the man’s commitment to his lady love echoes the difficult reality many family as well as professional care givers confronts as they deal with the extensive and lingering progression of the disease she has been afflicted of. Notwithstanding the dehumanization the sickness appears to inflict, loved ones sustain a human and compassionate yearning to remain connected.
However, the extensive and lingering progression of the disease takes its toll on patients as well as their loved ones and friends. Care givers may just require more expressive and shared support while they take charge caring for family members afflicted by the disease.
In anticipation of the end of their existence, sufferers of Alzheimer’s require and ought to have value, care, and treatment to deal with warning signs and sustain comfort. It is vital to acknowledge that patients suffering from very advanced stages of Alzheimer’s are nevertheless responsive individuals who are conscious of their surroundings and still warrant consolation measures as well as inspiration.
Organizations facilitating care for such patients will gradually confront the requests of persons dying from Alzheimer’s, which is in the end a terminal illness. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia. It accounts for more of less two – thirds of all cases recorded (O’Boyle, 2008). Dementia is a syndrome obtained wherein one’s recollection and cognitive role deteriorates, ultimately leaving a person totally reliant on other people (O’Boyle, 2008).
Although every person suffering from Alzheimer’s will ultimately meet death even before they may be able to regain their health, and while a large number of them will meet death because of the complications brought about by the disease, care givers and the community usually overlook Alzheimer’s as a terminal illness. For the reasons that persons suffering from the disease may live with it for three up to seven years, providers of health care may not find it easy to determine when a person has already reached the critical stages of Alzheimer’s.
At the same time as Alzheimer’s develops, a person’s ability to take charge of himself becomes impossible. He ultimately turns to his loved ones for assistance for he is left unable to attend to his own needs. Most often than not, their family members come to their aid.
The scale, occurrence, and relentlessness of cognitive insufficiencies and problem conducts related with the disease subject these health care providers under physically challenging and constant stressors. Care giving for people stricken with the disease may result in adverse communal role modifications, despair, apprehension, and tensed familial relations. Health care providers usually come to the realization that life is unruly at the same time as it is overpowering.
Alzheimer’s disease tests the inspiration as well as the commitment of those who aspires to upgrade the quality of life of those persons stricken by it. A small amount of pioneering plans as well as course of action schemes already shed light on how to offer improved treatment for the end – stage Alzheimer’s stricken persons.
The question that asks who someone’s own person really is as it has always been the existential issue deliberated by logical thinkers for centuries. The interpretations, values as well as recollection of the totality of all past life events define a person. It is that recollection of past life events, be it true or otherwise, vague or precise, is where one reaches from for purposes of self characterization. Every waking day, it is that recollection that reminds him of his own person. So now, what is the future of that self the moment one’s recollection of his previous life experiences starts to wither, disfigure and eventually render to be unreliable? (Lee, 2003).
At the present moment, society sets undue emphasis on one’s control of sensible judgment and memory. As a consequence, dementias, Alzheimer’s disease in particular, for which over a prolonged period of time incrementally strip Alzheimer’s stricken person of the very same functions, bring up several problems. In what way are people to examine and assess persons denied of what some regard as the most essential capacities of every human being? (Post, 2000).
Even when the disease steals from someone the life he once conceived to be good and beautiful, some people are still able to squeeze out love from the bitterness of the ruins it leaves behind. It provides the reassurance and stability in the midst of the uncertainty it can give.
What society educates one on the subject of love is usually that kind of love that is not yet weathered and made a lot wiser by time, young love that is. Music as well as motion pictures, and even literature for that matter, present the rupture and infidelity, the gasping for air as well as the cries that comes in loving.
It shed light on the relationship that usually grows among people stricken by Alzheimer’s, novel connections, as what some would choose to refer to them, as well as the manner in which the yearning for intimacy refuses to go away even when the sickness robs a lot from oneself.
While love when time is still young is about wanting to feel happiness for oneself, matured love is all about desiring to seek happiness for someone else instead. At least, that is just but one of the many ways to look at the picture. Also it is not for the reason alone that relationships are weathered through enduring time and keeping collective recollections even though it all comprises the whole package, the same as the apathy the researchers refer to as the familiarity effect, define as that which keeps two persons from living a lingering commitment.
While one ages, he starts to accept that for good times and bad, things are never to last for eternity. He realizes that the worse times pass by, and, in like manner, good times do comes to an end. Nonetheless, as he lives through such situations, he begins to acknowledge that they become more valuable and richer.
Besides, to include in Noah Calhoun’s striking resume of traits, the audience discovers that he is indeed a sensitive man. Nowadays, for a number of weird logic, most men out there have begun to recognize sensitivity as an indication of weakness. In an attempt to come out as tough, these men decline to articulate themselves. They veer away from that has something to do with the arts, and they are not to be seen crying at any time, for any reason. This in entirety finds its foundation from a culture that imparts on them that such things are feminine in nature and therefore an unacceptable conduct for the men.
He was the kind of man who did not embrace this superficial outlook. The audience took notice that with Noah’s father, he recites literary works. He essentially happened to value this art form and distinguish its worth. Noah did not mature with an uninformed way of thinking, and this allowed him to develop into a better individual. Armed with his sensitivity, he did not have to suppress all of his emotions to eventually explode, like in the case of many other men out there.
Moving further, the audience once again identifies his sensitive side the moment his father passed away. He made it a point to drop by habitually to offer him some flowers. At some times, he leaves a note on his father’s grave. Night after night, Noah took a minute in remembrance of his father. He recites a prayer to the one man who taught him most of the things he needed to know. From his father, Noah learned the whole lot of the things that really mattered.
By means of his behavior, he showed love in a sensitive style. Noah did not only remember his father nonchalantly every so often, rather he lovingly offers flowers at his grave and rendered prayers for the eternal repose of his soul.
Another remarkable illustration of the male character’s sensitivity is seen in his dealings at the later part of his life. The audience is well aware that Noah constantly visits Allie in her room. Until now that they are in the late years of their life, Noah still looks at his wife with so much affection. The very act of reading the contents of the notebook to his ill wife explains that Noah is a sensitive man since he watchfully took time to account these valued moments. It takes a sensitive man to do all that he has done. In all certainty, Noah is one man who possesses the pleasing trait of sensitivity.
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Pictures
The Notebook Movie Photos. About.com. (2004). Retrieved May 14, 2008, from http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/blthenotebookpicsa.htm.
Noah reading their love story to Allie. About.com. (2004). Retrieved May 14, 2008, from http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/blthenotebookpicsa.htm.
Rachel McAdams as Allie. About.com. (2004). Retrieved May 14, 2008, from from http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/blthenotebookpicsa.htm.
Ryan Gosling as Noah. About.com. (2004). Retrieved May 14, 2008 from, from http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/blthenotebookpicsa.htm.
Young Allie and Noah. (2004). Retrieved May 14, 2008 from, from http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/blthenotebookpicsa.htm.
