Leminhot ~ Describing London Carter

London Carter

Fifty-seven-year-old Landon Carter narrates the novel, reflecting on events from 40 years in the past. The novel opens with a Prologue, in which the older Landon, living in the same North Carolina town as he did at the age of 17, stands near the Baptist church that figures prominently in the novel and gets himself in the mindset of his 17-year-old self. The story begins in 1958 and is, Landon tells us, both joyful and sad.

Seventeen-year-old Landon is a senior at Beaufort High School, which collaborates each year with Southern Baptist Church on a Christmas play called The Christmas Angel. The play, written by Reverend Hegbert Sullivan, the minister of the church, tells the story of a man who is so grief-stricken over the death of his wife (while giving birth to their only child) that he is not much of a father to his child. An angel appears to the man, and she admonishes him to be a better father; she also performs a small miracle for the family on Christmas morning. The popular play, performed in the local playhouse, features seniors from the high school.

London is a teenager whose life has been filled with pride and arrogance toward others. Before he met with Jamie, he did not understand the meaning of life and love. He only view as a game and love as a word only. Jamie after he met with him a new understanding of life and a sense of compassion. And study to be useful for someone who she loved and playing the brave to stand anything that will happen. He was aware that love has changed everything that was in his life and himself.

Jamie Sullivan

She is the real angel of the story, not just a character in the school play. She is depicted as a rather strange young girl who wears her long hair in a bun and dons the same sweater and plaid skirt almost every day. Since they have all been children, her classmates have made fun of her for........... The seventeen year-old girl daughter of a Baptist minister who is dying of cancer, but who impacts on the lives of everyone around her. Jamie is a woman who is innocent and humble; he's always struggled with himself in any case. She is a woman who is very cheerful and always rejoice, walking in the word of God, and sprinkle with others. She is dying of a rare form of leukemia and has only a few months to live.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.