The+Notebook+-+Visuals



This picture of a white house with blue shutters represents Noah’s devotion to Allie and is a reoccurring symbol of their love throughout the story. When Noah shows Allie this house when they were teenagers, he asked her what she wanted included when he fixed it up. She told him that she wanted a white house with blue shutters and a big porch that wraps around the whole house so they can drink tea and watch the sunset. She also says that she wants a room facing the water so she can paint. He promises her that he’ll do this, and many years later, he does. This is what brings her back to him.

The swan is a symbol of Allie in the book to Noah. When he takes her out to see them in his boat, she asks what they’re doing here and he tells her that he doesn’t know. She asks if they’ll stay and he says that they’ll go back to where they came from. This whole conversation is really just metaphors because Noah doesn’t know why Allie came because she’s getting married, but he does think that she’ll go back to her fiancé.

 A painting is important to the story because painting is what Allie really enjoys doing. She paints a beautiful picture for Noah, and he keeps it even after they’re not together. He hangs on his living room wall after the house is built because he still loves her, and says that the painting reminds him of what a beautiful love they had. Allie wonders why she doesn’t paint anymore with Lon, and realizes that there is something missing from her life. The painting was one of the most influential reasons that Allie ends up with Noah in the end.

 The letters were important to the story because they were the reason Noah and Allie weren’t together their whole lives. When Allie left that summer, she told Noah to write her if he still wanted her. He wrote her for two years, and never got a response, so he moved. Allie never received any of these letters because her mother hid them all from her so that she wouldn’t try to be with someone “not suitable for her.” This was the reason that Allie moved on and met Lon. They had both still loved each other the entire time they were apart.

The thunderstorm was important to the story because Allie and Noah used to watch thunderstorms when they first fell in love. After Allie left, Noah would sit and watch the thunderstorms alone and miss her. When Allie comes back to visit Noah, she realizes she still loves him and they admit their love to each other during a thunderstorm.