Literary Devices:
FORESHADOWING
Foreshadowing is one of the most common literary devices used in the novel.
Some examples of foreshadowing include:
1.) When Landon opens the story with the words that his life changed when he was seventeen years old, he is preparing us for profound events that he’s never forgotten.
2.) When Landon warns the reader that we will laugh and we will cry, he foreshadows the loving relationship that will develop between him and Jamie.
3.) The fact that Jamie has underlined one particular Psalm in her Bible foreshadows that she knows Landon will need those words to carry on in the face of her death.
4.) Chapter one Landon tells the easy death of his evil grandfather, describing that life isn't fair. This foreshadows his fear that such a wonderful person as Jamie could be dying so young of such a terrible disease.
5.) When Jamie gives Landon her mother’s Bible for Christmas, it foreshadows that as many dying people do, she is giving away the things she loves to those she loves the most.
IRONY
Another element that is important to note is irony.
Some examples of irony include:
1.) Jamie gives Landon one restriction if she goes to homecoming with him and that is that he won't fall in love with her. Landon finds it amusing that her condition will ever occur and agrees to promise, not knowing that's exactly what actually occurs.
2.) As winter begins to turn into spring, Landon is struck by how life comes back even as Jamie lays dying.
SYMBOLISM
1.) When Jamie sits on the floor at the orphanage on Christmas Eve with a sleeping child on her lap, she is symbolic of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
2.) Jamie’s mother’s Bible symbolizes her innate goodness and the piece of herself she gives to Landon.
3.) The card drawn by Roger showing a bird soaring above a rainbow symbolizes Jamie’s slow rising to God.
4.) Jamie’s walk down the aisle, “a walk to remember,” symbolizes her strength and her love that is returned tenfold by all those who watch her meet the man she loves.
5.) The walk to remember is literally Jamie’s walk down the aisle to marry Landon, but it is also a metaphor for the journeys we all must take in life to give our lives meaning. Jamie teaches this to all the characters and to the reader.
Foreshadowing is one of the most common literary devices used in the novel.
Some examples of foreshadowing include:
1.) When Landon opens the story with the words that his life changed when he was seventeen years old, he is preparing us for profound events that he’s never forgotten.
2.) When Landon warns the reader that we will laugh and we will cry, he foreshadows the loving relationship that will develop between him and Jamie.
3.) The fact that Jamie has underlined one particular Psalm in her Bible foreshadows that she knows Landon will need those words to carry on in the face of her death.
4.) Chapter one Landon tells the easy death of his evil grandfather, describing that life isn't fair. This foreshadows his fear that such a wonderful person as Jamie could be dying so young of such a terrible disease.
5.) When Jamie gives Landon her mother’s Bible for Christmas, it foreshadows that as many dying people do, she is giving away the things she loves to those she loves the most.
IRONY
Another element that is important to note is irony.
Some examples of irony include:
1.) Jamie gives Landon one restriction if she goes to homecoming with him and that is that he won't fall in love with her. Landon finds it amusing that her condition will ever occur and agrees to promise, not knowing that's exactly what actually occurs.
2.) As winter begins to turn into spring, Landon is struck by how life comes back even as Jamie lays dying.
SYMBOLISM
1.) When Jamie sits on the floor at the orphanage on Christmas Eve with a sleeping child on her lap, she is symbolic of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
2.) Jamie’s mother’s Bible symbolizes her innate goodness and the piece of herself she gives to Landon.
3.) The card drawn by Roger showing a bird soaring above a rainbow symbolizes Jamie’s slow rising to God.
4.) Jamie’s walk down the aisle, “a walk to remember,” symbolizes her strength and her love that is returned tenfold by all those who watch her meet the man she loves.
5.) The walk to remember is literally Jamie’s walk down the aisle to marry Landon, but it is also a metaphor for the journeys we all must take in life to give our lives meaning. Jamie teaches this to all the characters and to the reader.