The Notebook

The Notebook is about a man named Noah and a woman named Allie, they both come from different social classes, Noah is poor and Allie is rich. Soon after they fall in love, they are separated by their social differences. Ellie is in town to spend her summer, they both spend an idyllic summer, but one night, a week before Allie is to leave town, she and Noah go to an abandoned house, Noah then tells Allie that he hopes to buy the abandoned house. Allie then tells Noah that the house will be white, with blue shutters, and a room that overlooks the creek so she can paint. The next morning, Allie’s mother tells her that they are leaving, Allie frantically tries to find Noah, but is forced to leave without saying bye. Time passes and Noah buys the house, he re-builds the house according to Allie’s description of that one night that they were together.  Allie starts a life without Noah and Noah never forgets Allie and hopes that she will one day come back, after years they re unite again, and Allie feels she still loves Noah. Time passes and Allie decides to admit to Lon, her new fiancé, that she still loves Noah and wants to be with him. Finally, we see both, Noah and Allie, deeply in love with each other. At the end of the movie, they are very old, and Allie has an illness, the movie ends having both dead peacefully holding each other’s hands.

The theory that applies to this film is Reiss’s Wheel Theory, this theory exemplifies love that develops over a course of time in four main stages: 1) Building rapport 2) Self Revelation 3) Mutual Dependency and 4) Personality Need Fulfillment

 Allie and Noah, both have the interest and fall develop a personal fulfillment.