The Influence of Family and Faith on Nicholas Sparks’s Novels
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Nicholas Sparks is an American novelist, whose novels are inspired by his own life. All his novels insist that people cannot live without love and that people may even die if there is no love in their life. Sparks’s own life and his family’s faith, past and present, provide the foundation for most of his fictitious creations. As a Catholic, he went on in life to find his true love, a woman by the name of Cathy who also belonged to the same faith. In his memoir, Sparks describes his wife: “Like me, she was Catholic and went to church every Sunday. She was also a middle child, though one of four. Like me, she had an older brother and a younger sister. Her parents, like mine, were poor before attaining middleclass status, had never been divorced, and shared the same anniversary” (191). Nicholas and Cathy Sparks’s complementary faith and life experiences ultimately formed a lasting union between them and no doubt their faith and experiences form the pages of every one of Sparks’s novels.Love
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