The Notebook- Connection

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club


                 This quotation connects to a book I've read called The Notebook. the quote is saying that once you realize you have lost everything, you realize that you can dop anything you wish to do. In the book, Noah ends up losing his only love, Allie, when she moves away at the end of the summer.  She was everything to him and he was heartbroken at first and then he realizes that he made a promise to her to fix up a old broken down house. he fixes up the house just like thay said they were going to do it. Since he lost Allie, he has had so much free time to do what they were dreaming of doing. he ended up fixing it to perfection and getting in the newspaper. Allie sees it in the newspaper and goes to visit him. So as a result, he got to see her for the first time in a long time. It was a positive outcome since they got back together, started a family, and grew old together. I think that this was a perfect exmaple for the quote above. It explains that if you lose everything you don't have to stop and drop what your doing. He took his free time to do something huge and ended up getting everything back.