The Brain and the Heart

While Dawson was driving back home, he remembered he left Tuck`s letter at his porch. It was getting pretty late, and Dawson knew his cousins were still around. It was a dangerous, stupid choice to go back. His guts were telling him to not turn the car around, but he did. Meanwhile, Amanda got to the hospital and saw her husband; he had some bruises and looked tiered. He told her he was fine, but Jared, their 19 year-old-son was not. He was seeing a cardiologist. The doctor said Jared needed surgery, and he needed it NOW, or else he would die. The whole thing was overwhelming. Back to Dawson`s life, he got back to Oriental when he saw the man in the windbreaker, he saw the ghost. Dawson decided to follow him; his path let him to a bar, where he saw Alan, Alan Bonner. Dr. David Bonner`s son, but he was in serious trouble, Ted was pointing a gun to his face and was stepping on his neck. Suddenly, the oil rig worker understood, the ghost was the doctor and led him to save his kid. As Dawson was getting closer to the bar`s door, the sirens of the sheriff were sounding in the background, and that was the last ever sound Dawson heard. Ted shot him right in between his eyes.  Amanda was doing better, his son got out surgery, just fine. She was okay now. Until, out of the blue, her son got a heart attack. 19 years old and suffered from a heart attack, how is that?! The doctors did all they could, but Jared needed a heart transplant. They put his name on a waiting list. The young man had hours without a healthy heart. Then, miraculously, a donor appeared. Jared was good and healthy again. Out of nowhere, Tuck`s attorney called Amanda, he told her devastating news, Dawson was declared brain dead and well, eventually pass away. And she understood, Dawson was the donor, he saved her son`s life. 

It is officially true, Dawson only love one girl his whole life, Amanda. He never got over her, and maybe in some way, he never lost her, but now she`d lost him and this time it was forever.

“It had been twenty-four years. Since then, he`d gone to prison and been released; he`d worked on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. He`d love and lost, then loved and lost again” (252).

I believe the author wanted the reader to understand that Dawson was never unhappy, he was just without Amanda. And this only makes the time he`d spent with her even more valuable and more special. Every second counts. People should enjoy the things that makes them happy, enjoy them fully, every second. Do not take the good things in for granted. 

While Jared was in the ICU, very delicate and sick, his mother never left his side. She slept in that uncomfortable chair next to him; she entered the room without permission. After all she is his mother. And she held his hand. 

“Only his hands seemed unaffected, and she held on to one of them, drawing strength from its warmth” (258).

After I read this part, I didn’t only felt incredibly sad, but I remember the book, The Fault in our Stars. There is a part where Augustus goes to see Hazel at the ICU and touches her hands, because despite all the sickness and the drugs, her hands where still her hands. 

This novel was simply amazing. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough! I loved it. I just wanted to see Amanda and Dawson together. But it is not reality. Nicholas Sparks was being realistic; life is not a Disney story. There are not such things as a prince charming or a princess. And, from one point of view is better, because, we get to make our own reality. But, Nic, sir, YOU DIDN’T HAD TO KILL HIM!