BLOG #18. Dear John

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Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama-war film starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum. It was made by Screen Gems and was released theatrically in North America on February 5, 2010. The film was directed by Lasse Hallström, and it is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' 2006 novel of the same name. It follows the life of a soldier (Channing Tatum) after he falls in love with a young woman (Amanda Seyfried). They decide to exchange letters to each other after he is deployed to the war. The movie was filmed in 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina.

John Tyree

John Tyree, the narrator of the novel Dear John was born in 1977 and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. John was always in motion and hated to be alone. School was like a social club with sports. John was very outgoing and taller than his father when he was in eight grade. He was very athletic as he was able to beat his father at wrestling when he was in middle school. John had brown hair and eyes and olive skin that would tan by May. He also had a crew cut that John and Savannah would talk about later in the novel. When he was young he started to care about sports, girls, cars, music, and spending little time at home. However when High school had started, John grew on to his rebellious stage and would cut classes, smoke, get suspended, and gave up on sports. During this stage, he had dated dozens of women. After he had dated Lucy and their break up, he soon joined the military and participated in the boot camp in Fort Benning. He was twenty years old and in late 1977 at the time. After he went in to the military, he had quit smoking and hadn’t touched cigarettes in over two years. He moderated his drinking and his record was clean. He had become an officer candidate school (OCS) later on because people thought that he could really lead.

Savannah Lynn Curtis

In the novel when John first meets Savannah, she is described to be an attractive brunette that is a little younger than John. She was described as very beautiful and had a slightly gap-toothed smile. It also mentions in the novel that she has an accent. When they had first met, Savannah was a junior in college and majoring in special education. Her laugh was described as being melodic and had dark eyes. She was twenty-one at the time. She does not drink alcohol and attends church every Sunday. Being a devoted Christian in the family, her parents are very understanding and she has described herself as being sheltered during her childhood. Savannah later experienced a trauma that almost led her to be raped by a senior that attended in her college. It had given her a hard time and all of her friends made fun of her. Later when she falls in love with John, she later marries Tim because of the long distance for a long period of time.

Tim Wheddon

Tim Wheddon is described in the novel as being Savannah’s close friend and has an autistic younger brother that is around twelve years old at the time. In the novel he serves as a character that shows friendliness, courtesy, and being considerate towards John even though they had just met. John later finds out that Tim Wheddon loves Savannah and finds out that after a couple of years, Tim and Savannah ends up being married. When Tim’s parents had died in a car crash, he later becomes hospitalized for excessive bleeding. In the novel, his physical features state that he is shorter and much paler than John and have short hair.

Bill Tyree

Bill Tyree was John Tyree’s father and he drove a mail delivery route for the post office. As described by his son, he is passive and introspective. He placed high on education. He had poor posture and tended to shuffle when he walked. He had sandy hair, hazel eyes, and freckles. He was socially awkward and quietest man John, his son had ever known. He was forty three when he had his first and last child, John Tyree. He lived for routine and did the same things such as he didn’t date or spend weekend nights playing poker with his buddies. Bill was later found to have Aspergers although it was never proven in the book. Suffering from two heart attacks, Bill had passed away.

“Dear John”, a heart‐breaking letter changed a man’s life radically. It is a story about a man whose name is John Tyree. He lived only with his father because his mother left them after he was born.    And John’s father likes to collect the coins, but as John growing up, he didn’t like what his father did and even shouted to his father.    When he was a teenager he hung out with his friends every day.    He even didn’t know what to do with his future, but he still pretended everything was okay.    However, after Lucy who has been his girlfriend departed him, he faced the music and thought more about the future.    Then, he enlisted in the army.    During a furlough, he met Savannah, the girl of his dreams.    The attraction is mutual and quickly grows into the kind of love that Savannah vowing to wait for John while he finished his duty.    And John was ready to turn over a new leaf.    In the meanwhile because of Savannah, the relationship between John and his dad got better.    She also found out about the health problems of John’s father, which also    made John take better care of his dad.    Nonetheless, when Savannah entered the college, there were many arguments that happened between them. These arguments made the relationship between them change.    Then, Savannah broke up with him via a letter when John was served in Iraq.    John was heartbroken.    Seven weeks after taking his father to a good healthcare center, his father died of heart attack.    After the funeral, John decided to find Savannah to figure out everything.    Then, he learned Savannah had gotten married to Tim, and Tim was dying.    Additionally, Tim’s parents    died suddenly from a car accident.    John was sorry and knew that Tim was a nice guy who loved Savannah much.    He knew that the relation among Tim, Savannah and Alan, who was Tim’s mentally challenged brother, was strong and no one could get evolved in it.    Even though John was still in love with Savannah Tim hoped that John could take care of Savannah after he died.    John still didn’t want to transform his love.    He made his mind to leave the happy memories with Savannah behind.