Summary of Dear John

Dear John is about a boy, John, that lives in North Carolina. After high school John enlistes in the army. While home on a leave, John meets Savannah who is in North Carolina doing mission work. Their attraction is mutual and they quickly fall in love. John has to leave two weeks after they met to go back to the army. Savannah agreed that she would wait for him to finish his tour of duty. They write letters to eachother and picked up where they left off when he comes back on another leave. However they start to drift apart when 9-11 occurs and John is forced to re-enlist in the army. They begin to grow apart and eventually Savannah sends him a letter that says she is in love with someone else. John was heartbroken and stops communicating with her. A little while later, John's father died and left John all the coins from his coin collection that is worth a lot of money. While John is home for his fathers funeral, he decides to go visit Savannah. It turns out she married her best friend she grew up with,Tim, who John became friends with when he met Savannah. Tim has Melanoma and there is nothing the doctors can do anymore. Savannah wants to send him to a better hospital that can run experiments and tests on him but she can't afford it. Before John leaves to go back to Iraq, he donates all the money his father's coin collection was worth to Tim's fund. He never spoke to Savannah again and goes on living his life in the army.

Movie:
Savannah ends up marrying one of her childhood friends named Tim and he ends up getting cancer. John sells his dad's coin collection in order to help get Tim treatment, but Tim dies anyway. Savannah and John meet coincidently on a street in Charleston (John is unlocking his bicycle and Savannah is sitting near a window in a Cafe) and she walks out and gives him a hug.


Book:
Savannah marries Tim, he gets cancer...John goes to see her and they end up parting amicably. He sells his dad's coin collection to get Tim treatment, and Tim goes into remission. He goes back to see her at her house, but he is hidden in the hills and she walks outside and looks to where he is (but doesn't see him) and then she looks up at the moon.


From my point of view,
I love how sweet they are, they romance they build.. and also when John cried ( that's how a man cries manly ).
But, I don't like Savannah being so dumb to married Tim when she is so in LOVE with John.
1- Channing Tatum ,1/2- Amanda Seyfried. I'm so sorry(frown)