Some feelings after reading the original novel-DEAR JOHN

This week, I was addicted to reading DEAR JOHN. At first i got this book costing me near 10 dollars from amazon, I just thought that it was a boy and girl love story. Actually, I was wrong, deeply. with going on reading, I fond it not just a love story. It seems like a travel to watch the hero to grow up, from a fallen-in-love boy to a man. Maybe you can find your shadow in the novel.
At the beginng, John met a girl named Savannah, then fall in love. It looks very ordinary. Yeah, it is. And after John's back to the army, something's about to change little by little. one year, two years, three years...... a long time to wait. The relationship between them was broken as we can imagine. But that's not the the end. With all this things happenning, John maybe pick up something and realize something that he used to be wrong. Especially with his Dad, an autistic person. He got to understand his pop, and break up the space between them. Even though his father was away forever, it was also a good ending between them.
Then turn to the heroine, Savannah. They met each other a few years later. But it seemed that it was too late. She married Tim who suffered from an certain cancer and let John take care of Savannah well for him. And finally John said goodbye to them. He learned what the true love is.

"I finally understood what true love really mean-that love meant that you care
for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the
choices you face might be."

The thought of true love is far and away different from what he knew at first.
Ok about the ending of the whole stroy-bittersweet. We can't tell from the original novel. Only thing we can do is imagine-imagine your own ending.

"Our time together comes back to me. I find myself remembering how it began, for
now memories are all iI have left."

"......I stay where i am and stare
up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're
together again."

This story is from 2000 to 2006, six years. Starting from a beach and end up with the full moon. You can't miss it. That's all I wanna share with you.