Dear John

While John was fighting in the war, he and his love Savannah would send letters back and forth until his leave every year. After every leave things would change between John and Savannah as if their love was fading away because of the distance between them. When John only had one more year left in the war, he received a letter from Savannah saying that she fell in love with another man. While burning every letter he had from Savannah, he did not feel hatred towards her but to the fact that she could do something as hurtful and careless to him.

Two years later when John was on his leave for the death of his dad, he visited Savannah. Both could tell that things had changed between the two of them. They couldn’t talk to each other as easy as it was before and the subjects that would come up of her married life and everything that happened while he was gone made it especially awkward.

As I was reading this book, I remembered a quote that I’ve heard and thought it related to this book: “True Love burns the brightest, but the brightest flames leave the deepest scars”. Even though Savannah broke his heart, he knew he would always love her and somehow she would love him too. Savannah never looked at any other man even her husband the same way she looked at John. With Savannah’s “breaking up” letter being the climax of the story, John resolves it with forgiving her and the man who stole her from him. Years later, Savannah and John reunited unknowingly, greeting each other just as good friends.