Dear John is a book that leaves readers emotional with the thought of how strong love really is and how it aeffected John and Savannah’s lives. The Prologue starts of with the ultimate question, "What does it mean to truly love another?" This question is placed in your head as the story is being read and the readers get to think about and experience what John and Savannah went through. The book starts off with describing John’s past and how he became the person he is today. John was a troubled teenager who lived with just his dad and they do not have the best relationship. John’s dad, Mr. Tyree is a shy man who has a hobby of collecting coins, which he had been doing for as long as John can remember. John’s mom left them when he was born so his dad raised him all alone. As John grew older, he grew further apart …show more content…
When he blacked out, the first thing he thought about were coins, and the second thing was Savannah. John stayed in the army for as long as he possibly could and thought about making it a full time thing. He is forced to go home when receiving dreadful news, his dad was in the hospital due to a stroke. Grieving his dad’s death, John visits Savannah’s hometown. He finds her at the farmhouse she and her husband own, and he learns she married her friend Tim, with whom she’d been building homes the summer she met John. He noticed that Savannah seems unhappy with life, and John later finds out that it’s because Tim is in the hospital battling cancer. The care and treatment he needs is way too expensive and they can’t afford it. She bares herself emotionally and physically to John in the midst of her pain. Though it’s heartbreaking, he declines her advances and leaves town. He sells his father’s coin collection and anonymously funds the treatment Tim needs. Later, he returns in secret to Savannah’s farm. The treatment has worked, and she and Tim are happily resuming their