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A Bend in the Road

In Nicholas Sparks’s novel A Bend in the Road, the main character, Miles Ryan, allows himself to be tormented by the killing of his wife, Missy. By assuming that it was cold blooded murder, Miles spent two years on the case, trying to find the possible “killer” of the hit and run, only to find that it was indeed an accident and nobody was at fault. After finding that the death of his wife was indeed an accident, Miles realized that by living in the past for the last two years of his life he was not able to be the person that he really was.
At the beginning of the novel, the author states, ‘He (Miles) was tired of being alone, of waking up in an empty bed, though the feeling surprised him. He hadn’t felt that way until recently. In the first year after Missy’s death, He couldn’t even begin to imagine loving another woman… Even after he weathered shock and grief strong enough to make him cry every night, his life felt wrong somehow.’ The first impression......

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