What goes up must come down; the statement proves true for Russell Green when the thirty-two years old loses everything he once had in a flash. At the peak of his career, Russell thought he had achieved everything a man could just dream of. He was married to the hottest woman in the town and had a job that could make many envy his status. His only daughter became the center of attention of both parents. Just when Russell was enjoying all this he started losing it more quickly than he gained it.
The first thing to lose was the job and with it, the big house also disappeared into thin air. One thing that Russell never expected to lose was Vivian who quickly separated herself from him and their daughter after this downfall. The man was left alone after that with a daughter to take care of. In broken condition, he finally starts seeing life from a different angle.
The angle that he currently sees is more tragic and more real as compared to the smokescreen in which he was living. Nicholas Sparks makes the man suffer to make him see the bitter realities and actual truth about life. The downfall of such a type existed somewhere in The Return and The Rescue but it was never the primary focus of those books. Here another theme which the author narrates is true love.
Russ never thought that his wife would leave him but it happened which means their relationship was always of utilitarian type. In the voice of Ari Fliakos, we surely witness the rise of a hero from the ashes. It’s the birth of a new Russ that all of us observe in the end.
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