Love At First Sight Exist?

Rochelle Alvarado

At First Sight
By Nicholas Sparks

Does love at first sight exist? This is the main question that the whole novel is based on. 

In Nicholas Sparks novel At First Sight, he emphasize that love at first sight exist and he 

shows it through the loving relationship between the main two characters, Jeremy and Lexi. 

Jeremy is an optimistic guy, who always tries to see the beauty behind everything and he is also a

dynamic man. Jeremy went through a divorce with his first wife which left him 

devastated, but then he met this girl, Lexie; a sweet woman, who is open-minded and 

emotionally stable. Meeting her was like having this new adventure, this new feeling, this 

new opportunity to make everything right again. They met in Boone Creek, North Carolina. 

Lexie was in a on and off relationship with a local deputy sheriff when Jeremy appeared. 

They started dating when something unexpected happened. Jeremy all of a sudden wanted to

get married with Lexie even though they did not know each other that well. But there was a reason

behind that unexpected decision, and that reason was a pregnancy. Lexie was 

pregnant with Jeremy’s baby. Their lives changed immediately. They had a long journey that

ended not as I was expecting to end; it was an unexpecting ending.

  When Jeremy announced he was getting married, his best friend Alvin said to him that 

love at first sight did not exist, but Jeremy disagreed, “This is happening too fast. You don’t 

know Lexie” (Sparks 7). In my opinion, I do not think love at first sight exist, I believe that 

love is gradually increased when you get to meet the person throughout the days, months, 

and years. Alvin tells to Jeremy, “You’re messing up the order. You’re going straight to the 

big ‘I do’ before you even figured out whether you two are right for each other. You barely 

know Lexie” (Sparks 6). I agree with the way Alvin thinks, I believe that after giving the 

chance to know the person, than oneself can think about  marriage. In Jeremy’s case he 

believed it was love at first sight because not only he fell in love, but she was also pregnant with

his child which made her even more special. But even though I do not believe love at 

first sight exist, while reading this book I could see the different perspective, and I could see

that there is at least one percent of love at first sight.

  Now, I have not finished reading the book, but throughout these few chapters I have read,

I love the way the author shows such good imagery by the way he writes. His choice of 

words are wisely chosen for the reader, the reader can feel and see everything that is 

happening in his novel. The speed in the novel is a perfect speed, is not too slow nor too 

fast, it’s a speed were you have time process everything. Sparks does a good job leaving a 

cliffhanger for the reader. Since I got too excited with the novel, I jumped to read the last 

chapter (it’s a weird thing I do) but when I read it I was left in shock because I did not, like I 

said in the first paragraph, expected that ending. I recommend you to read it because you 

get to see both perspectives of whether love at first sight exist or not. If you do get to read it I 

hope you enjoy it like I am. Just a piece of advice, grab a box of tissues if you are a 

sentimental type of person.