I think that Nicholas Sparks wrote True Believer because so many of his stories or books have been based of love stories between two very different people who find a way to fall in love. But True Believer is based on the theme of ghost, and different legends in the western North Carolina area. Also since he wrote so many love stories, he had to think of something different to keep people interested in reading his books. Nicholas Sparks also probably wrote this to keep from always writing cliche love stories and wanted this book to be more unusual and divergent from his current books. True Believer is almost completely differs from his many other books, the plot, characterization, the way it's written, the vocabulary, and mostly the setting are different from what he would usually write.
Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 89 million copies in print worldwide, in over 50 languages, including over 50 million copies in the United States alone, and his popularity continues to soar. Nicholas Sparks lives in North Carolina with his family. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school.
The Theme of In the Darkness was would be that life is full of obstacles, it just takes time to reach what you intended to before, and reaching that goal should mean more to you than anything. The quote from the book that supports this would be“We understand what Boukman said in Bois Caimen; we understand it for the first time. Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire; behind all of this is another thing, another mass, and it does not correspond of this world; it is everything that is here in the world, but it is so much more, too(Lake 326)." This quote explains the theme because it's showing that in the book Bois Caimen the many obstacles he had to go through, and no matter how many he made it through there was always another one he has to face. The book was about the struggle a little Haitian boy had to go through to stay alive while under a crumbled hospital after the Haiti Earthquake. Also the story of Toussaint l’Ouverture and his fight to get equal rights for the slaves and slave women.
This article is about the basics of what the books mainly about, not in detail but mostly an overall summary of the book.In the Darkness Article
