The Sun Rises and the movie Dear John based off a book written by Nicholas Sparks.
Dear John by Lasse Hallstrom) provide ample importance to the after-effect of wars on human life, but differs in the treatment of the theme of romance because the novel explores the scope of romance in human life, but the film goes deeper into human life and explores the connection between romantic love and reconciliation.
In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway provides ample importance to negative influence of wars on human life. For instance, the protagonist (say, Jake Barnes) and his friends face a number of problems related to WWII. Besides, the protagonist and his friends decide to get immersed in different modes of entertainment to forget the negative effect of the WWII. In the work The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the narrator points out that, “Cohn had been talking about the two of us going off somewhere on a weekend trip” (14). Similar to the novel, Lasse Hallstrom inculcates the atrocities of war in his film Dear John. In the film, war badly affects the protagonist’s (John Tyree) personal life, especially his romantic love with Savannah. Besides, the protagonist’s life is symbolic of the negative effect of war on human life. So, one can see that the plot of both the novel and the movie is interconnected with the hardships faced by human beings, during and after wars.
In the novel, the protagonist and his friends consider romance as a temporary escapade from reality. To be specific, the protagonist’s lover (say, Lady Brett Ashley) is symbolic of temporary relationship, rather than Platonic love. In the novel, protagonist feels jealous of his friends and quarrels with them. One can see that temporary romance is the reason behind the conflict between the protagonist and his friends. On the other side, the protagonist (John Tyree) in the movie is symbolic of Platonic love.