1. A Walk to Remember
Sarah Vang, Amina Sharif,
Thaer Alharbi, Faisal Alsaykhan

2. Information
 Date of production:
2002
 Ratings: 7.4/10
 Metascore: 35/100
 Domestic:
$41,281,092
 Foreign:
$6,213,824
 Worldwide:
$47,494,916
 Artistic Director’s
Award: Adam
Shankman
 MTV Movie Award:
Mandy Moore
 Teen Choice
Award: Mandy
Moore, Shane
West

3. Reviews
 “As a maturing male, I couldn't help but cry
inside… I found myself wishing I were either
Landon or Jamie, because they represent the
real virtues of life and love. While I never
expected this to touch me so much, AWTR
enters as perhaps my favorite movie of all time.”
 “A girl looking like Mandy Moore would not get
treated at all poorly at all in suburban high
school. It's discouraging that the kids with real
social problems see movies that are supposed to
represent people like them, only to find they cast
someone like Moore for the part of the outcast.
This contradicts what the messages in these
movies are supposedly supposed to be: you
shouldn't care what others think of you. It's
almost offensive. ”

5. Plot summary
When Landon (Shane West) decides he
wants to take his activities seriously, he
asks Jamie (Mandy Moore) for help and
begins to spend most of his time with
her. He starts to develop strong feelings
for her. The two starts a relationship,
when a heart-breaking secret becomes
known that puts their relationship to the
test, it is then that Landon and Jamie
realize the true meaning of love and
fate.

6. Stages
Coming together
 Initiating
 Experimenting
 Intensifying
 Integrating
 Bonding
Coming apart
 Differentiating
 Circumscribing
 Stagnating
 Avoiding
 Terminating

8. Initiating
This very short stage is all about
making an impression. So this stage the
judging would not be accurate. People
will be concerned with making favorable
impressions. The physical appearance
plays a great role in impression making.

9. Initiating
 They were making fun of Jamie’s
outdated fashion. Landon was
laughing at her appearance with his
friends.
 This shows that Landon did not found
Jamie to be attractive.

11. Experimenting
After initiating stage, people move into
experimenting stage. They want to
know whether they have any basis for a
long-term relationship with the other
person and on what basis the
relationship might exist.

12. Experimenting
 They had a small talk in the bus.
 Landon was trying to discover issues
about Jamie.
 In the car, Landon asked Jamie to go
on a date with her.
 Landon asked Jamie’s father for his
permission to go on a date with his
daughter.

14. Integrating
Integration is the feeling that one or
both sides of the relationship feel as if
they are a part of each other and that
whatever happens to one, either
something good or bad, also happens
to the other and feels with them.

15. Integrating
In this scene, Jamie is bullied by some
of Landon’s former friends. After bring
embarrassed, Landon takes Jamie out
of the school to blow some steam and
calm her down. He then tells her that
everything will be okay and that he will
stick with her no matter what.

17. Intensifying
They will find various ways to nurture a
relationship in order to strengthen
interpersonal development such as
gifts, spending more time together,
expressing affection through verbal and
nonverbal actions.

18. Intensifying
In the scene, Landon tells Jamie that he
loves her for the first time. Which is a
verbal way of expressing his affection
towards her.

20. Stagnating
Stagnating is when couples are usually
feeling this sense of coming apart and
have a little grief going on with them.
They feel as if they don’t feel the need
to communicate with each other and
already know what the other is going to
say.

21. Stagnating
In this scene, Jamie admits that she has
cancer and has been diagnosed for
several years now. Landon doesn’t want
to hear anymore of what Jamie’s going
to say because he feels like he knows
what she is going to say. Now, Landon
must cope with her diagnosis and figure
out how he’s going to deal with it.

23. Bonding
Bonding stage is the last stage of
coming together. The integrating stage
does not necessarily move into
bonding. Two people could work closely
with each other at the same job until
retirement without feeling that there was
a relationship commitment. Probably all
of us have life-long friends with whom
we don't share a commitment. On the
other hand, special relationships move
eventually to bonding.

24. Bonding
• In the beginning of the movie
it compared love with stars in
the sky.
• Keeping promises into reality
by lovers.
• Unity among lovers should be
adequate.
• Being faithful to the partner is
the best.
• Fulfilling commitments made
by lovers.
• Trust in lovers should be
observed.
• Cooperation among the
couple
• Couples have ability to believe
in one another.

25. Bonding
 Bonding stage is the stage where
couples begin to movie into life long
commitments such as marriage.
 In this scene, Landon and Jamie
marry each other because they love
each other and want to be in each
others lives as long as they live.
 This shows as example of the bonding
stage, the final stage of coming
together.

26. Group Analysis
 Assess group roles and group leadership. Did your group assign any
specific roles? Did certain roles emerge throughout your group
process? Provide specific information and examples to support your
position.
 What were your perceptions of the division of work among the group
members? How did group members negotiate different individual
goals and how did that affect workload? How did your group handle
decision-making? Did you see any types of power or any
compliance-gaining strategies functioning in your group? Explain.
 Did your group experience conflict in any way? How was it
handled? How did conflict(s) affect the group (morale, task
completion, attitude, decision-making, etc.)? What have you learned
about conflict in small groups as a result of this project? If your
group did not experience any conflict, discuss why you think that
was the case… what did your group do, how did the members act,
etc. that prevented conflict from developing or escalating?
 What was your favorite part of this group project? What have you
learned about communication in small groups that you plan to use in
future group experiences? What would you change in order to
maximize your group experience?

27. Bibliography
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281358/
 A Walk to Remember (2002) - Box Office Mojo. (n.d.).
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 Plot Summary. (n.d.). Retrieved April 27, 2015, from
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281358/plotsummary
 Knapp's Relationship Model. (n.d.). Retrieved April 28, 2015,
from http://communicationtheory.org/knapps-relationship-
model/
 Cool9k (2007). A walk to remember. Film and animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggh6e6S1Agc
 Shankman A. (2002). A Walk to Remember.
 Richard D. Rowley. (2001).
http://www.aligningaction.com/stages.htm