- Adaptation Displacement: A Walk to Remember is originally a book with a somewhat different plot compared to its movie adaptation, which is more well-known.
- Alternate Aesop Interpretation:
- For the book version: Do not get involved in any charity work, especially when a Nice, Delicate and Sickly girl requests you to do so personally. It will end badly for both of you.
- For the movie version: As long as you remain pure and virginal (and happen to look like Mandy Moore), the most popular boy at your high school will definitely give up his friends and his popularity just to be with you. After all, true goodness is irresistible!
- For both versions: Do not marry an girl with chronic disease. She won't survive long enough to bear your child, she won't have a happy family with you, and the grieving will be severe. In shorter words, the marriage will do more bad than good for both of you.
- Covered Up: Twice, with Jon Foreman on both receiving ends.
- The Mandy Moore version of "Only Hope" is better remembered than the original Switchfoot version. The latter's version is also heard in Jamie and Landon's wedding scene.
- The Mandy Moore and Jon Foreman cover of "Someday We'll Know" is better remembered than the original New Radicals version.note
- Hollywood Homely: There's no way that anybody could look at Mandy Moore and call her "plain" or "ugly".
- It Was His Sled: Jamie dies.
- She Really Can Act: Turns out teenaged "bubblegum pop princess" Mandy Moore is actually pretty darn good at this 'acting' thing, as this movie proved.
- Moment of Awesome:
- In the book, Landon assists Jamie with various charity works as a payment for helping him in the drama class, and he does the charity works well despite his evident lack of experience in doing so.
- In the movie when some of Landon's friends Photoshop Jamie's head onto the body of a porn star. When he finds out, Landon walks over to one of his guy friends and slugs him in the face, knocking him over.
- In both versions, Landon owning up to his past mistakes and making efforts in becoming a better person. This being said, Book!Landon's mistakes are particulary tame compared to Movie!Landon's, though.
- Tear Jerker: Literally the entire second half the movie, but more specifically once Jamie delivers her Wham Line: "I have leukemia."
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