Overcoming Struggle

I read the book The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. The book is about a young adults that meet during the summer. The two, Ali and Noah, end up falling madly in love. Ali's parents don't approve of their relationship so they leave town early to go back home. Noah writes daily expressing his love, but Ali's mother never gives her the letters. Many years later Noah happens to be in the town where Ali lives and sees her. Noah soon finds out that Ali is engaged to another man. In the end Ali and Noah end up together. In The Notebook the stuggle is that Ali didn't initially get to choose who she wanted to be with.
The Notebook is similar to Nectar and a Sieve because both Ali, Ruku, and Ira don't get to choose who they want to be with. The books are different in the fact taht in the end, Alo does end up with who she wants to be with. As of right now, we have not read enough to find out if Ira gets to be with who she wants.