The novel employs a third-person limited point of view to intimately follow its two protagonists:
A decade later, Travis and Gabby are married with children. Following a devastating car accident, Gabby is left in a comatose state. The "choice" of the title shifts from a romantic dilemma to a life-and-death moral one: Travis must decide whether to follow Gabby's previous wishes to be removed from life support or continue waiting for a recovery doctors say is unlikely. 2. Major Themes
The story is underpinned by several recurring themes common to Sparks’s Nicholas Sparks Writing Notes : Nicholas Sparks The Choice Writing Notes