Rough draft The Last Song

The Last Song       

In the book The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks describes the main character named Ronnie who has a family with divorced parents. Ronnie’s life was hard for her to face. She dislike how her parents are separated and she tries her best to ignore the fact that her parents were divorced. She was a talented pianist but after her parents divorced, she lost her confidence and gave up playing the piano. Ronnie did not have any goals in her life, so she can not think about her future.

“ And Ronnie doesn’t always come with us. She locks herself in her room and refuses to come out, but as soon as we leave, she goes over to Starbucks to hang out with her friends. It makes mom furious.” (pg 27)

Ronnie does not like to interact with her family. There must be problems going on with her family that causes her to ignore her family. She tries to pretend they do not even exist. Because her routines of locking herself in her room, it made her mom curious about her life. Her past had impacted her lots when it comes to talking to her family. Ronnie finds that it would be better if she stays separate from her family so then she can get away from the problems in her family.  Ronnie understands that it is hard to talk to her family,so then the best thing for her to do is to replace her family with her friends. She had many difficulties after her parents had divorced, she had tried shoplifting and other things that caused her to be in many troubles.

Her parents’ divorce had impacted her a lot where it turns her from being a talented pianist into a girl that lost confidence in themselves. She is basically stuck in a dead end. She just can not accept the fact that her parents are divorced because she came from a family with a dad who is a pianist. His dad had taught her a lot about music and the piano however it seems like now that her parents are divorced, she hates her dad. She thinks it is all her dad’s fault for the divorce because his dad left the family behind to chase his dreams as a pianist. Ronnie may seem strong in the outside,but she is actually a really weak girl that needs help.

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks is an inspirational book because it brings out tears to readers. After reading this book, I felt that the author had lots of purposes in writing this book. One of his purpose was to convince readers that parents are really important and they should spend more time with them before they leave them alone in their world.

   Ronnie ignored his dad for three years and when she tried spending time with him or forgive him, his dad had gotten cancer and was about to die. After she found out her dad had cancer, she realized that she only had a few months with him. Ronnie tried her best to be close to her dad.

   “ I played for him as long as I could, mom. And I tried so hard to make it beautiful for him, because I knew how much it meant to him. But he was just so weak,” she whispered.” ( pg 448)

Ronnie regretted for not forgiving her dad earlier enough or even gave her dad a chance to explain what was going on within those three years. After she found out the truth about why her parents divorced and she realized that it wasn’t her dad’s fault, her mind was full of regrets. She really wanted her dad back where she can play more piano music for him. Ronnie showed that she was missing him very much and wish that none of this would had happen.

   The author tried to tell readers to appreciate their parents because they will leave some times in life and they may not see them again. Ronnie was an example where she was mad at her dad and when she was finally forgiving her dad, she knew it was to late. Her dad was about to leave her world. I believe the author did a really good job with integrating this purpose into the book because at the end, readers were able to learn the concept of appreciating parents after reading the scenes of how Ronnie and his dad tried to spend as much time with each other as they could but they knew it wasn’t just enough. After reading this book, the message had brought readers to understand how important it is to care for their family and spend more time with them.