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Sparks, Nicholas. The Last Song (Large Print). Grand Central Pub. Large Print, 2009.

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Nicholas Sparks was born December 31, 1965 in Nebraska. He mainly grew up in California. He is the author of many best selling romance and heartbreak novels. He has published 20 fiction and 2 nonfiction books.

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“The festival was temporarily located in the parking lot at the head of the pier, and it mostly resembled a small county fair. The rickety rides were part of a traveling carnival, and the parking lot was lined with overpriced game booths and greasy food concessions. The whole place was kind of…gross.”
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“And so, of course, did the blinding sun. Judging by the fact that she’d been waking up with the farmers since she’d arrived, she figured today was no different. It probably wasn’t even seven yet. The sun was hanging low over the ocean, and a few people were walking their jogs or jogging near the water’s edge. No doubt they’d slept in beds.”

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Ronnie: 17 years old
Transfers from a rebellious child
to a responsible women
Steve Miller: Ronnie's father
Ideal father figure that shows
his kids he loves them
Who becomes sick
Will Blakelee: Ronnie's boyfriend
Jonah Miller: 10 years old
Ronnie's little brother
Blaze: a beach girl that becomes
close with Ronnie
Marcus: Blaze's boyfriend
Who often gets in trouble

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Leave all the bad things in the past and love your friends and family while you still can.
Ronnie needs to forget what her father did and show him that she really does love her because he is dying.

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Ronnie a troubled high school student who was arrested for shop lifting. Her two parents split and she grew away from both of them. She stopped playing the piano, which she is very talented at when her father left to go back to his home town. Ronnie's mother sent her and her brother to live with their father for a summer. Her brother was very excited but she thought her parents hated her. When Ronnie gets to her dads she goes to the beach and meets a guy named Will who is a well known volleyball player. She also met Blaze while she was cleaning soda off her shirt. Blaze's parents were also divorced. Ronnie quickly learns that there is a nest of sea turtles, a species that is endangered. Will volunteers at the local aquarium so he helped her. She stayed outside the nest all night making sure that no raccoons would eat them. Later in the novel Ronnie discovers that her father has cancer. She then had to decide how she was gonna help him and continue to live like she was loved.

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Eastern North Carolina in the
town Wilmington along the
Atlantic Coast.
Ronnie's fathers home (Steve)
The Wilmington church

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When the baby turtles are born they symbolism a new start to Ronnie's life. After she watched and cared for them she changed as they were born and left the nest.

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Irony:
When Ronnie meet Will and
thinks she will never fall in love
with him. But she ends up falling
so in love with him.
Simile:
"You look like an Easter egg"
page 258

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As Ronnie and Jonah dad's cancer evolves, they continue to finish the window with Will. While Ronnie also finishes her song she writes for dad on the piano.

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The author wrote in the third person point of view narrating the story of Ronnie and her father and their relationship.
Each chapter shows a different character in the story.

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There is conflict between Ronnie and her father. Even though Ronnie loves her father deep down inside she acts like she doesn't on the outside.

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Be kind and be compassionate to one another and forgive.
The author shows that Ronnie needs to be kind to those around her even if she thinks they messed something up.

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When the sea turtles are first born it is and inspirational metaphor.

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There are moments of great happiness and moments of misery.
Great moment: When Ronnie begins to play the piano again.
Misery moment: When they find out that Ronnie's dad has cancer.