The Unforgettable Summer

The Unforgettable Summer

Author’s Note: I wrote this for my District Writing Assessment.  

Many kids and adults don’t experience going through a divorce. In the end most divorced couples end up loving someone else. Divorce is very difficult for adults and especially children. Ronnie, the main character in this book, “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks, doesn’t believe in love. So Ronnie doesn’t love her dad after she believes he caused the divorce. “The Last Song” is an eye opening experience. Many people can learn lots of things from this book; you can learn the meaning of love, to never judge someone, and in the end the meaning of the title.

First you could learn to never judge people by whom they associate with, or by how they dress and speak. You can learn that because Ronnie, the main character in the story, judged Will. Will was a character who accidentally spilled soda on Ronnie at a volleyball game. Ronnie was mad and judged Will because she thought he thought he was to cool. Ronnie also judged her dad because she thought that he was going to be boring and not want to do anything with her. She was wrong about both guys. Ronnie ended up loving Will and she liked hanging out with her dad. Ronnie loved them both in the end.

When you love someone you will do anything for that person and that is also learned from this book. Ronnie ended up forgiving Will and her father. Ronnie had to leave New York to go to South Carolina to visit her dad and her dad eventually died of cancer. Her father died right in front of her.  After the funeral Will said he didn’t want to be with Ronnie and didn’t say good-bye to her before she left to go back home to New York. About a year later while Ronnie changed her life around and went back to school, Will came back and said that he loved her. Will also said he was stupid to let her leave and not say a good-bye. This time he was going to stay and go to college in New York with Ronnie.

This book means many things to me but the most important thing is the title. The Last Song it  means more than just love. It means it will be the last time Ronnie will hear, see, talk to and most importantly hear her dad’s music on the piano. When Ronnie’s dad died that was “the last song” she ever heard him play. When he died she changed her life around and then started to play music again on the piano. This was her way to remember her dad.

This book isn’t just an intense love story, but it is an intense, real life story that happens to many people. It is all worth living for, in the end everyone is happy. This book can and will teach you  what happens to many families. This book will even help you get through your own personal situation. This book will inspire you and put a smile in your heart.