I can’t imagine a life without my dad, but Veronica “Ronnie” Miller desperately wants nothing to do with hers. Ronnie is an altruistic young adult, a bitter daughter, and a talented pianist. Following a messy divorce, Ronnie along with her little brother, Jonah, are forced to stay with their father for the summer. Ronnie resents her father for leaving their family and is less than thrilled to spend her summer in North Carolina. After getting herself mixed up with the wrong crowd, she finds her rebellious personality challenged by a boy named Will. They soon begin to fall in love, changing Ronnie’s perspective on many things, including her father. In this journal, I will be discussing important objects throughout the novel and their significance. …show more content…
The most essential object displayed throughout The Last Song is the piano. Ronnie used to play the piano but abruptly stopped when her parents got a divorce. It was something she shared with her father, so she wanted to spite him by not playing anymore. She hated it so much that she boarded up the piano at Steve’s house. Ronnie soon came to love her father again, and once she found out he was dying she decided to finish the song he was writing before he was hospitalized. Once it’s completed, she arranges for her father to come home so that she can give her father one last infallible performance. As Ronnie plays his last song, Steve thinks, “God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie 's hands” (Sparks 358). This is the last song that he hears before he passes, making it the most important moment in the entire novel. The Last Song is without a doubt a novel that hits close to home for me, and I felt that I really connected to the theme. With a bracelet that sparked ☺ a love, a window that bound father and son, and a song that will live on forever in the heart of a daughter is story of indomitable love and the importance of family. I can’t imagine a life without my dad, and now Ronnie Miller doesn’t have a
It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes” ? How does this shape your idea of Jeanette’s life? Symbol: What do the last two sentences on page 57 symbolize?
Their story shows how in times of financial problems, family and love stands strong. Kenny Loggins wrote this song as a gift to his brother, Danny. There is an indirect theme which follows the entire story. This theme is love and
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Sutherland starts off the essay with a narrative about her husband’s lost keys. While she uses to chase her husband around helping him in the search, she now ignores his racket and continues washing the dishes. While she loves her husband, there are little quirks about him that she wishes she could change. She describes him as “well read [and] adventurous…but also tends to be forgetful, and is often tardy and
There are many moments in this book where Isabella’s story is changed. The most transformative moments for Isabella Thornton are when her parents get divorced and when she gets kicked out of a fancy store. In Sharon M. Draper’s Blended, Isabella’s parents getting divorced is a very transformative moment for her because her
In “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, she describes a series of events throughout her life that all relate to her relationship with her father. Cisneros begins her story by talking about how she was seen as “only a daughter”. She then transitions to talking about her education and her father’s opinion on what it is for and worth. Cisneros then ends it with a conclusion between her and her father which involved one of her stories. Throughout the story, Cisneros talks about what she believed her father thought about her and her career choices, and they turn out to be a bit different than what she thought.
In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, main character Billie Jo faces several challenging obstacles throughout her lifetime. Getting through these obstacles is the only way Billie Jo can learn to forgive her father as well as herself for their mistakes. Once she learns to stop feeling resentful, and let go, Billie Jo will be able to grow up. The first major challenge Billie Jo faces is when a fire breaks out in her home. The fire ignites when Billie Jo’s mother mistakes a pail of kerosene for water, where,“instead of making coffee, Ma [makes] a rope of fire”(87).
The Secret Lives of People The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, is an interesting story that connects human lives to bees. The story takes place in 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and fourteen year-old Lily Owens leaves her abusive father and her home in Sylvan, South Carolina to go to Tiburon with hopes to find information on her mother. Throughout the story, Lily struggles with many internal conflicts and also meets several mother figures along the way.
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Sound is embodied in the black body whether it be in everyday conversation, intimate exchanges with a loved one, heart wrenching calls, or music rendered from the soul. Sound is essential to living beings as both a primary and secondary sense used to interact with the world. Sound enables communication. Communication creates community. Community leads to emotional connections and understanding.
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The Beatles were undoubtedly one of the best song composers of the twentieth century. Their countless number of hits have motivated and inspired millions of songwriters and fans all throughout the world. “Hey Jude” is certainly one of their most popular songs of all time. Not only has the track been recognized as one of the Beatles’ greatest songs of all time, but has been influential enough to be classified as an anthem. What was is about “Hey Jude” that was so captivating, and influential in rock and roll history?