Summary At work the next morning, Scott attempts to clarify the difference between Will’s “hooking up” and “getting back together” with Ashley. As they change the oil in a customer’s car in Will’s father’s oil and brake shop, Will cautiously mentions Ronnie, who Scott immediately dismisses. During the day, Will’s […]
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Summary Ronnie is angry because she had the cops called on her. Storming into the house, Ronnie confronts her father, who unsuccessfully tries to redirect the conversation toward the topic of Marcus. Looking for a response, Ronnie hurls a photograph across the room. Steve responds by sending his daughter to […]
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Summary Chapter 5 opens with Will thinking about the weight of a secret that he is carrying. His friend Scott apparently started the fire that destroyed the church, and Blaze, Marcus, Teddy, and Lance witnessed the accident. After bumping into Ronnie, Will cannot get her off his mind and wants […]
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Summary Later in the evening, after the show on the pier, Marcus is thinking about how girls tend to follow him. He considers girls to be predictable and stupid. The only reason Marcus is keeping Blaze around is because she is good in bed. He sends her out for fries […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 4 – MarcusSummary and Analysis Chapter 3 – Ronnie
Summary Ronnie is now at the Beach Seafood Festival. Although she is disenchanted with the festival and the pier in its entirety, she is intrigued by the abandoned puppies at the SPCA booth. While talking with the woman at the booth, Ronnie hears the roar of the crowd watching the […]
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Summary This chapter shifts to the perspective of Steve, Ronnie’s father. As it begins, he waits for his children’s arrival while playing the piano. There is not much in the house where Steve now lives. Steve’s life has changed a lot since his father died — he quit his job, […]
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Summary Chapter 1 takes place six months prior to the Prologue. Ronnie and her brother are being driven to North Carolina to spend the summer with their father. Ronnie, who is accustomed to living in New York, dreads having to spend her summer in North Carolina and is doing her […]
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Summary The Last Song opens with Ronnie staring out of her window, remembering the installation of a stained-glass window over a month ago. She wonders if Pastor Harris is already at the church and thinks of how the beach had fascinated her younger brother Jonah during the summer. As she […]
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Veronica “Ronnie” Miller The 17-year-old protagonist; at the beginning of the novel, Ronnie is angry at her parents, who are separated, and resents having to spend the summer with her father. During the summer, however, Ronnie gains a new appreciation for family, life, faith, and love, as she develops from […]
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The Last Song is the story of Ronnie Miller and the summer that she spends with her father at Wrightsville Beach. At the start of the summer, she is a rebellious 17 year old who resents her parents for their messy divorce; she is particularly annoyed that she is being […]
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