The Last Song Summary

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The novel I read was called The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Ronnie Miller, the main character lives in New York City with her Mom and brother, Jonah since her father left the family. She is unwillingly sent to stay with her Dad in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina with her brother for the summer, for a reason she will soon find out. The only thing that Ronnie has in common with her father is music. She hasn’t played the piano since he left them and she doesn’t plan on it. When he constantly plays the piano, she threatens to leave unless he boards it up behind a wooden wall, so he does. On Ronnie’s first day there she was walking on the beach, as one of the volley ball players, Will, bumps into her spilling her drink all over herself. She meets Blaire while looking for a new shirt and she introduces Ronnie to her boyfriend, Marcus, who starts to flirt with Ronnie. Marcus does shows on the boardwalk with balls lit on fire. Will see’s Ronnie all over town, and after some hard work, Will finally starts hanging out with Ronnie. Ronnie called the aquarium to put a cage around some baby sea turtle eggs that she found on the beach so that the raccoons wouldn’t eat them. Will volunteers and the aquarium, so he came and to mark the nest and they ended up spending the night together on the beach. From then on, they hung out every day and fell in love. Blaire saw how Marcus talked to Ronnie, so she jealously put an old record in Ronnie’s bag at a shop on the board walk knowing that she would get in a lot of trouble because she had been arrested for shop lifting back in New York. Ronnie’s dad surprises her when he believes that she did not steal the record. His understanding ways made her more accepting of her father. Ronnie’s father was blamed for falling asleep in the church while playing the piano, and knocking a candle over causing a fire. Will’s best friend, Scott,
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