MYRIAD LOVE
A story of love in its myriad forms – first love, love between parents and children – The Last Song shows that love can break our hearts and heal them. This novel was published in 2009 by the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Nicholas Sparks and became a movie last 2010 directed by Julie Ann Robinson starring Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus.
The Last Song is a story of seventeen-year old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller whose life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, particularly her father… until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she and her younger brother, Jonah spent the summer with him in North Carolina.
Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will be the centerpiece of a local church. Resentful and rebellious, Ronnie rejects all of his attempts to reach out to her and threatens to return to New York before the summer’s end. But soon Ronnie meets Will, the town’s local heartthrob, and the last person she thought she’d ever be attracted to. As Ronnie slowly lets her guard down, she finds herself falling deeply in love, opening herself up to the greatest happiness and pain – that she has ever known.
At the end of the story, Ronnie’s father died and she discovered that her father was creating a song for her. So, at the last day of her father’s funeral, Ronnie played the song with her own melody. Ronnie was a pianist way back then in her childhood days mentored by his own dad. Jonah is the one who finished the centerpiece his father was creating for the local church of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. And in that church is where their father was buried.
Because of the love that captured Ronnie’s heart as she stayed with her father and brother, Jonah at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina and with the experiences and people she met there especially Will, she learned how to forgive and share the greatest song of her life.
“Love is fragile. And we’re not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.” - Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
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“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” - Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song