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Plot Works cited page!!! //The Last Song// revolves around seventeen year old Ronnie Miller, who is sent by her mother to spend the summer after graduation with her ten-year-old brother, Jonah, visiting her father, Steve. Steve, a former [|Juilliard] professor, had divorced Ronnie's mother, Kim, three years earlier and left New York City for his childhood home, [|Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina]. Ever since, Ronnie has refused to talk to him or to play their shared passion, the piano, and becomes a rebellious [|clubber]. Upon arrival, Jonah immediately bonds with Steve over a [|stained glass window] that Steve has been recreating for the local church after the original burned down in a mysterious arson. Ronnie, however, is hostile. At her request, Steve boards up his beloved piano and instead pursues his search for [|God's presence]. He also begins writing a piano composition using a piano owned by the church, but struggles with its ending. At the town's annual carnival, Ronnie collides with beach volleyball player Will Blakelee as he dives for a ball. Ronnie storms off and meets [|gothic] Blaze (whose real name is Galadriel), who befriends Ronnie and introduces her to Marcus, Blaze's [|abusive] boyfriend, and his cronies, Lance and Teddy. The three thugs earn money by putting on [|fire juggling] performances for beach crowds. Blaze is crushed when Marcus becomes interested in Ronnie, and retaliates by [|framing] Ronnie for shoplifting and violating a [|probation] agreement. Marcus offers to make Blaze confess if Ronnie has [|sex] with him, but Ronnie refuses. Ronnie later confronts Blaze, and although Blaze admits she was wrong, she is trapped: she has been [|kicked out] by her mother and is staying with Marcus, who forbids her to confess. Steve surprises Ronnie by believing her when she tells him she was framed, and she begins to soften towards him. Steve shows Ronnie, a vegetarian and animal lover, a [|Loggerhead Sea Turtle] nest Jonah found near their home. Ronnie vows to protect the endangered creatures, bringing her back in contact with Will, an aquarium volunteer. Marcus still carries on harassing Ronnie and starts creeping her out. Will takes out Ronnie on a "non date" which Ronnie enjoys. However, Ashley (Will`s ex girlfriend) stirs up trouble. A major fight between Will and Ronnie follows. However, they soon sort out their differences, and fall in love. They spend several blissful months together, though their romance is troubled; Will's mother and his ex-girlfriend attempt to drive them apart, and Scott, Will's best friend and beach volleyball partner, is annoyed that Will is not practicing for their upcoming tournament. Marcus continues antagonizing Ronnie and [|blackmails] Will with his knowledge of the secret that Scott was responsible for the church arson. Will and Ronnie also worry about the looming end of summer, which brings with it Will's leave for [|Vanderbilt University] and Ronnie's shoplifting trial. Ronnie attends Will's sister's wedding. Ronnie and Will begin to wander away to Will's boat for privacy, but are accosted by Marcus. Marcus goads Will into a fight which wrecks the wedding reception. Worried that the rich and powerful Blakelees will press charges, Marcus decides to raise money to leave town by putting on the most dangerous fire-juggling act the next day, the same day as Will's volleyball tournament. The act begins properly, but Blaze misses a catch and her shirt catches fire. Her screams and the flames attract the attention of the volleyball tournament crowd, including Ronnie and Will. As they drive Blaze to the hospital, Marcus and his crew steal away. Will goes to Bower's Point to seek revenge for Blaze (as he and she were friends in elementary school), and finds Marcus, Teddy, and Lance around a fire drinking beers. He fights with the three of them and right in the middle of beating up Marcus Ronnie stops Will, telling him Marcus isn't worth ruining his life over. Afterward, Scott accuses Will of ruining his life and Will walks out, telling Scott he needs to reveal the truth behind what he has done. Jonah and Ronnie notice Steve is becoming progressively weaker. They are shocked when he begins to [|cough up blood] the same night the Loggerhead nest hatches. Steve reveals the reason he asked them to visit: he is dying of [|stomach cancer], with only a few months left to live. Ronnie is further stressed when Will reveals Scott's secret, causing her to furiously break up with Will two days before he leaves for Vanderbilt. However, she reconciles with Blaze; Blaze confesses to framing Ronnie, but is released as an [|informant] when she reveals the church arsonist was Marcus, rather than Scott. Later, a news report of Marcus' arrest comes on as Ronnie is watching the news. At the end of summer, Kim and Steve insist Jonah returns to school, but Ronnie refuses to leave. Months pass, and Steve's health deteriorates. Ronnie takes Steve to see them install the stained-glass window in the church when construction resumed because the Blakelees decide to anonymously fund the rebuilding of the church. With no word from Will, Ronnie determines their time together is over. Ronnie grows closer to Steve and secretly finishes his composition for him. In Steve's final days, Ronnie breaks down the boarding around Steve's piano, with Blaze's help, and uses it to play the composition. Following Steve's funeral, Ronnie moves back to New York, auditions for [|Juilliard], and is told her audition was "very promising". Ronnie is amazed to receive a visit from Will in New York, who said on the day of the funeral that Steve needed her more. He reveals he has transferred to [|Columbia], which, like Juilliard, is in New York.

** The Story ** Ronnie’s father, Steve, has been divorced from her mother for over three years. While Ronnie and her younger brother, Jonah, live in New York with their mother, Steve lives in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Although it is the last place on earth that she wants to be, Ronnie is forced to spend a summer with Jonah at her dad’s beach-side home. Steve is a professional pianist who once taught at Julliard. Since his family was separated, his daughter Ronnie has refused to play the piano to spite her dad. Ronnie is outwardly unhappy about Steve’s home, the piano situated within it, and the full 3 months of visiting that she is facing. For Ronnie, it seems like more of a jail sentence than a summer with her family. With little respect for authority or her father’s rules, Ronnie takes off the moment she arrives at his home. She heads straight down to the boardwalk/pier area where a carnival happens to be in town. Trying to avoid her father and Jonah at the carnival, 17-year old Ronnie heads over to watch a nearby volleyball game. As she casts preconceived ideas into her mind about the crowd and the people of the community, she is suddenly hit by a volleyball player who was in pursuit of the ball. The result of their collision was Ronnie being drenched by her soda. Shortly thereafter, Ronnie meets Blaze, another wayward teenager who helps her out by giving her a dry shirt. The two teens make a connection out of their mutual parent-hating, society-rebelling mind-sets. Blaze introduces Ronnie to her friends, none of which would be “parent-approved.” The worst of the bunch is Marcus, a troublemaker who earns money at the pier and the carnival by tossing fireballs in a show. Marcus & his gang invite Blaze and Ronnie out to Bower’s Point to drink and hang out. Later that night when Will overheard Ronnie’s father talking to Officer Pete about his daughter’s whereabouts, a concerned Will told Pete about the kids being at Bower’s Point. You see, for Will there was something special about that girl, the one with the rebellious streak and the purple stripe in her hair, that he couldn’t let go of… something in her eyes. He was officially intrigued. After the complete and total humiliation of being hauled off Bower’s Point and breaking up the party, Ronnie is brought home by Officer Pete. Considering how badly the first night in Wrightsville Beach was, how would she be able to tolerate the rest of the summer… tormented by her father’s rules, annoyed by an wealthy society where she obviously didn’t fit in, and trying to navigate her way through her friendship with Blaze despite the fact she didn’t approve of Blaze’s friends, especially Marcus. Unexpectedly, Ronnie does discovers a nest of sea turtle eggs in the beach behind her father’s home. It was this nest that led her back to Will, who volunteers at the local aquarium in addition to his volleyball playing days. What she finds in Will is a friend of the truest kind. One that will lead you to being the best person that you can be. veronica "ronnie" millers lives in nyc and is rebellious against her single mother. her mom makes her and her lil brother spend the summer with their dad in n.carolina. she doesnt like her dad bc she thinks he just left the family, but her lil bro doesnt really car and thinks everything is "awesome!". she used to play the piano (her dad was a teacher at juliard) but she refuses to play now, too. she meets this guy, Will, whos a volleyball player and an environmentalist --> all around american boy.kayy, well they start dating, his mom doesnt like her bc shes not good enough (will's rich) but his dad likes her.

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her bad relationship w/ her dad continues, and he also seems to be getting weaker. in addition, her first friend that she met in NC has a boyfriend who likes her and is really really creepy. he tends to stalk her. this guy also "knows" a secet about will's best friend (that he burned the church,which also happens to be the church that ronnies dad went to and is making a glass window for). ummmmm, welll ronnie and will fight over wether his friend should go to the police or not and they end up breaking up. she finds her dad at the almost-newly-constructed church snd he's coughing like crazy. turns out he has stomach cancer. well, through all this and all her trip, she becomes closer to her dad bc even though shes been acting like a *****, her dad has been soooooooooooo nice. then he dies.and b4 he dies, ronnie finishes a LAST SONG of his that he has never been abe to complete will goes somewhere, like to college somewhere or something and she goes back to new york and applies for juliard. then will calls her and is like "i applied for this great environmental program" and she's like where? and hes like colombiaaa. so they end up together. the end.