The Movie

In the movie has played Miley Cyrus and she have writte a song for the story and the movie. (http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2433549337/)

Recount

In your own words what happened in the book? At any point in the story, retell the major details of the story's plot so far. (summary)

The parents of the 17-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller have broken up, and her father Steve has moved from New York to the country. Ronnie is disappointed because her father left the family back alone. After she was caught shoplifting for the first time, she thought that she would have to spend the summer holidays with her brother Jonah and her father. But she does not realize that the real issue is different. Her father is suffering from stomach cancer that has already spread to the lung and probably wants to spend the last summer of his life with his children. Steve leads a simple life and devotes his time to the completion of a stained-glass window of the village church. It was destroyed in a mysterious fire where Pastor Harris, a good friend of Ronnie's father nearly lost his life. Jonah finds pleasure in tinkering with his father to spend the time. Steve still feels the distance between his daughter and him.

Ronnie meets the self-conscious Will, to whom it is repellent, as to most people. On the beach, she finds a clutch of eggs of sea turtles. In order to protect it from raccoons, she now sleeps on the beach. When Ronnie asks the aquarium for support, it turns out, that Will is working there as a volunteer. The two eventually find common ground, and Ronnie can finally enjoy the holiday. But Will's family and his friends are not excited about the meeting with Ronnie, so that their feelings for each other are put to the test. When Ronnie's father gets a coughing fit and collapses, Ronnie finds out that he has long been suffering from stomach cancer and has only a few months left to live. In addition, it comes out that Ronnie's father has not set the fire in the church, as suggested by the villagers, but Will's friend Scott witnessed was when Marcus had set a fire there. Ronnie begins to play the piano again and reconcile with her father. After Steve has died, Ronnie returns back to New York and there was caused by the Juilliard School, from which she had been observed and has received a scholarship after graduating from school. There her father also taught.

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Recount

List the most important things about the text you are reading.

Ronnie's father is seriously ill. He has stomach cancer which has spread to the lungs au. His children knew nothing of it and that this is the reason for their stay with him.
One evening, Steve gets a fit of coughing and spitting blood too, they drive him to the hospital immediately. In the hospital experience Ronnie and her little brother Jonah, the brutal truth. 
Ronnie wonders how well she knows her father actually. She loves him, and knows not what they could compare with him where they could find more information about him.
She is desperate and is so afraid about him. How long will it stay still? The doctors said there was already a miracle that he survived until now; there would be no cure for him.

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Analyses

Name 5 of the main themes of the noval or play.


1. Ronnies parents has divide as Ronnie was 14 years old and Ronnie hate her father for that. 3 years had she ignore him. As Ronnie was 17-years old she has to go with her brother for the summer to her father.

2. Ronnies father is ill. He has stomach cancer and it is so big that it has corrode the lung. It will be his last summer with his children.

3. The village chuch is fire down. And Steve does handycraft a new window for the church with his son.

4. Ronnie is falling in Love with Will. She love him, because he is a good boy and there are very happy togheter.

5. Ronnie is a good pianist, but since her father has left her alone, she hate it and don't want to play evermore.

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Empathy

Choose an important moment in the story for one of the characters and write a diary entry for that character (ie.  what that character would put into his or her personal diary for that day when the important thing happened). Try to write in a style you think fits the character's personality.

-> Blaze
Today I met Ronnie, she is a lovely girl. I like her, but she flirts with Marcus. I really know that not she began and thats not her fault, but I'm so angry.

A day after

Today I've seen her in the Musicshop and I was so angry that Marcus like her... I really didn't want to do this, but I had to do it. I thinked after feel me better, but it wasn't so. She will be in troubles. Not really I would do this. I' so sorry.
I shouldn't stick CD's in her pocket.

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Reflection

Write about something in the story (character or plot) that you wish you had (or had more of) in your own life.
Ronnie is sure of herself. She doesn't smoke and she doesn't drink alcohol. She fights for her sake.
I wish, I were like her. I drink alcohol sometimes, although I don't tolerate it. My body and my mind react very strongly to alcohol. I also wish I were more fight for my life and my sake.

Ronnie has found her big love, without to search it.
I want to find my big love. I want a friend, who is my best friend. I want a friend, who I can tell all about me. I want to fall in love with a boy, who likes me.

Write about what you are learning personally as a result of reading this text.
I learned that not everthing is naturally.
  ...That we have to fight for our sake and our life.
  ...That it isn't easy to life. That love is importent for us.
  ...And thats very easy to make an worse conscience.

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Empathy

Write down 5 questions you would like to ask the author. Say why you would like to ask these questions.
The author is Nicholas Sparks.
Did you know that you always wanted to be writer?
When you had realized that you wanted to be writer?
How it happened that you were a writer? And why love books?
How long it went on, until you were famous?
Where do you write your books and how inspire you?

-> I'm very interested about those questions, because I want to write a book even once. A book over my life and with the problems from a child, who is alone, because the others bullying her. I want to write about love in the family and about a group in their all can be how they want, they can be themselves.

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Prediction

At any point in the story take a guess as to how the story (plot) will go on or finally conclude. What is going to happen.
Ronnie had a nice day with Will. They were in the Aquarium and in the afternoon, they were fishing. In the evening had Will a volleyball game with his friend Scott. Ronnie had watched it and spoke with Ashley, who told her that Will is a player. He exploits girls.
Ronnie believes it and went home. She doesn’t want speak with him and he waits 4 hours in the front of the house.

I think she goes outside and doesn’t want to say what happened and then when she finds out that Ashley has lied, she is ashamed that she believed her. She will feel awful and doesn’t put out a word, but after them she will apologize to him, even if it requires overcoming.
I think they will fall in love.

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Analysis

Write about the style of writing the author uses.

The book is a novel, a romance. In the past tense and in the She-Form is The Last Song written. It haves 37 chapters and each chapter is written by a different person. I’ve prefer it, because you can empathize a little bit in each other and will receive a much larger trading range than just a main character.

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Characterization

Describe a character from the book (e.g. physical characteristics, personality, likes, dislikes). Say why you like / dislike the character.




Ronnie is a very difficult and sensitive person. She is a vegetarian, because she can’t eat animal, which died for her that she can eat them. She can assess people well.

She hate her father at beginning from book and she have to live with him for the summer.
At this summer are Ronnie 17 years. She lives at Manhattan NY with her mom and her younger brother.

 

 I love the character from Ronnie, because she don't swim with the others. She is herself.

 

Jonah is Ronnie’s younger brother. She loves him although he stressed out. He is 10 years old.

Jonah is interesting at all about life, family and just seeing things and taking it. He can make any situation interesting or crazy.

 

Steve is Ronnie’s father and he loves his children. He lives at the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina. 

He is someone who cares mostly about other people. He is the type to pursue in dreams and take things seriously.

 

Kim is Ronnie’s mother, which makes many provide about her.

 

Will Blakelee is a boy how is rich and he falls in love with Ronnie.

Scott is the best friend from Will and isn’t agreeing with his new girlfriend, because he loves Cassie and she is only to have with Ashley. Ashley is ex-girlfriend of Will. But Will don’t want Ashley back, because he don’t love her and she is superficial.

 

Blaze will a friend from Ronnie at the beginning of the story and she love Marcus. Blaze doesn't want friends, but she needs friends. She is the type who goes along with the crowd and will do anything to stay with the crowd since she is kicked out of her house and out of options.

 

Marcus thinks he can get what he wants with intimidation and intensity. He is disturbed and enjoys violence (like they say Adolph Hitler was) He doesn't understand when he's wrong, and if someone disagrees with him, they are the wrong ones. Never him. He needs to get his way.








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Reflection

Write down your first impressions of the book or play. Ask some questions. write down questions. Copy whole passages that are difficult or that you really like a lot.
I watched the movie for a year, but I think the book is not the same as the movie. I think the book is very interesting to read and I think I’ll laugh.
What will be different in the book than in the movie?

The book is for me not so easy to understand, but I think I’ll love the story, because I love the books from the writer Nicholas Sparks.

Ronnie’s life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York to Wilmington, North Carolina. Since then she has remained angry and alienated from her parents, until her mother decides she should spend the summer with her father.

Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher in the Juilliard School of Music, is living a quiet life in the beach town; immersed in creating a work of art that (church window) will become the centre piece of a local church. 


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The Last Song -> Englishauftrag

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