1. During the novel is explains a lot about volleyball considering that the main character and love intrest Will, is involved in volleyball touraments and actually competes against the best of the best teams. It explains during Will's pracitces certain volleyball techniques and I can relate to them and recognize certain ones because I used to play volleyball. I played volleyball in middle school and although I only stuck with it for a year, I remember some of the things I learned there. There was quite a bit they taught us and if we didn’t understand or get it right we werent able to play in the actual games. So, I can connect to the volleyball parts of the novel where they explain there matches and what they need to pracitce on for there major game towards the end of the summer, such as dives.
2. Tree hugger and animal lover could describe Ronnie in two words. She gets a day job at the marine to spend time with the marine animals which she loves and is interested in those sorts of things. The enitre summer she has a project and it is to protect the sea turtles that are becoming extinct and have nested on the beach in her backyard. She takes care of them and even stays outside to watch them at night. I would also desribe myself as a tree hugger or animal lover, although I don’t stay outside to take care of turtles I adore animals. We have had so many stray dogs and cats in and out of my house because I don’t have the heart to just let them be. Also, I like to recycle when I can and use products that are good for our enviroment.
3. Ronnies dad is a kind, carefree, father- type, dreamer type of dad. He always looks toward the bright side of things and never focuses on the bad, exactly like Ronnies father had throughout the book just less sever, cause Ronnies dad was facing a serious disease. Both don’t know how to cook but try too and both force you into things they know you have an act for. There men and don’t always say the right thing but have good intentions and a good heart. My dad is a not a realist at all and it seemed to me like neither was Ronnie’s. There just overall a lot alike and I could connect to the way her father had treated her throughout the novel.
4. In the novel Ronnie and Jonah lose their father due to Lung Cancer towards the end of the novel. They face all his hard times with him although he only wanted them to come down to enjoy one last summer with him before he knew his time was up. One day their outside watching the turtles be born, which is a really significant part in the book and her father starts coughing up blood instantly. He faces weeks in the hospitals, different treatments, pain and facing the fact that his time is coming to an end. I can relate to the feeling of a family members death due to cancer. My Grandmother who was only in her late fifties had died from breast cancer only two years ago. She had cancer for an ongoing couple of years and it would come back and then go again. Like Ronnie’s father she was always in and out of hospitals spending weeks at a time or there everyday for treatments. She drove clear to State College at least every week and sometimes she was too weak to drive so my mother or step dad would have to drive her there. I can relate to the experience of losing a loved one to cancer.
5. The relationship between Ronnie and her little brother Jonah reminds me of my relationship with my own little brother, Andrew. My little brother Andy is a freshman this year so there isn’t a big age gap like there is with Jonah. But in the novel it explains stories of how they had gotten along when Ronnie was younger and were best friends kind of like my brother and I. When we were younger we were always together. In “The Last Song” Ronnie and Jonah fight back and forth and he covers for her but puts a price on it because he can. They fight and argue mildly but when it comes down to it they love each other. When Ronnie needs money to buy a dress to attend Will’s sister Megan’s wedding, Jonah willingly gives up his saved up money from covering Ronnie over the years and gives it to her, 200 dollars. The relationships are similar and while I was reading the book I was reminded of how my brother would act or how we treat each other.
2. Tree hugger and animal lover could describe Ronnie in two words. She gets a day job at the marine to spend time with the marine animals which she loves and is interested in those sorts of things. The enitre summer she has a project and it is to protect the sea turtles that are becoming extinct and have nested on the beach in her backyard. She takes care of them and even stays outside to watch them at night. I would also desribe myself as a tree hugger or animal lover, although I don’t stay outside to take care of turtles I adore animals. We have had so many stray dogs and cats in and out of my house because I don’t have the heart to just let them be. Also, I like to recycle when I can and use products that are good for our enviroment.
3. Ronnies dad is a kind, carefree, father- type, dreamer type of dad. He always looks toward the bright side of things and never focuses on the bad, exactly like Ronnies father had throughout the book just less sever, cause Ronnies dad was facing a serious disease. Both don’t know how to cook but try too and both force you into things they know you have an act for. There men and don’t always say the right thing but have good intentions and a good heart. My dad is a not a realist at all and it seemed to me like neither was Ronnie’s. There just overall a lot alike and I could connect to the way her father had treated her throughout the novel.
4. In the novel Ronnie and Jonah lose their father due to Lung Cancer towards the end of the novel. They face all his hard times with him although he only wanted them to come down to enjoy one last summer with him before he knew his time was up. One day their outside watching the turtles be born, which is a really significant part in the book and her father starts coughing up blood instantly. He faces weeks in the hospitals, different treatments, pain and facing the fact that his time is coming to an end. I can relate to the feeling of a family members death due to cancer. My Grandmother who was only in her late fifties had died from breast cancer only two years ago. She had cancer for an ongoing couple of years and it would come back and then go again. Like Ronnie’s father she was always in and out of hospitals spending weeks at a time or there everyday for treatments. She drove clear to State College at least every week and sometimes she was too weak to drive so my mother or step dad would have to drive her there. I can relate to the experience of losing a loved one to cancer.
5. The relationship between Ronnie and her little brother Jonah reminds me of my relationship with my own little brother, Andrew. My little brother Andy is a freshman this year so there isn’t a big age gap like there is with Jonah. But in the novel it explains stories of how they had gotten along when Ronnie was younger and were best friends kind of like my brother and I. When we were younger we were always together. In “The Last Song” Ronnie and Jonah fight back and forth and he covers for her but puts a price on it because he can. They fight and argue mildly but when it comes down to it they love each other. When Ronnie needs money to buy a dress to attend Will’s sister Megan’s wedding, Jonah willingly gives up his saved up money from covering Ronnie over the years and gives it to her, 200 dollars. The relationships are similar and while I was reading the book I was reminded of how my brother would act or how we treat each other.