![]() Ronnie refers to holidays in the Prologue, and she must mean Christmas - there is the mention of Christmas trees, as well as the fact that last month was November. ![]() The Last Song is told not only from Ronnie's perspective but also as a limited-omniscient, third-person narrative, with the perspective changing from chapter to chapter. The Last Song begins after the major action of the plot has already occurred, so most of the novel is actually told as a flashback. Then Ronnie prepares to tell both her mother and readers about her summer. The aforementioned Pastor Harris was the man injured in the blaze. The newspaper article tells the story of a church that was destroyed, presumably through the careless use of illegal fireworks. ![]() Ronnie's mother encourages her to talk about what is on her mind, commenting that Ronnie has been mostly silent for the past couple of days.īits and pieces of information about the past summer are mentioned - a betrayal, an arrest, falling in love, turtles - and then Ronnie shares a newspaper clipping with her mother. As she ponders these things, her silence is interrupted by her mother. She wonders if Pastor Harris is already at the church and thinks of how the beach had fascinated her younger brother Jonah during the summer. ![]() The Last Song opens with Ronnie staring out of her window, remembering the installation of a stained-glass window over a month ago. ![]()
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