Kristen


 * __The Last Song By Nicholas Sparks__**
 * Pages Read: 0 - 110
 * **Title:** ** New Place, New friends, New enemies **
 * **Date:** 4-28-10


 * **Significant Quote:** "Her mom forbade Ronnie from seeing or speaking to Rick ever again, a rule that Ronnie broke the next day. It wasn't that she loved Rick; frankly, she didn't even like him that much. But she was angry at her mom, and it felt right at the time. But when she got to Rick's place, he was already stoned and drunk again, just as he had been at the concert, and she realized if she continued to see him, he'd continue to preasure her to try whatever he was taking, just as he had done the night before." (Sparks 30)


 * **Explanation**: This is one of the most significant quotes in the passage I read. This is about the main character Ronnie, who was once a piano prodigy. After her parents divorce, she stopped playing the piano for good and rebeled against her parents. I thought that this quote portayed who Ronnie really well because she was a smart girl who knew what was best for her and she knew that drugs just messed up people. Even though she knew this, she still hung out with people that did bad things including drugs but the biggest reason she started hanging out with this crowd was to go against her mother and her father's authority. After the divorce, she went against her parents rule and she did things that they wouldn't want her to do, so she could get back at them. She did things to hurt them but she was a smart girl who knew her boundries to keep herself from hitting rock bottom.


 * **Hot Q: Why do you think the mean blonde girl hated Ronnie from the beggining when she didn't even know her?** I think that this girl was threatened by Ronnie because she was a new girl who could threaten her chance of staying with the boy she liked, Will. I also beleive that she jugded her to soon on her appearence and didn't think she would fit in with her groups of friends.


 * **Connectioin-** I can connect with the main character Ronnie beacuse when i was in kindergarden, I moved to Brookfield from Danbury and on my first day of school, i was very lonely because i didn't know anyone. When Ronnie went to go live with her dad during the summer, she was al alone, because she totally ignored her dad and had no one there for her.