An Analysis Of Intrinsic Elements In Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Last Song

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AN ANALYSIS OF INTRINSIC ELEMENTS IN NICHOLAS

SPARKS’ NOVEL THE LAST SONG

PAPER

BY:

JOAN SULASNI

REG. NO.102202010

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA

FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDIES

DIPLOMA III ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM

MEDAN

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Submitted to Faculty of Culture Studies, Universityof North Sumatera in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Diploma (D-III) in English

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NIP. 19521126198112 1 001 Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, M.A.

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Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera

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Accepted by The Board of Examiners in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Diploma III (D-III) of English Study Program, Faculty of Culture Studies, University of North Sumatera.

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AUTHOR'S DECLARATION

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bismillahirrahmaanirrahiim

First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God Allah SWT for blessing and giving me opportunity, health, and ability to accomplish this paper. Afterwards, invocations and greetings I deliver to the last Prophet

Muhammad SAW who has brought us into the time of humanities.

I would like to thank to Dr. SyahronLubis, M. A. as the Dean of Faculty of Culture Studies. Then, I would like to thank to Dr. Matius C. A. Sembiring, M. A.,the Head of Diploma III English Study Program, who has shared his time to guide me in the process of my study. I would like to dedicate a deep gratitude to my supervisor,for the valuable time to give the correct and give constructive criticisms in completing this paper. Then, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to all lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for their valuable guidance and knowledge that they have gave to me during my study.

The most special thank is dedicated to my beloved parents, my father,

Misno and my mother, Rospita Br Siregar who have given me love, cares, advices, supports, and always pray for me in order to get my best. To my beloved my sister and young brother thanks for the love, cares, advices, and motivations that you have given to me. Then, I would like to thank to all of my lecturers in English Diploma Study for their attention and advices to me. I thank them very

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much for their knowledge. I really appreciate that. Then to my all friends in English Diploma III 2010, and the others friends, thank you very much for all of you, for your attention and support to me.

Finally, I realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefore, I welcome any constructive criticisms and suggestions towards to this paper.

Medan, , 2013

The writer,

Reg. No. 102202010 Joan Sulasni

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ABSTRACT

The paper entitled “An Analysis of Intrinsic Element in Nicholas Sparks’ Novel The Last Song describes about the intrinsic elements including theme, character, plot, setting, and point of view. This novel is one of Nicholas Sparks’ novels that tells about Ronnie Miller, as the main character in this novel, is stubborn and rebellious, who is quickly approaching womanhood without any plans for her life. Ronnie is furious when she and her younger brother are shipped to their father’s house for the summer. She hasn’t spoken to her dad since he left three years ago, and is far from happy to hear that she’ll be living with him. Ronnie arrives at her dad’s in a foul mood, but soon begins to view her visit there as a gift rather than a punishment. Her father is patient and kind with her, and she starts to regret having pushed him away for so long.

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ABSTRAK

Kertaskarya yang berjudul“An Analysis of Intrinsic Element in Nicholas Sparks’Novel The Last Song inimembahastentangunsur intrinsik termasuktema, karakter, alurcerita, latar, dansudutpandang. Novel iniadalah salah satu novel Nicholas Sparks yang menceritakantentang Ronnie Miller, sebagaipemeranutama di novel ini,adalahseorang yang keras kepala danpemberontak, yangdengan cepatmendekatimasakewanitaantanpa rencanauntuk hidupnya. Ronniesangat marahketika ia danadik laki-lakinyadikirim kerumahayah merekauntuk musim panas. Diabelum berbicara denganayahnyasejak ayahnyameninggalkanmerekatiga tahun lalu, danjauh darirasa senang mendengar bahwadia akantinggal bersamaayahnya. Ronnietiba dirumahayahnyadalam suasana hati yangburuk,tapi segeramulaiterlihatkunjungannyaadalahsebagai hadiahdaripadahukuman. Ayahnyasabar dan baikterhadap dia, dan dia mulaimenyesal telahmendorongnya jauhbegitu lama.

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Table of Contents in Paper

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION……… i

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION….……… ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………..………….………...……… iii

ABSTRACT………...……….… v

ABSTRAK………..… vi

TABLE OF CONTENT……… vii

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the Study ……….… 1

1.2Problem of the Study……… 2

1.3Scope of the Study……… 2

1.4Method of the Study……….… 2

1.5Reason for choosing the topic ……….……. 3

1.6Purpose of the Study…..………... 3

2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 NOVEL... 4

2.2 THEME... 5

2.3 PLOT... 5

2.4 CHARACTER... 6

2.5 SETTING... 8

2.6 POINT OF VIEW... 9

3. AN ANALYSIS OF INTRINSIC ELEMENTS 3.1THEME……… 10

3.2PLOT……… 11

3.3MAIN CHARACTER………. 14

3.4SUPPORTING CHARACTER………... 12

3.5 SETTING...……… 16

3.6 POINT of VIEW... 17

4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1CONCLUSIONS……… 18

4.2SUGGESTIONS……….……… 19

REFERENCES……… 20

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ABSTRACT

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ABSTRAK

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1. INTRODUCTION

a. Background of the Study

Literature has many kinds or ‘genres’ such as poerty, novel and drama. Novel has extrinsic and intrinsic elements. The reason why the writer choose to discus intrinsic elements in a novel because, in the absence of these elements, it can not be called a novel.

The elements are connected all together and give a total meaning. A literary work can be analysed only by using these elements because it has an autonomy right.

The intrinsic elements to be discussed in this small paper are theme, plot, character, setting, and point of view. The story of the novel is always collected from the social life, it talks about marriage, divorce, love, education, jobs, even talks about nature and animals.

This novel titled ‘The last Song’ is important to be discussed because love has the power in human life. It can make a better life , it can change a broken family to be united again. Love can change hatred becomes understanding and tolerance.

Love among the young people can motivate them to study harder to make more friends, to understand more people and to understand their own family, mother, father, and sister or brothers.

Finally, the write haS decided to write this paper entitled The Analysis of Intrinsic Elements In Nicholas Sparks Novel The Last Song.

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b. The Problem of the study

The scope of the study is how to get the whole meaning in which one element and the other element is related in the novel.

c. Scope of the Study

The writer is to find out whether one element and the other element is related in the novel. In writing this paper, the writer tries to get whether the novel entitled “ The Last Song “ covers some step which include the intrinsic elements namely theme, character, plot, setting, and point of view.

d. Method of the Study

In writing this paper the writer uses some research methods, such as data collecting method and method of data analysis. In data collecting, the sources of data were taken from books and other sources such as internet and literary criticism. Since this research is focused on documented data, the research is better known as library research. The method of analysis is descriptive in terms of describing the intrinsic elements as portrayed in the novel The Last Song. The intrinsic elements become the data of this study such as theme, character, plot, setting, and point of view. The description covers some steps which are related to intrinsic elements found in it.

e. Reasons for Choosing The Topic

The writer chooses the topic because :

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• The topic of the novel is taken from a song told inside the story created for a special person.

• The novel talks about love and broken family which can happen in every person life.

• The writer tries to know whether intrinsic elements namely theme, plot, setting, character, point of view are related in the novel.

f. Purpose of the Study

The purpose of writing this paper:

a. To fulfill one of the requirements I for Diploma III English Study Program.

b. By writing this paper, the writer wants to explore and find out how the author described the intrinsic element that found in “The Last Song” novel by Nicholas Sparks.

c. The paper can be used as reference for further study for those who are interested in doing the same work.

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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE a. NOVEL

The novel is an impossible history, for history has become impossible. It is powered by a negative utopianism: it creates an image of an artificial reality, but not of a better one as a prophet would. Modern novel are Dystopias, the sting in the tail of the earlier desire to leave this world and so was unable to return to it. (Coates, 1983:17). According to George Watson (1979: 3) “Novel is the name of a literary kind, and there is a story to tell about how, over the centuries, its substance has widened and its conventions changed.”

Novel is a way to send message in social, such as in novel find character that plays role hero and felon. Hero in novel will be success but not felon will be loser. From this message the reader can get inspiration that hero is good but felon is bad. Watson (1979:3-4) said that a novel is a way of learning about how things were or are-cognitive instrument; and those who distrust stories as evidence should consider how often in conversation we use them to make points or answer questions. The end of the novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar plums. That is a plain directive from Trollope to the reader that is novel is a novel, and not record of real events.

Novel intrinsic elements are the elements that build up in the literary works of literature itself. The purpose of the elements that is included in the literary work itself. In general, the intrinsic elements of literary works including novels include theme, plot, characterizations, setting, and point of view.

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b. THEME

The theme is the basic story that dominated the subject matter of a literary work (Suharianto: 2005). Jacobus(1993:18) said thatthe theme of a play is its message, its central concern-in short, what is about. It is by no means a simple thing to decide what the theme of a play is, and many plays contain several rather than just a single theme. Often, the search for a theme tempts us to oversimplify and to reduce a complex play to a relatively simple catchphrase.Thetheme was the starting point in compiling the work of literary authors. This theme is to be conveyed and solved by the author through his story. The theme became the basis of development of the whole story; the theme was nature animates all parts of the story from beginning to end.

c. PLOT

Storyline or plots can be defined as the way the author to establish the events in a row by taking into account the law of cause and effect so it is a unitary piece, round, and intact (Suharianto: 2005). Stanton (1965:14) say, the plot is a story that contains the sequence of events, but each incident is only connected in cause and effect, an event which caused or led to the occurrence of events. The flow of the story consists of introduction, conflict, complication, climax, denouement, and resolution.

Plot is beginning of introduction of the story such as information about the characters. It means dramatic stricter in plot, as Gwynn (2002: 8) said that: When we speak of the dramatic structure of a story, we refer to the exact way in

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introduction about the characters, show the “trouble” in the novel. The trouble is conflict either to him or to another character and to nature. For example the characters get conflict one to other like hate, angry and also fighting.

Plot show the climax of event that is high point the story. In this part determines the ending of story. Gwynn (2002:9) defines, The central moment of crisis in a plot is the climax, or moment of greatest tension, which inaugurates the falling action of the story, in which the built-up tension is finally released.

2.4CHARACTER

Characterization is one of the main element in a story which tells the story of human life with all the miscellaneous life. Character is human being in fiction who plays action in the novel. The character does action like making conversation or doing activities. With that understanding there would have been required as a manifestation of the human figure and his life to be told. The characters in this story will do its job to be "a source story". Figure is a living thing (humans) who have physical and temperament.

Characterizations often called disposition, which is depiction of the characters. This depiction includes a state of physical and spiritual leaders. The situation is a form of birth figures and who the characters, circumstances of birth includes live view of the characters, character attitudes, beliefs, customs, etc.

Character divides two kind, these are protagonist and antagonist. Protagonist is character who craved and doing the good action but antagonist is character that is not desired in life experience because it does the bad attitude. The reflection of human life in a novel is played by character. The reader can imitate the

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good thing from actions of character. Karl (1967: 238) defines that: character is of interest for the very personal reason that we want to see how other people live, how they make decision and react to responsibility, how they pursue their goal. We measure ourselves by them. Think of characters in stories and novels as real people, and then your imagination go.” It means, novel can give effect to reader either good thing or bad thing.

Edgar V. Roberts, (1995: 131) In fiction, a character may be defined as verbal representation of a human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, authors portray characters that are worth caring about, rooting for, and even loving, although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate.

No writer can present an entire life history of a protagonist; nor can each character in a story get “equal time” for development. Accordingly, some characters grow to be full and alive, while others remain shadowy. The British novelist and critic E. M. Forster, in his critical work Aspects of the Novel, calls the two major types “round” and “flat”.

The basic trait of round character is that they recognize, change with, or adjust to circumstances. The round character-usually the main figure in a story-profits from experience and undergoes a change or alteration, which may be shown in (1) an action or actions, (2) the realization of new strength and therefore the affirmation of previous decision, (3) the acceptance of a new condition, or (4) the discovery of unrecognized truth. (Edgar V. Roberts, 1995: 133)

In contrast, flat characters don’t grow. They remain the same because they may be stupid or insensitive or lacking in knowledge or insight. Usually, flat

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characters are minor (e.g. relative, acquaintance, functionaries), although not all minor character are necessarily flat. (Edgar V. Roberts, 1995: 134)

2.5SETTING

All events that occur in human life certainly will not escape from the bondage of space and time. Also in the short story or novel in which it is the telling of human life and all problems. The scene and will continue to establish the timing behavior of the life of every character in the story. Thus it can be interpreted that the background is a place and time of occurrence or the story. Background or setting is often called in literature prose (short stories and novels) not only serves as a pointer place and time of the story. Background in literary prose is also used as a place of extraction of these values to express the author of the story.

According Nurgiyantoro (2004:227-233) background can be divided into three main elements, namely setting the place, time setting, social setting. For safe’s sake, we can say that setting encompasses not only the usual quantities of time and place, as well as the element loosely called background, but also aspect of atmosphere, a series of details, nuances, and gestures, which give a certain shape to theme and plot (Hamalian and Karl,1967:59)

The setting of a play includes many things. First, it refers to the time and place in which the action occurs. Second, it refers to the scenery, the physical elements that appear onstage to vivify the author’s stage directions.

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2.6POINT OF VIEW

Point of view is a picture that displays the life of character. Positioning of characters to display the author of stories about the life of the characters in the story telling is what is called the center (point of view) or sometimes also called the point of view. In general, the central narrative is categorized into 4 types; they are author as the main story, the author come into play but not as a main character, the author of all present, and author of observers.

The vision of a single character use by the author as a central observer or central intelligence through whom anything is cleared. We might call this the

observer’s point of view, though other labels would do as well. All events

observer, and we are allowed to know no more than he can see or sense. He is in a position to tell the reader what he himself thinks or feels about himself or about anything or anyone else, but not what other characters feel or think unless they reveal their thinking or feeling to him through deed or dialogue.This technique, because it arises from the experience of one individual, creates at its best a sense of unity and realism that other techniques rarely approach; at the same time, the limitations of the individual experience reduce the field of vision and do not allow the character at sometime vital juncture of the story to tell us what we may want to know about the responses of the other characters. Finally, there is what is known as the objective point of view. (Hamalian and Karl, 1967: 447-448)

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3. AN ANALYSIS OF INTRINSIC ELEMENTS

a. Theme

The theme of this novel is about love. The main character in the story is named Ronnie Miller. As young women, she is very disappointed that her father suffers from cancer. The family should live separately because the father wants to live in his village near the beach. Ronnie feels trustrated and angry. But when Ronnie meet s Will, a young man who lives near the beach. They be come close friends and working together near the beach, and finally they love each other.

At last Ronnie can understand the problem in her own family. She doesn’t hate her father an mother any more. Now, she can understand her father and she feels sad knowing that the father is so sick because of the cancer, the father may be dead soon. Ronnie tries to care and gives special attention for the father.

So, we can say that love can change hatred becomes understanding, love can change sadness becomes happiness.

Such a picture can be seen in the following statement : Hi, sweetheart

I’m proud of you.

You and Jonah have always been the greatest blessings in my life. I love you, Ronnie, and I’ve always loved you. And never, ever forget that I am, and always have been, proud of you. No father has ever been as blessed as I.

Dad

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b. Plot

Stanton (1965:14) say, “The plot is a story that contains the sequence of events, but each incident is only connected in cause and effect, an event which caused or led to the occurrence of events. The flow of the story consists of introduction, conflict, complication, climax, denouement, and resolution.

Plot show the climax of event that is high point the story. In this part determines the ending of story. Gwynn (2002:9) defines, “The central moment of crisis in a plot is the climax, or moment of greatest tension, which inaugurates the falling action of the story, in which the built-up tension is finally released.”

a. Introduction

Introduction is the beginning stage of a story that began with an event, but there is no information.

In the beginning the story tells about the broken family, the family live separately because the father is sick and moves to his village near the beach. Ronnie the first daughter, 17 year old, feels very disappointed and angry about the problem. She hates the situation why she should face the sadness in the family.

b. Conflict

Conflict, which is actually quite important events (so, it will be functional events, major, or kernel), is an essential element in the development of the plot. Conflict is something that dramatic, referring to the struggle between two forces are balanced and imply action and retaliation (Wellek& Warren, 1989:285) Conflict is the stage where the conflict is taking place between actors.

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When Ronnie meets her father in the beach, she speaks very rudely. She refuses her father offering her to the piano, because the father can play the piano very well and work in church. Ronnie feels hopeless she doesn’t know what to do even at time she spends her vacation at the beautiful beach in the summer. There are many friends who want to play with her but she refuses them. At the moment, she really feels in doubt.

In the beach she only wants to talks to Will. They are working together to help the turtles that are in dangerous situation. Some wild raccoons try to eat the eggs of the turtles. After this event Ronnie and will become close friend and later they love each other

c. Complication

Complication is the stage where the tension begins to feel the growing and complex.

Since Ronnie shoplifted once before in New York, a second conviction would land her in serious trouble. Meanwhile, Steve and Jonah fly kites and enjoy the beach. Steve shows Jonah a stained-glass window he's building for his church. The church burned down several months earlier, injuring his friend and mentor, Pastor Harris. Steve wants to play a meaningful role in restoring the sanctuary where he learned to play piano and heard about God's love. Jonah begs to help with the project, and Steve teaches him to work with the glass. After Ronnie's shoplifting arrest, Steve affirms his belief in her innocence and vows to stand behind her. He shows her a family of endangered sea turtles nesting on the beach near their home. Through these events and other demonstrations of his love and

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concern for her, Ronnie warms up to her dad. Ronnie wants to protect the endangered turtles from the raccoons that often eat their eggs. She sleeps outside to watch the nest. She and Steve call the aquarium the next morning so someone can install a protective cage. The aquarium sends a volunteer named Will, the volleyball player who spilled soda on Ronnie her first night in town.

d. Climax

Conflicts and the climax are of paramount importance in the structure of the plot, both of which are the main elements of plot in fiction. Stanton (1965: 16), is when the conflict has reached the highest level itensitas, and when (it) is something that is inevitable happened.

Climax is the stage where the tension begins to mount ( fate has begun to change in the suspect ).

When Ronnie meets her father in the beach, she doesn’t want to speak with him politely. She refuses her father offering her to play piano, because the father is a skillful pianist who works in their church. Ronnie feels hopeless she doesn’t know what to do even at time she spends her vacation at the beautiful beach in the summer.

e. Resolution

Resolution is the final stage of the story, in this section the final strage of the story contains an explanation for what has happened to the characters after a peak event.

The turtles finally hatch. Ronnie has a moment of joy and satisfaction, seeing such a moving sight with Will, Jonah and her dad. Moments later, blood

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covers Steve's face. He says that he needs to go to the hospital, and he finally reveals he has terminal cancer. He'd asked the kids to spend the summer with him so he could say goodbye. Jonah insists that he, Will and Ronnie should complete Steve's stained glass window.

The summer is ending. Jonah tearfully returns home, and Will prepares to leave for his first semester of college. In her grief, Ronnie breaks up with Will. Now 18, she decides to stay with her dad to care for him during his final months. Blaze comes to the house and thanks Ronnie for helping her. She says she's talked to the police and cleared Ronnie of the shoplifting charges. Will's father provides funding to complete the construction of the church. As Steve's condition deteriorates, he and Ronnie search fervently for God's presence and His peace. Ronnie secretly finishes the song her dad was writing. When he is rushed to the hospital, Ronnie prays for a miracle. Steve wakes up and asks her to take him home. She plays the song for him there, and he realizes God's presence has been with him all along. After he dies, Ronnie returns to New York, where she applies to Juilliard. Will appears and surprises her. He's transferred to a school in the area so they can be together.

c. The Main Character : Ronnie Miller and Will Blecklee

Ronnie Miller is the daughter of Steve and Kim Miller. When Ronnie is still a little girl, she learns to play the piano. She is very clever in playing that instrrument. Her father expects her to be a famous pianist oneday in the future. Her father’s dream can come true after he passes away.

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2. Will Blakelee

Will Blakelee is Ronnie’s boyfriend. He is handsome and many girls like him. Beside popular among students in the university, he becomes volunteer at the Georgia aquarium.

d. Supporting Character

1. Steve Miller

Steve Miller is Ronnie ‘s father , he works as professor in Juilliard school and as a pianist in the church. He from New York to Georgia after divorce. He knowing that his illnes can kill him very soon plans to create a song for he dougther who want to continue her college and expect her to become the famous pianist.

2. Kim

Kim is Ronnie’s mother. 3. Jonah Miller

Jonah is Ronnie’s younger brother. He lives with his mother when her gets education. But is when he gets vacation, he goes to live with his father in Georgia.

4. Marcus

Marcus is a rude man who likes Ronnie. 5. Blaze

Blaze is Ronnie’s friend in Tybee Island. In the begining Ronnie and Blaze are good friend. Finaly they become anemy because Blaze boyfriend like Ronnie.

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6. Ashley

Ashley is the ex-girlfriend of Will and still loves him. Because she has bad manner, Will breaks her up and dates with Ronnie. Seeing Ronnie and Will dating she is very jelous and tries to plan to separate them.

7. Charlie Harris

Charlie Harris is a godly pastor of local church that. He is Steve piano teacher, parental figure and best friend Steve for growing up.

3.5 Setting

Setting take place in the eastern North Carolina.Sparks uses of the setting in The Last Song helps to add to the overall tone of the work. In the town of Wilmington along the Atlantic Coast. The beach plays a large role in the lives of all the characters. It is in fact that the story of life in the novel is the beach as a place for new begining. On Ronnie’s first day in North Carolina, she literally runs into Will while she is walking on the beach. The two of them meet during Will’s volleyball game after he hits her with the ball and accidentally spills her drink on her.

As a place for new beginnings, the beach also develops the sense that another large part of the story is the life of the baby sea turtles. These turtles bring Ronnie and Will together as they both share in the rescuing and protection of the turtles for the duration of the time when they are still eggs. Had the setting not been along the beach, the meaning behind the sea turtles would have been nonexistent, and Will and Ronnie may never have met with common ground to start their relationship on.

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Seventeen-year-old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller’s life was turned upside down when her parents divorce and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father…until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she and her brother spent the summer with him. Resentful and rebellious, Ronnie rejects her father’s attempts to reach out to her and threatens to return to New York before the summer’s end. But soon Ronnie meets Will, the last person she thought she’d ever be attracted to, and finds herself falling for him, opening herself up to the greatest happiness-and pain- that she has ever known.

The Last Song (Back Cover)

3.6Point of View

The author of The Last Song novel uses the narrator omniscient point of view as his technique of writing. The narrator is telling the story of Miller as the main character in the novel. Miller often appears in every series of the story and the most influence in the story and all events. The narrator uses the second person (she/he) to show all the characters.

The Last Song (2010:7)

Ronnie slouched in the front of the car, wondering why on earth her mom and dad hated her so much. It was the only thing that could explain why she was here visiting her dad, in this godforsaken southern armpit of a place, instead of spending time with her friends back home in Manhattan. No, scratch that. She wasn’t just visiting her dad. Visiting implied a weekend or two, maybe even a week. She supposed she could live with a visit. But to stay until late August? Pretty much the entire summer? That was banishment, and for most of the nine hours it had taken them to drive down, she’d felt like a prisoner being transferred to a rural penitentiary. She couldn’t believe her mom was actually going to make her go through with this.

But did that matter? Of course not. She could feel her mom’s rage, and the whole thing made her stomach. Maybe it was a good thing she wasn’t going home today. Behind her, she heard her dad approach. When she glanced over her shoulder, he hesitated. She knew he was trying to figure out whether she wanted to be alone, before he gingerly took a seat beside her. He didn’t say anything rigt away. Instead, he seemed to be watching a distant shrimp trawler anchored near the horizon.

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4 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

4.1Conclusions

After analyzing the intrinsic elements of The Last Song novel, the writer concludes that all the intrinsic elements are related one into other. Those intrinsic elements cannot be separated from each other.

The instrinsic elements of the novel revolve around love and broken family. Seventeen year old Veronica Ronnie Miller’s life was turned upside down when her parent divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains alienated from her parents, particularly her father until her mother disides it would be in everyone’s best intrest if she and her brother spand the summer with him. Resentfull and rebellious, Ronnie rejects her father attempts to reach out to her and threatens to returne to New York before the summer’s end. But soon Ronnie meets Will, the last person she thought she’d ever be attracted to, and finds herself falling for him, opening herself up to the greatest happiness and pain that she has ever known.

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4.2Suggestions

After writing the paper, the writer suggests that it’s very important for reader and writer to study the intrinsic elements. The instrinsic elements found in the novel The Last Song writen by Nicholas Sparks support to each other. In true Nicholas Sparks fasion, the reader is engaged from the first to last page the character are authentic and the plot is engrossing and emotinally charge. The depth and richness that Sparks bring to the reader are so moving they bring one tears. It is truly a very fluent and expressive work of the human heart and brought joy to me as the writer of this paper that I have not felt in quite sometime.

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APPENDICE

The Biography of Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with nearly 80 million copies in print worldwide, in over 45 languages, including over 50 million copies in the United States alone, and his popularity continues to soar.Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. It was published in 1996 by Warner Books. He followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road(2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003),The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel,At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice(2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010) and The Best of Me (2011), as well as the 2004

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non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah.Safe Haven, filmed in Southport, North Carolina is scheduled for release on February 14, 2013, and marks Sparks’s eighth film adaptation, following The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song

Sparks lives in North Carolina with his family. He contributes to a variety of local and national charities, and is a major contributor to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame, where he provides scholarships, internships, and a fellowship annually. Along with his wife, he founded The Epiphany School in New Bern, North Carolina. As a former full scholarship athlete (he still holds a track and field record at the University of Notre Dame) he also spent four years coaching track and field athletes at the local public high school. In 2009, the team he coached at New Bern High School set a World Junior Indoor Record in the 4 x400 meter, in New York. The record still stands.In 2011, Nicholas and his wife launched the Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to improving cultural and international understanding through global education experiences for students of all ages. Between the foundation, and the personal gifts of Nicholas and Catherine Sparks, more than $10 million dollars have been distributed to deserving charities, scholarship programs, and projects. Because Nicholas and Catherine Sparks cover all operational expenses of the foundation, 100% of donations are devoted to programs.

, which thus far have a cumulative worldwide gross of nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

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Summary of The Last Song

Divorce of her parents apparently have a major impact on self Veronica Ronnie. 17-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller is a troubled teenager who is trying her very best to ignore her divorced parents: Kim, her mother with whom she lives in New York, and Steve, her father who lives in his hometown of Wrightsville Beach, NC. Her mother decides that it would be in everyone's best interest if Ronnie and her 10-year-old brother, Jonah, spent the summer in Wrightsville Beach with Steve. Jonah is excited, while Ronnie can only wonder why her parents hate her so much as to send her there for the summer.

Once they arrive in Steve’s house Ronnie runs off to the carnival down at the beach, where she watches a volleyball game in the crowd. As she turns to leave, one of the players, the priveliged Will Blakelee, knocks into her while trying to reach the ball, spilling her soda all through the front of her shirt.

When she tries to find a stand selling shirts, Ronnie bumps into Blaze, an estranged teenager like herself, spilling the remaining soda on her again. Blaze helps her find a T-shirt booth and they leave to watch a show by Marcus, Blaze's boyfriend, on the pier. The show includes "harmless" fireballs, and when it's over, the police runs Marcus off. They go to sit under the pier, where Blaze heads off to find food. In Blaze's absence, Marcus attempts to touch Ronnie's breasts, causing her to leave.

Later, when Ronnie finds a nest of Loggerhead turtle eggs in danger of racoons behind her house, she decides to camp out next to it to save it. She learns

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that Will volunteers at the aquarium, and after a few nights of talking with him on the beach, she realizes she has feelings for him. They talk about their favorite. Ronnie unbelievably happy to have friends like Will. Ronnie slowly began to feel the beauty of the summer together Will.

When Ronnie comes to Blakelee Brakes, where Will works, he kisses her in front of Will's best friend Scott. Scott is furious because he can't have sex with his crush, Cassie, if Will doesn't date Cassie's best friend Ashley.

After two months together, Ronnie attends Will's sister's wedding, where they kiss. They go down to the boat Will owns to have sex, but Marcus stops them and ruins the wedding, causing Ronnie to break up with Will in fear that the Blakelee family hates her. But after talking with Will's sister, she reconciles with him at his volleyball tournament. During the tournament, Blaze catches herself on fire while doing a fireball show and Will and Ronnie rush her to the hospital, forcing Scott to forfeit the tournament. Will and Scott fight, and Ronnie takes him to her house to show Will the stained-glass window Jonah and Steve have been working on for the new church. While there, Ronnie and Will begin to have sex but Ronnie stops them, claiming that her dad will see. When Will leaves, it turns out Jonah was watching them, after all.

Ronnie then finds out that her dad has stomach and lung cancer. She is very sad and decided to live with her father after the summer ends. She wanted to take care of her father because she knows that her father no longer age. After finding out, she, Jonah, and Will finish the window; Ronnie finishes a song for him on the piano; and Pastor Harris, Steve's friend, installs the window at the new

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church. Kim arrives to say goodbye to Steve one last time and take Jonah home. Ronnie stays with Steve. Will had left in August to go to Vanderbilt; however, he shows up at the funeral once Steve has passed. He leaves again for Europe, and Ronnie returns to New York. While at up to surprise her; he reveals that he's decided to go to Columbia to be closer to her. Ronnie was very pleased with the decree of Will moved to New York to study at Juilliard and in the end they are together again.