The Last Song Personal Response Essay Example

Personally I would never have been strong enongh to watch my own dad die knowing there was nothing I could do to save him. Ronnies dad didn’t want her to see him in such a condition but Ronnie insisted on staying by his side.

Sadly this happened to a friend of mine who had to watch his mum slowly die of cancer. I still remember walking into the classroom in Year 3 and seeing the teacher, parents and students crying. Everybody was grieving together but I cant imagine what Andy and his family had to go through. He was the same age as me, 8, and it tore him apart. Just a short while after I lost a chunk of hair out of the back of my head and I was teased and told I had cancer. Luckily I didn’t but it really upset and worried me.

Getting told by my friends I had cancer was hard enough but being told by a professional doctor or nurse would be traumatising. I am inspired by how Ronnie is so forgiving throughout the film. Ronnie hears rumours that her dad burnt down the local church. Ronnie’s dad was pulled out of the church unconscious one night after it caught on fire. Ronnie’s dad had just taken his cancer medication and was playing the piano when the church caught on fire. Luckily he survived thanks to the fire fighters but he, and Ronnie were blamed for the loss of the church.

Ronnie asked her dad what happened and he blamed himself for the fire but Ronnie didn’t believe him for a second and this was

truly inspirational. After this Ronnie accidentally over heard a conversation between her dad, Will and Scott. Ronnie was shocked and fought with Will for not telling her or her dad sooner and letting her dad believe that he lit the church on fire. Ronnie and Will didn’t make contact again until the funeral. Before the funeral Ronnie opened the letters her dad had sent her during her parents’ separation and learnt lessons about love, faith, forgiveness and life.

These made Ronnie realise that she needed to forgive Will because everybody makes mistakes no matter how hard they try not to. Personally I would always have a doubt in the back of my mind that maybe my dad did burn down the church and the rumours are true no matter how hard I tried not to. It’s hard to forgive people when they make a mistake and I have gone through this situation before. My best friend and I were really close and shared everything like personal jokes and always hung out, and then she moved schools so I didn’t see her as much but we always talked and we were both always there for each other.

Unfortunately she made a massive mistake that ruined our friendship for months. We fought all the time then just lost contact all together. She moved country and I thought that things would just sort themselves out. She apologised several times until I finally found the courage to talk to her, it took me a while to accept her apology but I realised that the situation wasn’t worth losing a best friend over and I forgave her.