Criticism Against the High Rate of Divorce in Nicholas Sparks’s The Last Song (2009) Novel: A Sociological Perspective

Study is about divorce overview on the society by revealing the issue related. Through sociological perspective, the researcher analyzes effect, cause and depiction to demonstrate Nicholas Sparks’s reason of his delivering divorce in The Last Song (2009) novel. This study is qualitative research and the type is descriptive qualitative. The real novel by Nicholas Sparks’s The Last Song, first U.S. edition published September 1 2009 by Grand Central Publishing becomes the material object of the study with family of divorce as the formal object.Primary data source is the real novel. The secondary data source is taken fromreader response, website, dictionary, journal, book and other sources related the study which supports the research. The researcher gets four findings as follows; firstly, there are six causes of divorce. Secondly, there are 9 effects of divorce.Thirdly, divorce is depicted through the character, place and event of the novel. In conclusion from the results obtained, is gotten that The Last Song (2009) becomes Sparks’s power to criticize the society againts the high rate cases of divorce