Maestro Practise Essay By Cameron Anderson ‘Both Paul and Keller have few redeeming qualities.’ Peter Goldsworthy’s Maestro demonstrates the good and bad qualities of the many characters throughout the novel. The most notable characters are Paul and Keller. Although both Paul and Keller have little redeeming qualities, they both share similar qualities, which they have learnt from one another. Keller’s regret and guilt is one of the key traits displayed during the novel. His guilt over the death of his beloved wife and son during World War 2 is a crucial event in which shaped the present Keller.
What is the significance of Paul’s reflection on his past? The text explores the impact of memory as a tool for lessons in life. Keller, who is initially the subject of Paul’s derogatory jokes, becomes a true mentor to Paul. The reader is made aware of the development and is more culturally adept to understand the possible history and suffering Keller has endured. Music remains the catalyst to sustain this relationship but it is the individual perspectives which make their histories unique.
Clark believes that sorrow is turned into pure emotion and Sonny's music becomes an expression of history (31). The most obvious part of that statement is that Sonny does turn his music into his emotions. This is how his music seems so real to his brother. As his brother pointed out, while he sat and listened to Sonny at the club, he made it his own. As Sonny took control the other musicians gathered around him and they seemed to be encouraging him on, saying amen every now and then, as if he were speaking some words they desperately believed in.
She finds herself in a sea of mixed emotions when the death of a troublesome, neighborhood boy, Ti- Guy, occurs. The once acquainted mothers were now joined by motherhood and respect for their neighbor's, the Duprés. During an act of remorse for the grieving family the narrator has an epiphany. The realization that Catholics too, mourn death the same way as Jews. This inspires her to paint a gold star for the Duprés; symbolizing that Ti-Guy's death, and any death in that matter, is just as significant as a soldier’s death.
He seems to be lost within the joy of killing when he says “Another baby next. O one-two-three the murderer inside me rose up hard.” Which Hitler himself became enthralled with soon losing sight of his reasons behind the “exterminations.” It is the last sentence in the last stanza that connects all of the dots. “If only they’d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quiet Nazi way.” This quote is included to help show the much deeper more literal meaning of this poem. It also adds to the view that the farmer has gone from trying to save his farm from pests to trying to almost wipe the entire species of woodchucks from the earth. It also seems to show that he blames the woodchucks for not going down easily adding to the reader’s view of him becoming completely
Germany during World War II. The Book Thief is a story about love, hope and the power of words. It’s also a story about some of the few people in Nazi Germany who still believed in human equality. The young Liesel Meminger has lost her family. At the burial of her brother, she finds The Gravedigger’s Handbook in the snow.
Survival: Luck or Wisdom? Art Spiegleman’s books, Maus I and Maus II, are graphic novels describing Art’s father, Vladek, and his plight through the Holocaust. During that time, the Jews were performing acts so unthinkable that if performed today, would be seen as crude and obscene. These acts, though looked down upon, were done with only one thing in mind: survival. Surviving the strict Nazis and traumatizing death camps depended purely on one’s good luck or one’s strategic knowledge.
In the novel Night Elie Wiesel shares his persona memories of the Holocaust. In which he experienced the loss of friends, and family. The evil caused by the Germans against the Jews severely shattered Elie’s hope and belief in the goodness of human beings. Although Elie retained his views throughout his life, the novel Night shows that Wiesel was able to restore his faith in others. At the end of the novel Wiesel states that the image of himself that he saw in the mirror compelled him to keep moving forward in life and to resist the impulses of
As he is moved around, he takes in his surroundings to see if any of it is familiar, and in this process he illustrates the opposition and message of the story. Along the walls he sees a painting of the Greek myth of Medea, a woman who kills her children, representing the loss of innocence in the narrator and a recreation of a Parthenon frieze with depictions of Greek warriors, Hohenzollern rulers and the presumptuous inclusion of Hitler. He passes the artistic renditions of the Nazi’s eugenic dreams, recalling faults in these racial paradigms like the Rhine maiden he considered “a bit bony and severe.” The nobility of the cause he gave his life for is called into question when he identifies the pre-fabricated war memorial hanging in the school, from the last war. This
It was amazing to read about Frankl’s struggles during the Holocaust and the resulting insights that he provides in his memoir. Although many indications pointed towards his death, Frankl’s experience with truth, love, and goodness became his incentives to survive and be victorious over human