Discuss How Goldsworthy Uses Paul’s Memories to Teach Us Life Lessons

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Discuss how Goldsworthy uses Paul’s memories to teach us life lessons In Maestro, Goldsworthy uses the teenager personwa; this gives the readers a teenager’s point of view. Through this form of writing we see the wisdom behind Goldsworthy’s writing, as no teenager could fully understand experiences such as Pauls, until he could reflect on them. There are many events throughout Goldsworthy’s book, Maestro, and although we have a better understanding of what is going on in Paul’s life and the events that follow him, we as the readers can also connect on a more personal level as we understand Goldsworthy’s perspective of a teenager’s point of view. In this book Goldsworthy is trying to apply the message that immaturity and adolescence is what clouds our vision of what real and true value is. Throughout the novel Paul keeps his inconclusive attitude towards Keller. Paul’s particular attitude towards Keller causes him to have many simultaneous, conflicting feelings towards Keller. This is shown through his many attempts to discover who Keller truly is, such as when Keller is one day late to a lesson with Paul, and Paul attempts to decipher who Keller truly was, where he came from and why he was in a remote town in Darwin. Paul studies family photos of Keller and is unable to understand the real reason Keller is in Darwin. This similar event happens on page 45: Pauls Mother: “we’re having wiener schnitzel tonight, Herr Keller. In your honour. And sauerkraut – I had awful trouble finding a recipe. I hope it doesn’t make you feel homesick...” Keller: “nothing, dear lady, could make me homesick” This response from Keller alludes to the answer to the question; why is Keller in Darwin? We soon discover the ignorance of these actions, as Keller had run away from that part of his identity. At the end of the novel we see that Paul has made it to the conservatorium of

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