Maestro Characters: Eduard Keller: Piano teacher, strict, trains John Paul Crabbe: Protagonist in the story, takes lessons from Herr Keller pressured by his parents who want him to become a professional. John Crabbe: Stereotypical dominant farther. Living lost piano dreams through his son. Nancy Crabbe: John’s mother, gentle kind and fragile. Bennie: Paul’s child hood friend, a minor.
“John Barton killed himself.” Josie breaks down completely and feels awful just as her HSC exams are starting for the year. She makes it through the funeral and exams with the help of Jacob, her mother, Nonna (who Josie finds a huge secret about) and also Michael
She spends the night with him. Weeks go by and she is overcome by the guilt she feels for her cheating. She has seen her husband only twice since that night and he sensed something was wrong. She calls him as he is on a business trip and explains what she had done. He is calm, but she can sense the hurt in his voice.
The first thing that makes a good parent is not how you discipline your child or what classes they take, but it is to show that you care about them. Rex and Rose Mary do have interesting parenting methods, but like all loving parents, they treat their kids with love and care and not like nuisances. Rex has a very vivid imagination and before bed time, he shares some of it with his children who in turn look forward to his stories: “Tell us a story about yourself, Dad” we’d beg him”(Walls 24). Rex’s stories must be extravagant to have the children “beg” for him to tell them one, meaning that they enjoy his stories a lot. In other words, Rex cares about his kids and puts in effort to come up with these stories, just to make them happy.
“D”: Roger Chillingworth Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne’s, deformed husband, slowly transforms into what many call the Black Man. Chillingworth’s transformation, ultimately detrimental to Reverend Dimmesdale’s health, began once he questioned the reverend about sin, and his obsession did not, “set him free again until he had done all” of his searching (117). He leeched info out of poor Dimmesdale every day until, “there was a fiend at his elbow” his own self (155)! Chill., hired to help nurse Dimm. back to health, actually took more years off his life.
One of his teachers got very upset with him one day and George took it upon himself to put tar in the chair at her desk as retribution. This was only the beginning of his temperamental behavior. He was extremely boastful and loved to brag to anyone who would listen to him about how one day he would be king. On March 20, 1751, George’s father died from an accidental blow to one of his lungs during a cricket match. (Roberts) However, this may have been a rumor.
Catherine, tries to get the two most important men in life, Edgar and Heathcliff, to become friends but when that does not work out, she locks herself in her room for two days. She develops psychological insanity. In Foster’s book, a disease “should have some strong symbolic or metaphorical possibilities” (Foster 217). Catherine, she has a nervous breakdown from her the time she starves herself to the time she dies. Psychological insanity also means “insane” hence insanity and Catherine does not eat and all she ever talks about is death.
In a candy box, Mrs. Dubose has left Jem a camellia, a camellia that later Jem holds and fingers the wide petals thoughtfully. In Chapter 22, emotionally injured by the cruelty of the jurors who unjustly have convicted Tom Robinson of the charges which Mayella Ewell has brought against him, Jem's eyes burn with angry tears. At home, he asks his father, "How could they do it, how could they?" Atticus responds in the only way he can,"I don't know, but they did....seems that only children weep. Good night."
Holden lives a very mixed up life. Holden is depressed because he learns that he is a failure after leaving Penecy since he flunked every subject except for English. Sally Hayes depresses Holden as well because he doesn’t understand why she wouldn’t want to run away with him. He says to Sally out of no where, "Look...here's my idea, how would you like to get the hell out of here"" (132; ch. 17).
He makes himself sick working so much, isolating himself while working on the creature. Victor emotionally isolates himself when he realizes that he created a monster. Since Victor isolated himself, he was eventually able to return to society when he received a letter from his wife, Elizabeth. He returns home unlike the creature that did not have a home to return to. The lonliness caused by the creature killing Victor’s family caused Victor to isolate himself from the rest of the world he became very depressed because he lost many members of his family.