Maestro Essay

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English Essay Sometimes it is easier to run away than it is to face our past. Discuss with reference to characters in Maestro. The easy option may not always be right. The novel Maestro, written by Peter Goldsworthy demonstrates how people can run away from their pasts, however it also displays that ones past will never run away from them. Paul Crabbes' journey during childhood makes it easy to think he could have easily run away from his past, however Rosie gives Paul the courage to face his past unlike the Maestro who was fooled into believing that running away was the easy option, until he met Paul who reconnected him to music and his past. Another example of being strong and not running away is Bennie who was a strong hearted and determined boy who refused to run and instead stood up for himself living with the truth and gained the strength to move on. Paul's childhood was all about him and no one else and Paul being the self centered and arrogant child simply thought he was the best which gave Paul the easy option of running away. What Paul didn't realise, was that his passion for music was stuck with him for life and "music seemed nearer to lovemaking than to music." Paul left Darwin and by leaving Darwin ran away from music to study at university. Paul didn't realise that the lovemaking music had followed him all the way and Paul's "dreams of New York and Vienna" were impossible to run away from. The reader is encouraged to see that Paul may have tried to run away, but in doing this his lust for music only grew and this demonstrates that running away may be easy but it's only a matter of time before your past catches you and you have to face the truth. The Maestro lived a life of regret filled with pain and guilt and wanted nothing more than for the past to vanish and to start over. The maestro went to the extremes of feeling "grief and guilt and

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