First Meeting With Keller Maestro Analysis

FIRST MEETING WITH KELLER;

Adult Paul's narration offers an interpretation of events from a position of maturity and self awareness. As a result, events at the beginning of the lone ls, such as Paul's first meeting with Keller, are recounted with the tone of ones self-criticism. The opening rhetorical question and immediate answer in 'first impressions? Misleading, of course" established our expectations that pails experience of Keller at the novels opening will be changes by novels end, and that thus changes perspective of the maestro will be reflected in change and perspective of himself.
Paul's first experience of Keller is under printed by fascination with his strangeness, depicted through a cumulative if sensory details: "d glow of his face.......pitted, sun-coarsened skin.....white linen, freshly pressed....". Contrast evoked between the european culture and crumbling old piano teacher and the vulgar, unsophisticated world of Darwin pub beyond the pub beyond the room. Paul's narrative declaration that he'd "seen nothing like him before", is supported by the distictively visual break down of the mans physical features: "migrant-height", "white , sparse, downy" hair."prince-new" and "dainty faintly ridiculous hands"
Keller's hands represent his complexity; the "small and
porgy" quality unattractively compared to "inflated gloves" is set against the dedicated tips of the fingers which are "manicured; the skin pale and soft and clean." whilst young paul, in his arrogance and initial dislike of Keller, jumps to conclusion about who and what he is, the questioning prompted by this initial view of Keller's hands suggests that, eve uncoconsciously, pai,detects Keller's complexity: "a pianists hand? Impossible. Too unfunny tonal, surely. Too...decorative."
When Paul challenges Keller as to whether he can play Liszt with a missing finger, the maestro performs "the first of many miracles", an effortless performance that silences any doubts Paul's has reguarding Keller's post-injury technical competence. Keller's fingers, and infers generally, symbolize the flaws in human nature: "this focus's on the fingers and their need for disciplin and self awareness foreshadows the lessons that Paul will learn, ad suggest that from this first meeting, not only does Keller "know how [hands like this]sound", but he knows the lessons that arrogant young men, such as he one was, need to learn.

SEXUAL AWAKENING;

At the beginning of the novel Paul opens up to us saying "at school I was falling in love" however the physical attraction of this nature his focus was established by the depth and detail of that he goes into when explaining Megan's features such as "her smooth bare shoulders, the thick cumulus of her pale hair" these sensory details show the thoughts that were running through Paul's mind rather than the feeling of love he stated he was feeling. Paul's attraction to Megan is purely sexual, shown through the quote "I'd like to imagine that home in her she could sense in her dreams what was happening in mine"...."which was plenty"...."my mother looked at me differently" theses moments during the novel show the change that Paul's is experiencing and how his perception of Megan is becoming more of a sensual type rather than a feeling of love type, it's explores the beginning of Paul's sexual awakening towards Megan. By the time Megan is ready to for fill Paul's desire, Paul's has already emotionally begun to relate with Rosie and they begun there own sexual explorations. Megan discovers her jealousy through Paul showing a liking in another girl, this shows the lack of sef

By the time Megan delivers on Paul's expression of desire, Paul is already emotionally involved with Rosie and the beginning of their own sexual exploration.
Megan discovers with disappointment, is "too selfish....to used to being desired" to be an enjoyable lover. The cumulative description of her "floppy, inert like something wanting to be kneaded" contrast with the description of Paul's and Rosie "in an agony of touching and pleasures, fired by the kind of passion and inventiveness that only two frustrated loners were capable of "; the use of the plural first person pronoun in this passage position Rosie ad Paul's romantic match, supported by the common identification as an
outsider.

TRIP TO ADELAIDE WITH KELLER AND THE BAND;

This particular part in the novel represents the failure and disappointment as wells as sorrow and contempt towards Keller. Thus shown when Paul when he comes third in the piano completion, he feels his parents feel disappointed about his placing. And finding the 6 faded blue digits on Keller's arm representing Paul's feeling of sincere and sorrow towards Keller.
The contrast between these two emotions come to make paul seem much weaker and less self absorbed than he did in the beginning. This shows the

Art of the novel represents the
Rick whitely pedophiliac old man. Pg89 wondering around in he's jocks asking them to tell dirty stories all night when they said no he wept off.

(reading between the lines)
(When he first came there represent sophistication contrasting the area)
He attempts to feel teritorians contempt with Adelaide
"All the wonders seemed to varnish with this trip to Adelaide"
Piano camp (band breaks up) ruthless with
Keller's concentration camp (tattoo's on the arm)
Paul learns humility, ego without backing it up
Piano thinks he nailed came 3rd represent failure and disappointment parents because they didn't mention it he knew they felt disappointment
A distant 3rd place
Keller gets drunk stays the night at Paul's grandmother
Sees Keller as a fertility and suffering february and sees the camp tattoo on his arm and Paul sees the softness in him and the pain he's gone through.
Represent failure disappointment and discovery.