"Maestro" by Peter Goldsworthy

Maestro is written in the first person with an adult Paul, the main character, reflecting back over his life. It begins with Paul and Keller’s first meeting and they are both presented to us as rather arrogant and insensitive. However, when the adult Paul then interjects into his story about how he can understand that it might be incredible to believe that he came to ‘love this man’, his gruff music teacher the reader is brought to the realisation that there is a lot more depth to those characters and to their emotions than we might have previously thought. Throughout the book, Paul’s attitude towards Keller changes many times usually as a direct result of the way Keller treats him. For example, when Keller throws away one of Paul’s manuscripts, Paul fiercely hates him but when Keller surprisingly says that Paul should have won the music competition, Paul once again feels genuine affection for him. These changes in feelings by Paul show that he is a character who often lets his heart rule his head, and that his behaviour is very often dictated by his emotional condition.
As Paul matures, he slowly comes to the realisation that he is beginning to learn from the maestro, and that Keller's phrasings, which seemed absurd in adolescence, blossom into a "musical bible whose texts I knew by heart" that is why I have put a book in my visual representation and the book is named bible. This is a metaphor that emphasises the importance of Keller’s phrasings to Paul as they are referred to as a “musical bible”, displaying the importance of Keller in Paul’s life. It is through this metaphor that the composer conveys the significance of the loving bond between Paul and Keller to Paul in his development.
Thought out the novel peter Goldsworthy keeps goings going back to Kellers past so that is why I have put the swastika on top of the Star of David to show that the Nazis where on top and control over the israelis and because Keller speaks to Paul of his memories of the time “My