Jesus Lopez Ms. Head British Literature Agoust 30th‚ 2012 “Crabbe” Crabbe by William Bell is a journal of Franklin Crabbe‚ an unhappy teenager who‚ right before his final exams‚ decided to run away and leave not a trace. It takes him some time to plan it‚ but he gets away with it‚ packing up his things and driving away from his life as a spoiled‚ "semi-alcoholic" teenager whose every move has been planned out
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The Maestro‚ by Peter Goldsworthy The novel Maestro‚ by Peter Goldsworthy is a beautifully crafted novel dealing with the tragic gulf between talent and genius‚ between the real and the spurious. Good literature‚ however‚ is often judged not only by what is written‚ but also the way it is written. Reflecting this criteria‚ Maestro is well written‚ perfectly contrasted and thus an excellent example of a good piece of literature. Goldsworthy has achieved this thorough his character development‚ utilization
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In Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy‚ the condition of the human heart is explored in several ways. Through Paul and his dealings with Keller and through his relationship with Rosie. Through Keller and the way he relates to Paul‚ and finally through Keller and way he deals with society. 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
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Setting Idea/s - Conveys the impression that Darwin is a place where people who don’t fit in come together | Topic sentence/s – the distinctively visual setting in Maestro assists in representing/capturing the identity of Darwin of the 1960’s. | Evidence | Techniques | Effect | After a difficult days work at the hospital not long after arriving in Darwin‚ Paul’s father remarks rather irately that “All the drifters”‚ the misfits”‚ “All the scum in the country has somehow risen to this
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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
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Maestro Practice Essay "Paul’s view of Keller grows and develops throughout the novel‚ but remains incomplete even at the end." Do you agree? The book explores both Paul’s and Keller’s love of great music. It is Keller’s means of survival and he can never turn away from it. Introduction: - can take both sides - Should signpost what you put in the body paragraphs - Explore issues - Paul’s view of Keller  major - Paul’s view of himself  arrogance to self-depreciation - Keller’s
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Essay Peter Goldsworthy’s novel Maestro is substantially autobiographical. Through the development of the narrator Paul Crabbe from adolescence into maturity‚ Peter recalls aspects of his own experiences growing up in Darwin. Goldsworthy employs a musical style throughout the novel to engage the audience with visual imagery. The style features used to create characterisation and descriptive settings are all distinctively visual and help to shape the meaning of the text. Similarly Pablo Picasso used
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Maestro Essay Discuss the ways that composers of text use distinctively visual elements to convey ideas in their texts. Distinctively visual elements convey concepts and ideas presented by composers in texts which are expressed through the construction of writing within a novel or through symbolic artworks. In the novel ‘Maestro’ by Peter Goldsworthy and the sand art performance by Kseniya Simonova‚ distinctively visual images are generated thorough various techniques which convey the concepts
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Peter Goldsworthy conveys distinctively visual images in his Text ‘Maestro’ in various ways‚ one including use of settings instead of chapters. Goldsworthy has replaced the normal chaptering of a book with settings such as Darwin. Goldsworthy has done this to create a vivid image in the readers mind about where the story is taking place and what it is like to be there. Goldsworthy conveys distinctively visual images in the readers mind by use of descriptive language. With use of the quote describing
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something about ourselves. Discuss. In Peter Goldsworthy’s novel ‘Maestro’ all relationships taught each character something about themselves. (Contention?) Through their relationship Keller and Paul learn from each other. Paul learns his arrogance is not doing him any good in becoming a better pianist and Keller helps him to mature from a selfish 15-year-old with a big ego to a caring adult‚ Keller sees his lost son‚ Eric in Paul which leads him to becoming attached although at first he finds it
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