Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Keller’s life consists of music and memories. He seems hostile and closed up from a life of pain and betrayal, which causes music to lose it’s beauty and causes Keller to hate himself. Keller unfolds his tragic wisdom to Paul though their piano lessons and attempts to teach him about life, with his riddles and bizarre sayings that can be taken two ways. Keller teaches Paul more about life than music. Paul needed Keller; he needed him to bring him back from his world of self satisfaction. Keller thought of him as arrogant, he said that “the boy (Paul) is too given to self satisfaction. The self satisfaction go no further.” Keller tries to give Paul what he was could not get from anyone else, wisdom of life. When Paul reads a bizarre article that was to enter Keller’s “textbook” he asks if he could take it home. Keller tells him to take the whole thing. That was not an act of kindness, Keller had been intending Paul to read the book. He wanted to show Paul the pain of the world; he wanted him to be shocked into learning how horrible life can be. He wanted him to know what to expect in life. Keller was a happy man, he hated himself and he lived life to in the worst manner he could. He made the textbook so