Maestro’ is a novel about maturity and adolescence, inevitably involving love in all its forms. Paul learns a lot about love from his various relationships and experiences from the text. In Paul’s relationships, there is a distinct contrast of the sensual versus the intellectual. When coming to terms with his sexuality, Paul has difficulty balancing the two. As a result, Paul learns some of the greatest lessons of his life and grows into a mature, responsible and caring adult. As all teenagers do, Paul experiences love and falls for a girl called Megan, the much sought after yet shallow beauty. Although Paul says he has fallen in love with her, he is soon to realise that he merely lusts after her. He dreams of her body and not her personality and once he has become intimate with her, he realises just how shallow his feelings for her are and that she is only after one thing. However, the second time he falls in love, it is much more genuine and is based on more than appearance. Rosie was the other smart kid in the class who worshipped Paul and that at first annoyed him and made him dislike her. 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...