The text is about a boy named Michael but is also called Maestro. He wants to have talent, cause he doesn’t have one like his sister who “…was a gifted and influential majorette” and his older brother who could “dismantle things” and at the same time of his life he could do nothing well. The narrators’ uncle and dad, were going to throw a Piano out, but Michael insisted, that he could …show more content…
Because of the Piano, the old lady from their neighborhood died. It was Mrs. Patricia Chin, she was Michael’s piano teacher. The narrator insisted so much of being a good piano player, but he did not know that it just does not come that easy. Every time Michael would practice, Mrs. Chin reaction would be like “Are you sure you don’t want to give up”, “why can’t you just play the notes right” and “my ears are bleeding” etc. It irritated her so much that this child didn’t have the talent, it was just hopeless. Therefore she raised the fee to 75 pence and after that to a pound hoping that Michael would give his dream up. But he was a stubborn child, proud and a little spiteful. He was not ready to surrender his dreams. The reason why Mrs. Chin was killed, as he himself says in the text: “I knew deep in my heart that Mrs. Chin would still be alive that night if I hadn’t played The Entertainer. “The Entertainer” was a ragtime composition, which was a type of rhythmical/dancing music with a strong beat. Which we can conclude, that an old lady in the 70th like Mrs. Chin, couldn’t handle the sound of. Like we see old people nowadays, they hate the new electrical music