Comparing Imagination 'And The Last Cab To Darwin'

"In order for individuals to change and succeed in life, personal challenges and obstacles need to be accepted and embraced". In most cases, failure can prevail to be more beneficial than success. Failure provides an individual with a drive to succeed and keep trying. Through the core text of Maestro, J.K. Rowling's speech "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination" and the film, “The Last Cab to Darwin', the audience learns that with experience comes personal development and consequently a changed perspective. In the bildungsroman Maestro, composer Peter Goldsworthy positions the responder, through retrospective narration to view the protagonists Paul Crabbe and Eduard Keller from a particular viewpoint. The epiphanic novel emphasises the themes of gaining maturity, setting and the ambivalent relationship between 16-year-old Paul and Keller. The characters first impressions of each other are …show more content…
Rowling's tone indicates a theme of growth. "I'm not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun, that period of my life was a dark one. Any light was hope rather than reality". Rowling describes this antithesis as darkness being a war like existence contrasting to the brighter side of human empathy. Rowling stresses that failure can only hold benefits if a person has a positive outlook. “Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way". Through accepting her own circumstances and focusing on personal development, Rowling was able to succeed, becoming one of the world's most loved authors. Maestro and "The Fringe Benefits of Failure…" are closely connected through the use of effectives techniques, such as; contrast and tone, and the central notion that an individual's changed perspective results because personal challenges have been accepted and