The Secret Life Of George When There Are Great Quotes

George’s quick rise to fame, and his eventual decline is a big factor in this story, but one of its other factors is his dispute with infamous composer Ludvig von Beethoven. In the tavern after the men have had a few drinks and things start to get heated, he gets angry with George and says that he ‘would rather dedicate his music to a barn mule’ (Dove 139), before ripping the sheet music up. It should be known, that Beethoven wrote this piece especially for George, since he seemed like the only one who could play it as amazing as he did. This was what made George famous, and it’s gone in a matter of seconds. This scene of the book, which reads easier than almost any other passage since it’s in script format and thus has which character is speaking and some vague actions, is the climax of the story. It’s supposed to be a very significant scene, so maybe that’s why it was written easier to understand. Unfortunately, it’s what thus starts George’s quick decline from prodigy to nobody.

His ‘self eulogy’ passage brings the tone once again to being the serious tone from a majority of other passages, but especially with the final line of: “But Papa- I’ve tasted the gold.’

Possibly the best allusion in and of this story would be the allusion of it being like a message in a bottle from page 21, because that’s what this story is, “a story someone penned in thirst and anger on an uncharted desert isle, then stuffed into a bottle that now floats, a glassine porpoise, swell upon swell, for anyone to find…” (Dove 21). As previously mentioned, Beethoven practically wrote George out of history after their argument and fall out in the tavern, so we almost never learned about him at all. George was lost, but appeared out of nowhere, just like his rise to fame. We don’t see him until we see the stagemaster (his father); we see what isn’t