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Being put into a mind of a genius to experience and understand what this man is going through is exactly what Mark Salzaman has done in his book The Soloist. At the age of six this musical genius, Renne, began playing the cello. Renne heard the cello for the fir ....

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.... had planned to have more children, but in view of my father to focus all of their attention and resources on me. (Salzman 4) This is the first example of Renne being a soloist, in which he is the only child and his parents are going to keep it that way so he can be the best at his talent. In school he was different from other kids because he loved music and he wasn’t that interested in playing sports, his mother forbidden him to play. She excluded him from contact with other children after he moved to Germany with Von Kempen. Renne was forced to be alone and that is all he knew. It must have been real rough to be alone constantly. He was scar ....