With
an ambition to change Ayer’s life, Lopez continues to convince Nathaniel to
stay at Lamp, a facility center that could protect him and his instruments. Due
to Nathaniel’s lack of trust in doctors who work in Lamp, Lopez struggles to make
progress in Nathaniel’s life until Peter Snyder offers free music classes to
Nathaniel. Once Nathaniel settles down in the facility, Lopez begins to search
for Nathaniel’s lost sister and father to reconnect the three of them. However,
when Nathaniel reads all the articles that Lopez has written about him, he is
furious and demands Lopez to stop helping him. Lopez is left with a crushing
disappointment and a recognition of the limit that has been imposed by the
severe disorder of schizophrenia. In order to portray his hopeless defeat
against Nathaniel’s condition, Lopez includes repetition of inappropriate
diction in the memoir, “The Soloist”.
Lopez’s
dream is broken when Nathaniel yells, “I don’t have to stay in this stinking
town that I absolutely motherfucking hate. I despise Los Angeles. I despise
you!” (Lopez, 258). The strategic diction creates a sense of frustration that
Lopez feels when realizing that even though his column audiences praise him for
his actions, Ayers will never be capable of acknowledging Lopez for his
guidance or seek help to get treatment for his schizophrenia. Not only that,
but Lopez, as an author includes the repeated sentence, “get out”, spoken by
Nathaniel to build up the tension that is present in the atmosphere.
Nathaniel’s harsh diction in response to Lopez’s articles is what makes this
text portray Lopez as a failure in his battle against Nathaniel's schizophrenia.
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