American Band

This entire book was centered around love saving people. Bands across the country save children's lives everyday by giving them a niche that most people, especially high school students, search so desperately to find. In this novel, students like Adeline Corona, an incoming freshman clarinet player, meet people like Diana de la Renza, the senior section leader for clarinets, who supports her unconditionally throughout the season. In American Band, all participants in the Concord High School Marching Band can find people who truly care about their well being and about the program in general. These people are willing to work hard for the benefit of the group, no matter what sacrifices they have to make in order to do that. This is what is so special about this kind of love. It is very complex because not only is it love for a program that saves lives, but love for your fellow band mate. That is expressed especially at the state competitions. Everyone out there competing is working their hardest for the people standing next to them. At the competition, people go beyond themselves for a team of people and for the sport. In this experience people make lifetime friends and confidants that will carry them through and support them as long as they live just as they did from the start. Truly the entire novel and the sport in general is completely centered around love not only for a program, but for the people who make the program possible. In this case, love truly does save, countless lives.