When the world we live in gets too big for us, we tend to shrink back in silence and hope for the best but not La. She was scared, she was lonely but she never gave up on creating change when the world needed it the most. Even though she was in a small place and did small things, he orchestra had a big impact on the lives of many. Putting her self aside, she stood at the fronts of the battle between living and not living and she chose to live. She chose to use her time to make her small piece of the world a better place, an easier place to be. Her orchestra truly did save the world, "even if only in the most local sense" (Smith 285).