key! Treble! Bass! No sharps or flats! so this is C major! Listen now and play after me!
Jing Mei's mom takes her to go to a beauty salon because she wanst her to look like shirly temple with her curls. Jing mei likes his idea and she goes along with her mothers plan.
I was srprised when i hit the first wrong note
jing Mei's mother didn't like the haircut but jing mei liked i. It gave jing mei confidence. The girl who cut her hair din't seem excperienced at ll but she stated that peter pan is very popular these days because jing mei had a haircut that looked like peter pan. Her mom lost some faith in her being a prodigy after this because she wasn't that pretty in her eyes.
when we got on the bus to g home,my father was humming the busy bee tune and my mother kept silent
She then gets introdued to her nieghbour to try and learn piano becasue her mom knew that she good be good at pian and that could make her a child prodigy. Jing Mei doesn't really try. She thought it was stupid becasue her teacher is deaf. SH thought how could she learn with a deaf teacher
My mother had died a few months before and i had been bgetting things in order for my father a little bit at a time
She plays the piano and does horrible. She envisoned the crowd calpping for her but after she did so bad she didn't think they would. Instead they clapped awkwardly and she couln;t believe it. Old Chog was the only on clapping.
Her mom ignores her on the way home and shes diappointed. Even when they get home she still ignores JIng-Mei which is actually upsetting for her because she wanted to be scolded.
After all of this JIng-Mei's mom dies becasue of old age. JIng-Mei was sad but didn't really show that she was devestated. In the end she never became a prodigy like her mother wanted her to be.