Chapter 11 “Hector’s first song”

This week, I read chapter 11 “Hector’s first song” of Criss Cross, which Lynne Rae Perkins wrote. Chapter 11 starts Hector starts singing. The first part is sung by voice of girls, the second by Hector. That’s how Hector hears it in his head. His singing is referenced “It was kind of a Motown thing.” Hector had to need the three chords he had already learned. But more chords are possible for him.

When I have read the scene that Hector plays and sings while his concert, I pictured about my friends, three boys in the school I had gone to before I have came Thailand. By I left high school, they were still practicing the music. I had known they did their best, and I had known I would not be able to see their concert. In addition I have been known that they played the concert at the party of graduators from their air-mail. When I have read the scene that Hector plays and sings while his concert, there is not Hector in my imagination. There are my friends, and my friends play and sing the music they had practiced with utmost effort. While I have read this part of the story, I remember and compared the story with my experiences and memory, and it helped me to picture how he think and sing.

I predict the next chapter. The next will change the view point to audience from player at his concert. Debbie and her sister and friends will come to see Hector’s song.