Teenage Dreamers by Phillip Tang

1. What are the first two sentences of the story and how do they create a tension in the story?

"My father had a sixth sense. He knew when people would die." It creates tension because as soon as you get into the story, you are told about someone who knows when people die and it freaks you out.

2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death?

He has become obsessed with "Leslie Cheung".

3. How does the description of the father removing his hands from his face as ‘unmasked’ related to the seriousness of his following statement?

When he removes his hands from his face he looks more serious then his son had ever seen him before. It shows that he is serious about the man dying in a month, that he wasn't fooling around. If he hadn't looked as serious as he had then his son would have just assumed that it was brought on by the movie and he wouldn't believe that the person was actually going to die.

4. Consider how the father lives his life and conducts himself and the other people in the theatre for the film the author and his father are watching. How does this relate to the title of the story?

The father lives his life around Leslie. He laminates posters of him and he tells stories about Leslie's childhood. Everyone that you hear about in the cinema are massive Leslie fans. You are told about the father, later on you learn that the son is a fan and there are also the girls in the front row hugging each other because the guy is injured in a movie. It relates to the title because all the people in there cared about him and possibly even dreamed about him.