My First Kiss by Lian Low

My First Kiss by Lian Low

1. How does the author describe Malaysia in regards to showing affection? It was not allowed as showing affection in public was a criminal offence and would get you in trouble and being a homosexual it is even worse.

2. What happens to the author when she hits puberty? She loses her friendship with her male friends and starts to become shyer so she starts to retreat to the library and join the chess team and she start’s to have feelings for other girls.

3. What is the author’s experience at school when she first arrives to Melbourne? When she moves to Melbourne she become less interested in friends and spends her lunch time in the library and she has to do ESL even thou she has spoken English for 2 years before coming to Australian.

4. What is it that made the author feel that she wasn’t Australian even though she spoke English fluently?  She felt not Australian as everyone has asked her where she came from as soon as she started to speak

5. What else was it about the author that further alienated her from her peers? The reason that she feels like she is alienated is because she is queer so can’t say what she feels she is an immigrant so gets treated different and she has a weird group of accents.

6. What does the use of description like ‘crash hot’ do to the audience’s perception of the author? It shows that she is queer and is not just a little bit but a lot and if they weren’t perfect she wasn’t interested.

7. What opportunity does university give the author? What is it about university which would allow her to express herself more freely?  It gives her a chance to express herself as she really is instead of who she is pretending to be, there is people like her that has the same feelings as her.

8. What role does creativity play for the author? Why do you think that creativity would be so important to her? It allows her to express herself it is important as it allows herself to release what she feels.