Monday, October 17, 2011

Teenage Dreamers by Phillip Tang


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? The first two sentences help to create tension as you start to think that this father is nothing like a normal human and has a special power to predict death this gets the reader to expect this story to be about death.
2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death? He became obsessed with Leslie Cheung after his wife died.
3. How does the description of the father removing his hands from his face as ‘unmasked’ related to the seriousness of his following statement? The processes of unmasking is related to him coming to a point in realisation and the statement that “he is going to die” means that his sixth sense is starting again and that Leslie is 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? Is that he is just like a teenager how they dream and wish that there life was just like their favourite pop star or actor while trying to avoid things that destroy that dream of theirs.

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