1. What are the first two sentences of the story and how do they create a tension in the story? When the author says that father has a sixth sense for death this creates tension because we feel that the story is going to be revolving around death. This sentence does that by giving the reader a feeling of suffering which also contributes to tension given off.
2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death? The author's father has become obsessed with Leslie Cheung also father has become very emotional and feeling a bit of loneliness.
3. How does the description of the father removing his hands from his face as ‘unmasked’ related to the seriousness of his following statement? Since father has been so emotional when the authors mother left him when he unmasked his face to the author, this gives us a sense that he had gotten rid of all the extra emotion and spoken in all seriousness. Also the fact that his following statement was about the person he was most obsessed about gives us evidence that he is serious about what he cares about.
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? Since Father is so lonely becuase his wife left him and in the cinema he was crying and acting like a mess. This behavior is a symbol for the stereotypical image of a teenage girl crying over a pop star or over a movie this relates to the image of teenage dreamers
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