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?

It creates a ‘spookiness’ or jolt inside the reader, and is effective in grabbing the readers attention.

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

He has become obsessed with a Chinese Singer called ‘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?

The reason it is so serious for the father to ‘unmask’ himself is because he is putting any put on emotion on, and is simply talking to his son face to face and truly.