1. What are the first two sentences of the story and how do they create a tension in the story? The first two sentences in the story are 'My father had a sixth sense', 'He knew when people would die'. These sentences creates tension throughout the story as it makes the reader think that the father might be a bit strange or unusual and the story will be how someone deals with him.
2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death? He has become obsessed with a singer and actor named 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? By removing his hands from his face to tell his son a statement which is very serious show how the father is so sure that Leslie will die the next month and that his son should not take the statement lightly.
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 way that the father and other people in the cinema conduct themselves around the main actor of the movie Leslie Cheung is related to the title of the story 'Teenage Dreams' as many teenager dream of themselves being like people that they look up to such as singers or actors like Leslie Cheung.
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