1. What are the first two sentences of the story and how do they create a tension in the story? The first two sentences are, "My father had a sixth sense. He new when people would die." This creates tension by starting off the story with a dark topic: death.
2. What has happened to the author’s father as a result of his wife’s death? After his wife's death, the author's father became obsessed with Leslie Cheung; a male singer.
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 description of the father removing his hands from his 'unmasked' face is related to the seriousness of his following statement by masks being a burial element in Chinese culture and his next statement (Leslie Cheung will die next month) is one of death.
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? It relates to the title of the story by the theater fr the film that his father was watching being a dream; that those kind of happy endings don't really happen.
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