The Dead Star by : paz marquez benitez
plot : the story began when alfredo fell in love with esperanza but it still in love with julia and alfredo believes in love with the first person he likes. He fall in love with Esperanza when Alfredo see Julia he so in love with her love at first sight and Julia didn't know that alfredo have a fiancee after three years of romance.
Characters of dead stars:
Alfredo Salazar - son of Don Julian, a more than 30 year’s old man and a bachelor. He is engaged to Esperanza but he is in love with Julia Salas.
Esperanza - wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is a homely woman, literal minded and intensely acquisitive. She is one of those fortunate women who have the gift of uniformly beauty.
Julia Salas - sister-in-law of Judge Del Valle. She is the other girl of Alfredo Salazar thatremains single in her entire life.
Don Julian - an old man, a father of Alfredo Salazar and Carmen.Carmen - sister of Alfredo Salas.
Judge Del Valle - brother-in-law of Julia Salas.
Donna Adella -- sister of Julia Salas. She is small and plump, a pretty woman with acomplexion of a baby with an expression of a likeable cow.
Calixta - note-carrier of Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza.
Dionisio - husband of Donna Adella.
Vicente - husband of Carmen.
Brigida Samuy - She is the illusive woman whose Alfredo is looking for.
Setting of dead star
Don Julian’s house,Judge Del Valle’s house,Don Julian’s house in Tanda,Calle Real,Sta. Cruz
Theme of dead stars :
The theme of dead stars is that pertains to forbidden love. It say that forbidden love is only apparent and its banes haunt the person until such time he realizes his only fault.
Symbol of dead stars :
Dead stars symbolizes a dream for something that is nonexistent. She was his dream, his star. He thought he's in love. But like a dead star which is so far away, and whose shine could be the leftover traveling light from it, he was a long way getting the girl and he realized that he is no longer is attracted to her.
Irony of dead stars :
Dead Stars. The irony of the story is the moment that Alfredo decided to marry his longtime fiancée Esperanza even his real love is Julia. When Alfredo married Ezperanza he was not unhappy in his marriage, in facthe found his life to have simply ordered itself.







