DEAD STARS Paz Marquez Benitez SUMMARY:
Paz Marquez Benitez wrote a story that any Generation-Z teenager will never understand. Dead Stars, a story of pain and sorrow that love can give to an everlasting life of happiness. ANALYSIS:
In the story, dead stars symbolize a dream for something that is nonexistent. The guy loved the girl. She was his dream, his star. He thought there was love there. But like a dead star which is so far away, and whose shine could actually be the leftover traveling light from it, he was a long way from getting the girl, and the love he t hought was possible, never was. MAIN CHARACTERS: Esperanza ± fiancée of Alfredo for four years Julia Salas ± the daughter of Judge Del Valle; a young gi rl out-of-town Alfredo Salazar ± the main in the story; a bachelor over thirty Don Julian ± the father of Alfredo Salazar Carmen ± the younger sister of Alfredo Salazar PLOT: A. EXPOSITION
Alfredo met Julia Salas in a out of town business. But rather Alfredo and his father, Don Julian, became close to Judge del Valle. In time, Alfredo fell in love with Julia. Julia did not have any affection to Alfredo. But Alfredo has an on-going relationship back at home. B. RISING ACTION
At the azotea, Don Julian and Carmen talks concerning the on-going relationship of Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza. Perhaps, the relationship between Alfredo and Esperanza for four years gradually ready to disappear. Don Julian once said ³I supposed long-engaged people are like that; warm now, cool tomorrow. I think they are oftener cool than warm. The very fact that an engagement has been allowed to prolong itself argues certain placidity of temperament--or of affection--on the part of either, or both.´ C. CONFLICT
Everyone takes it for granted that Alfredo will eventually marry Esperanza. But although he is ashamed to admit it, the intensity of his passion for Esperanza has faded and he is attracted to Julia, whom he meets at a dinner party. But he is aware that all his loved ones-including Juliawould disapprove of his failure to honor his understanding with Esperanza. So he and Esperanza get married and have a f amily. D. CLIMAX
Then, eight years later, he goes on a business trip to the town where Julia, still unmarried, lives. He goes to visit Julia, whom he has never forgotten.
E. FALLING ACTION
But he is surprised to find that he no longer feels attracted to her. He compares the memory of his love for her to dead stars, whose glow is still visible from the earth for years after they are gone. F.
RESOLUTION
Remember love is a choice not an obligation. Make sure to lend touch, gifts, time, acts of service and last but not the least words of compliment. Every person understands love best when it is communicated in one of those ways.
