Dead Stars

Title: Dead Stars

Author: 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 thought was possible, never was.

MAIN CHARACTERS:

            Esperanza – fiancée of Alfredo for four years

            Julia Salas – the daughter of Judge Del Valle; a young girl 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 “I 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.'' 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 Julia-would disapprove of his failure to honor his understanding with Esperanza. So he and Esperanza get married and have a family.

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. 

Point of view

3rd person point of view

Conflict

Man vs Circumstances

My Comments to the whole story

''Dead Stars'' by Paz Marquez Benitez is addressed from one love to a woman to another woman. The story talks about forbidden love. This is one of the best story we could recommend in some teenager because it can help them to be more serious in love. Nowadays, many millennial didn't know the true meaning of love, that love is just not about romantic but having commitment. Overall the story is good, the character, and the way author wrote this.