Dead star

Dead Star

Alfredo Salazar – son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor. He is engaged to Esperanza but him still fleeting to 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 that remains 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 a complexion of a baby with a 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
Ø house of Don Julian
Ø house of Judge Del Valle
Ø house of Don Julian in Tanda where there are coconut plantation and a beach Ø Church of Our Lady of Sorrow
Ø Calle Real
Ø Sta. Cruz particularly in Calle Luz, hometown of Julia Salas Ø The time of the story is the Lenten Season because they are celebrating the holy week proven by the procession they made with the Our Lady of Sorrow.

Title: Dead Stars
Author: Paz Marquez Benitez
Setting:
i. Time: Lenten Season
ii. Place: Laguna, Philippines
Characterization:
* Alfredo Salazar- son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor who was engaged to Esperanza but he still flirting with another woman named Julia Salas. * Esperanza- Alfredo’s fiancee; She is a homely woman, literal minded and intensely passionate. She is one of those lucky women who have the gift of unvaryingly beauty. * Julia Salas- Judge del Valle’s sister-in-law; a woman whom Alfredo Salazar fall in love with. * Don Julian- Carmen and Alfredo’s father; a valued and educated old man. * Carmen- Alfredo’s sister who was trying to argue with her father about her brother’s wedding. * Doña Adela and Judge del Valle- the couple who was a family friend of Don Julian. Plot:

Alfredo Salazar, a spinster over thirty is engaged to Esperanza for quite three years and everyone takes it for granted that he will finally marry Esperanza. But although he is ashamed to admit it, the intensity of his enthusiasm for Esperanza has gone and he is attracted to Julia. However, he is aware that all his loved ones would criticize of his failure to honor his understanding with Esperanza, so he decided to marry Esperanza. Then, years later, he goes on a business trip to the town where Julia lives and he goes to visit Julia, whom he has never forgotten. He is surprised to find that he no longer feels attracted to her and he compares the memory of his love for her to dead stars, whose shine is still visible from earth for years after they are gone.

Point of view:
Third-person omniscient, the narrator can — and does — jump into the minds of many different characters. The narrator will tell us how each character is thinking and feeling, and will explain events according to how each character would interpret them.

Conflict:
Man vs. circumstances