Dead Star
Synopsis
The story revolves around Alfredo Salazar, a bachelor over thirty, and two women. Esperanza, his fiancée of four years, and a young girl from out-of –town named Julia Salas. 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 w/ Esperanza. So he and Esperanza get married and have a family. 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. 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.
Dead star is a love story about a man named Alfredo Salazar, who has his fiancé in the person of Esperanza and they have been engaged for quite some time. Society views them as an ideal couple. Their wedding is about to take place in the near future. Prior to the wedding however, he sees another girl, when he goes w/ his father to a judge’s house. He tries to seek love in her, but she kinda declines. In that way, Alfredo become a little bit confused in his upcoming wedding where he is about to chose between two options, to do what he should do by marrying Esperanza as prescribed by his parents or to do what he wants to do by having Julia Salas, his dream- the dead star in his life.
In the story, dead star 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 w/c is so far away, and whose shine could actually be the leftover travelling light from it, he was a long way from getting the girl, and the love he thought was possible, never was.
Characters:
Alfredo Salasar – son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor. He is engaged to Ezperanza but him still fleeting to Julia Salas.
Esperanza – wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is 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 Salazar
Judge Del Valle – brother-in-law of Julia salas
Donna Adella – sister of Julia Salas. She is small and plump, a pretty woman w/ a complexion of a baby w/ a expression of 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:
House of Don Julian
House of judge Del Valle
House of don Julian in tanda where there are coconut plantation and beach
Church of our lady of sorrow
Calle real
Sta. Cruz particularly in calle luz, hometown of Julia salas
The time of the story is Lenten season because they are celebrating the holy week proven by the procession they made w/ the our lady of sorrow
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