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Marriage and Alfredo Salazar
DEAD STAR
Title:
Dead Star
Author:
Paz Marquez Benetiz
Characters:
Alfredo Salazar – son of Don Julian, a more than 30 year’s old man and a bachelor. He is engaged to Esperanza but him still fleeting to Julia Salas.
Esperanza- wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is the other girl of uniformly beauty.
Julia Salas- sister-in-law of Judge Del Valle. She is 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-low 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.

Exposition:
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.
Complication:
In the story, dead star symbolize a dream for something that is nonexistent.
Conflict:
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
Climax:
But like a dead star which is do 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.
Setting:
House of Don Julian
House of Judge Del Valle
House of Don Julian in Tanda where are coconut plantation and a 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 the Lenten Season because they are celebrating the holy week proven by the procession they made with the Our Lady of Sorrow.
Summary:
The story revolves around Alfredo Salazar, a bachelor over thirty, and two

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