2. • *Dead Star is a love story about a man named
Alfredo Salazar,who has his fiance 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 with his
father to a judge's house. He tries to seek love in
her, but she kinda declines. in that way, Alfredo
became 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
3.
4. • 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.
5. • ** CHARACTERS
• 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.
6. • 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.
7. • 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.