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- 2. Paz Marquez- Benitez (1894-1983) - Born in 1894 in Lucena, Tayabas (now Quezon) - Authored the first Filipino modern English language short story, Dead Stars, published in the Philippine Herald in 1925.
- 3. - -Born into the prominent Marquez family of Quezon province, she was among the first generation of Filipino people trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. - She graduated high school in Tayabas High School now, Quezon National High School. She was a member of the first freshman class of the University of the Philippines, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912.
- 4. - Two years after graduation, she married UP College of Education Dean Francisco Benítez with whom she had four children. -Márquez-Benítez later became a teacher at the University of the Philippines, who taught short-story writing and had become an influential figure to many Filipino writers in the English language.
- 5. -Although she only had one more published short story after "Dead Stars" entitled "A Night in the Hills," she made her mark in Philippine literature because the former is considered the first modern Philippine short story. -For Marquez-Benitez, writing was a lifelong occupation. In 1919, she founded "Woman's Home Journal," the first women's magazine in the country.
- 6. -When her husband died in 1951, she took over as editor of the Philippine Journal of Education at UP. She held the editorial post for over two decades. -In 1995, her daughter Virginia Benitez- Licuanan wrote her biography "Paz Marquez-Benitez: One Woman's Life, Letters, and Writings."
- 7. 1. ALFREDO SALAZAR- son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor man. He is engaged to Esperanza but him steel fleeting to Julia Salas. 2. ESPERANZA- wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is a homely woman, literal minded, intensely acquisitive. She is one of those fortunate woman who have the gift of uniformly beauty.
- 8. 3. JULIA SALAS- sister-in-law of judge Del Velle. She is the other girl of Alfredo Salazar that remains single her entire life. 4. DON JULIAN- an old man, a father of Alfredo Salazar and Carmen. 5. CARMEN-sister of Alfredo Salazar. 6. JUDGE DEL VELLE- brother-in-law of Julia Salas. 7. DONNA ADELLA- sister of Julia Salas. She is a small and plump, a pretty woman with a complexion of a baby with a expression of a likeable cow.
- 9. 8. CALIXTA- note-carrier of Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza. 9. DIONISIO- husband of Donna Adella 10. VICENTE- husband of Carmen 11. BRIGIDASAMUY- she is the illusive woman whose Alfredo Salazar is looking for.
- 11. The plot of the story “Dead Star” about the romantic relationship between the three main characters Alfredo, Esperanza and Julia the beginning of the story is dominated by the engagement between Alfredo and Esperanza
- 12. The climax of the story “Dead Star” is in eight years later he goes on a business trip to the town where Julia, still unmarried and hr goes to visit Julia whom he has never forgotten it.
- 13. A love triangle between Alfredo, Esperanza and Julia, Alfredo was remembering what happened six week ago. He had gone neighboring with Don Julian his father. He met Julia Salas in Judge Del Valle house. After the procession Alfredo and Julia met
- 14. Alfredo met Julia in a out of town business. But rather Alfredo and his father, Don Julian, become 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.
- 15. Unexpected things happen rapidly in a short period of time and one day, we will have to make the right choices for the happiness of the ones we love like Alfredo, he chose to marry Esperanza over Julia because Esperanza was the one being liked by his family for him. He had no choice but to pick which
- 16. will make his family happy and as well as to do not hurt Esperanza, the one she love before Julia came. He doesn’t want also to break their upcoming wedding. As people, we may fall in love at the wrong time, which is may force us to home conflict with ourselves. When he met Julia, he began to fell in love with her, but that time, he was already engaged for three
- 17. years with Esperanza. He become a little bit confused whether what to choose between something he wanted to do against something he had to go. Although he fell out of love with Esperanza, he still chose her because of an agreement and understanding between their families. He still wanted to be fair at even if it is difficult.
- 18. In the story, Alfredo struggles against his fate and the circumstances of life and love facing him. He needs to face problems in choosing between difficult choices of his life. Everyone takes it for granted that Alfredo eventually marry Esperanza.
- 19. 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.
- 20. 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.
- 21. The theme of the story is conveying to pertain to forbidden love and it say that forbidden love is only apparent and it’s banes person until such time that he is realizes his fault.
- 22. Esperanza & Julia Represents a woman who is meek and consider men to be superior Also represents woman who may be fall in love once, but the thought about romantic feelings fades easily Alfredo Salazar Represents men that are confused and uncertain
- 23. The Dead star symbolize a dream for something that nonexistent. The guy fell in love with a girl. She was his dream, his star. He thought he's in love. But like a dead star so far away, and whose shine could be the leftover traveling light from it, he was long way getting the girl and he realized that he is no longer attracted to her.
- 24. The love of the guy for the girl is like a dead star, whose shine is still visible from the earth for years after they are gone.
- 25. The author tells the story in third person because he used pronouns like they, she, he, it and many more. We know only what the character knows and what the author allows him or her to tell us.
- 27. MEMBERS: Legaspi, Jhane Quiroz, Jian Paul Rojo, Daisy Catalan, Nica Mae Guzon, Cynthia Joson, Rafaella De Leon, Morellia Gia Amaro, Jolina
- 28. Documentation