Name: Camella M. Galapin
Section: BSED – E 3A
Subject: English 3116
Schedule: W&F (10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.)
Dead Star
“So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long
extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens.” One such story, Dead
Stars, examines a dream for something non-existent. A dream which has had caused him
disillusioned. The illusion harbored all the years is nothing but frozen trees, forever gone but
emitting heat that appears to be unfeigned because of the range it has to move, even if the origin
has wasted its brightness or disappeared.
Dead stars is a beautiful and typical love story that highlights the confusion on the
relationship between 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 shortly. Before 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 declines. In that
way, Alfredo becomes a little bit confused in his upcoming wedding where he is about to choose
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. The
relationship between Alfredo and Julia seemed to be genuine, but as the moment passes by the
affection they had wasted and disappears like such a disillusioned dead star, reminiscent of the
past that no longer exists. No, he doesn’t find her to be distinct from that individual he considered
her to be all these years because of lost youth. His shame, weakness, and being unreasonable are
innate human deformities. Alfredo considers something particular from Julia Salas that Esperanza
does not have, and I think of it as childish for him to distinguish the two females. He considers
females as his fantasies’ subsequent choice when it’s fading.
“An immense sadness as of loss invaded his spirit, a vast homesickness for some immutable
refuge of the heart far away from where faded gardens bloom again, and where live on in
unchanging freshness, the dear, dead loves of vanished youth.” Julia was his dream, his star. After
eight years of her marriage with Esperanza, seeing the significant woman of his past. He thought
he's in love. But like a dead star which is so far away, and whose shine could be the leftover
traveling light from it, he was a long way getting the girl and he realized that he is no longer is
attracted to her. Just like a dead star which is so far away, and whose shine could 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.