Q. What was the story about dead star?
The short story revolves around one man, Alfredo Salazar and the affairs of his heart. He is a man who believes in true love and hopes to find bliss in its wake. The first woman he falls in love with is Esperanza. Their families are acquainted with each other and they thus they begin a passionate relationship.
Q. Why is Paz Marquez Benitez’s short story entitled dead stars?
The story is entitled “Dead Stars” because the love between Julia and Alfredo seemed real. – came from a family that is well-known for being prosperous and outstanding. – She graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1912 where she also became a professor that teaches about short story writing.
Q. What is the message of the story dead stars?
THEME The story “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez Benitez is conveying the theme that pertains to forbidden love. It says that forbidden love is only apparent and its banes haunt the person until such time he realizes his faults. 13.
Q. What type of woman is Esperanza in dead stars?
Esperanza – wife of Alfredo Salazar. She is a homely woman, literal minded and intenselyacquisitive. She is one of those fortunate women who have the gift of uniformly beauty.
Q. What type of woman is Esperanza?
The novel’s heroine and narrator, an approximately twelve-year-old Chicana (Mexican-American girl). Esperanza is a budding writer who wishes for a home of her own. The House on Mango Street chronicles a year in her life as she matures emotionally and sexually. The name Esperanza means “hope” in Spanish.
Q. How old is Esperanza at the end of the book?
The book ends on the day of Esperanza’s 14th birthday and Esperanza has finally learned to be grateful for what she does have: her family reunited, friends who love her, and most of all: hope.
Q. Why does Esperanza like Rachel and her sister Lucy?
Esperanza feels comfortable around them because they’re not pretentious. Their clothes are crooked and old, and they don’t laugh at her name. They come from a large family from Texas, and it’s their baby sister who dies in the chapter “The Three Sisters.”
Q. Is Alicia smarter than Esperanza?
She is much smarter than Esperanza. She is a good girl. She studies because she wants a better life. She is afraid of mice and her father.
Q. Why is Mamacita sad?
Minerva and Esperanza are nearly the same age and are both aspiring poets. Although Mamacita is unhappy, her sadness springs from her own helplessness, not from her husband. Rafaela is trapped at home, but she does have the freedom to make exchanges with the children through the window.
Q. What is Alicia afraid of?
Alicia has to take care of her family, including her father, while trying to go to school. She is afraid of the mice, and the mice are really symbols of her economic level. Mice are low on the food chain and the vermin of society , just as Alicia and her family.
