What is the message in Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez?

Answer 1

Paz Marquez Benitez uses a lot of symbols in his story Dead Star. The most used symbol is love, which is what his whole story evolves around.

Answer 2

"Dead Stars" by Paz Marquez Benitez explores the themes of regret, love, and the passage of time. The story reflects on how the choices we make in our youth can affect our lives later on, often leading to feelings of nostalgia and the realization that things may not always turn out as we had hoped. The title "Dead Stars" symbolizes faded dreams, lost opportunities, and the bittersweet nature of love and memory.

Answer 3

== == \ 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. \ 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. \ 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.

Answer 4

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Stephen_Crane's first http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Novel, though it is sometimes considered a http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Novella. Considered too risqué by publishers, Crane had to finance the publication of the novel himself. "Maggie" is an example of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Naturalism_%28literature%29. Naturalism is dominated by the idea of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Determinism, the notion that events and people's behavior are shaped by forces beyond their control. This pessimistic novel highlighted the deplorable living conditions of the working class during the so-called http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Gilded_Age. Naturalism http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Stephen_Crane's Maggie is "regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction." According to the naturalistic principles, a character is set into a world where there is no escape from one's biological heredity. Additionally, the circumstances in which a person finds oneself will dominate one's behavior, depriving the individual of responsibility.Although Stephen Crane denied any influence by Émile Zola, the creator of Naturalism, on his work, examples in his texts indicate that this American author was inspired by French naturalism. Historical context Maggie was published during the time of http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Industrialization. The http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/USA, a country shaped by http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Agriculture in 19th century, became an http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/Industrialized_nation in the late 1890s. Moreover, "an unprecedented influx of immigrants contributed to a boom in population,"creating bigger cities and a new consumer society. By these developments, progress was linked with poverty, illustrating that the majority of the US population was skeptical about the dependency on the fluctuation of global economy. Main characters Jimmie- a young boy, Maggie and Tommie's brother, who first appears in the beginning scene fighting a gang war of some sort with the Rum Alley Children.

Pete- a teenager, in the beginning, who is an acquaintance of Jimmie, and saves Jimmie in the fight

Father- brutal, drunkard, father of Jimmie, Maggie, and Tommie

Maggie- eldest child, protagonist of the story, apparently immune to the after-effects of the negative family, prostitute (at the end of the story, an implication)

Tommie- youngest child

Mary- drunkard mother, also brutal Brief summary The story opens with Jimmie, at this point a young boy, trying to fight a gang of boys from an opposing neighborhood all by himself. He is saved by Pete, and comes home to his sister Maggie and toddling brother Tommie, and a brutal and drunken father and mother who terrify the children until they are shuddering in the corner. Years pass, the father and Tommie die, and Jimmie hardens into a sneering, aggressive, cynical youth. He gets a job as a teamster. Maggie begins to work in a shirt factory, but her attempts to improve her life are undermined by her mother's drunken rages. Maggie begins to date Jimmie's friend Pete, who has a job as a bartender and seems a very fine fellow. He takes her to the theater and the museum. One night Jimmie and Mary accuse Maggie of "Goin to deh devil." Jimmie goes to Pete's bar and picks a fight with him (even though he himself has ruined other boys' sisters). As the neighbors continue to talk about Maggie, Pete and Mary decide to join them in badmouthing her instead of defending her. Later, Nellie, a "woman of brilliance and audacity" convinces Pete to leave Maggie, whom she calls "a little pale thing with no spirit." Thus abandoned, Maggie tries to return home but is rejected by her mother and scorned by the entire tenement. In a later scene, a prostitute, implied to be Maggie, wanders the streets, moving into progressively worse neighborhoods until, reaching the river, she is followed by a grotesque and shabby man. The next scene shows Pete drinking in a saloon with six fashionable women "of brilliance and audacity." He passes out, whereupon one, possibly Nellie, takes his money. In the final chapter, Jimmie tells his mother that Maggie is dead. The mother exclaims, ironically, as the neighbors comfort her, "I'll fergive her!".

Answer 5

The message in Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez is that love is often difficult and that reality must be faced, regardless of what a person's heart seems to be telling him or her. The love triangle is painful and sheds light on the difficulties of following one's heart.

Answer 6

"Dead Star" is a short story by Paz Marquez-Benitez. The plot of the story is that Alfredo Salazar was engaged to one woman and had intense feelings for another. He wound up marrying his fianc_. He thought a lot about the other woman and ran into her after about eight years. He found that he didn't feel the same way about her any more. She was like a dead star. Even though residual light still appears in the sky the star does not exist.

Answer 7

The protagonist in The Dead Star by Paz Marquez Benitez is Alfredo Salazar. He is a bachelor, and the story revolves around his relationship with two women, his fiance and a young girl from out of town.

Answer 8

The protagonist is Alfredo Salazar and the antagonist is Julia Salas.

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