My professor in Lit1 assigned us to read the story Dead Stars written by Paz Marquez-Benitez, the first Filipino modern English writer. I never thought that it was a love story. Actually, it was one of the typical Filipino love story but considering that the author is a Filipino that who would have thought we be able to wrote like this. Paz Marquez is truly a pride of the Filipinos. The story was about a man named Alfredo Salazar who was engaged for about four years to Esperanza and Julia Salas whom he has fell in love. In the end, Alfredo realized that it was not love what he felt for Julia. It was just right that he chose Esperanza over Julia because they have been engaged for a long time. The problem here was he allowed himself to love Julia, Julia may not get hurt.They have to move on now and continue life. When you love you will learn the word 'sacrifice'.

Daryl Hannah V. Frias