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\ 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

Setting
Ø house of Don Julian
Ø house of Judge Del Valle
Ø house of Don Julian in Tanda where there are coconut plantation and a beach
Ø Church of Our Lady of Sorrow
Ø Calle Real
Ø Sta. Cruz particularly in Calle Luz, hometown of Julia Salas
Ø The time of the story is the Lenten Season because they are celebrating the holy week proven by the procession they made with the Our Lady of Sorrow.

Title: Dead Stars
Author: Paz Marquez Benitez
Setting:
i. Time: Lenten Season ii. Place: Laguna, Philippines
Characterization:
* Alfredo Salazar- son of Don Julian, a more than 30 years old man and a bachelor who was engaged to Esperanza but he still flirting with another woman named Julia Salas.
* Esperanza- Alfredo’s fiancee; She is a homely woman, literal minded and intensely passionate. She is one of those lucky women who have the gift of unvaryingly beauty.
* Julia Salas- Judge del Valle’s sister-in-law; a woman whom Alfredo Salazar fall in love with.
* Don Julian- Carmen and

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