reaction by Marife delos Santos

The story "Dead Star" by Paz Marquez Benitez makes me realize how important being a responsible person is.At the story, Alfredo is already engaged with Esperanza, so he decided to pursue the wedding even he is not that sure.At their time, if Alfredo doesn't pursue the wedding with Esperanza, it would be the cause of losing his pried and dignity. Its the thing that Alfredo "must do" so he continue it, instead of quiting unto the wedding with Esperanza and be with Julia, he choose to be with the woman whom he proposed and promised a wedding. And this decision seems to be right, because at the later part of the story, Alfredo realizes that he doesn't feel the same with Julia.And this story also shows how to be real person is, because where only human, it is not a crime whenever we fell in love with other, whats wrong is we do not know what "must" we do and how we could solve our problem.Taking responsibility is also showing how dignified person we are, either on our words or action.