short story 3

I read The Star by Esther Claes. This story is about a girl who is a pop star experiencing the end of the world. In the story she keeps repeating that nothing is going to happen to her and that everything will blow over. She doesn't seem to realize that just because she is a star doesn't make her any different from the people who are dying right now. Her parents are talking of survival and starting to make arraignments for the end of the world. She still doesn't believe that anything will happen to her. At the end her mother is dying and her father is sick and is calling her name. She refuses to answer him claiming to herself that the maid will take care of him and tomorrow everything will be better. She is wrong.
The subject of the story is a young pop star experiencing the end of the world. The theme is that just because she is a pop star doesn't make her any different from the other people out there dying. In other words the end of the world doesn't care who you are, your going to die just the same as everybody else. I agree with the author. His message is very devastating but much needed. I feel that now a days people who are rich and famous think they are superior, but in the real world they are just the same as everybody else.
The author makes it very clear what he wants the readers to get out of this story. He shows this by the words that the girl says. Like when her parents are trying to explain to her that the world is ending she responds with "Not in LA ." Another way is when she is crying in her bedroom she says to herself "you can't comprehend how someone who has accomplished so much in such a short time should be allowed to go through something as horrible as this. You're a star, for God's sake, you deserve better than this." Why she thinks she deserves better, i don't know, money does strange things to people.
In the movie Titanic the subject is two people from different worlds fall in love on a boat. The theme is that it doesn't matter where you come from, love Concords all. The director shows this because they are sneaking around with each other because her parents don't approve. Another way they show their love for each other is at the end when the ship is sinking, Rose has a chance to get on the life boat, but she doesn't because she would rather die with him than live without him.