Love and Interest, Tree of Red Stars essays

Love and Interest, Tree of Red Stars essays Often in life we are faced with challenges that force us to make decisions that can have conflicts with other values and beliefs that we have. In the novel Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal, the characters Madga, Emilia, and Marco are all faced with difficult decisions that force them to make choices between what they love, and what they value in life. The time is set in the 1960s and the country of Uruguay is having an internal conflict, or revolution, in which rebels are trying to take control of the government. Anyone living in a country like this would have to make difficult decisions, such as rebelling, being neutral, or patriotic. The choices and consequences of these decisions affect not only the people that make them but also the people around them. Madga is one such person who touched the lives of many people in making her decision to join the Tupas. Her involvement eventually led to the unfortunate arrest and punishment of one of her best friends, Emilia. Madga is merely trying to fight for a better government that will be responsible. Her interests and involvement here became a conflict with her love for Emilia. Ironically, the exact opposite may happen as well. Ones love for another can force them to make decisions that conflict with their interests. Even though a person may want something, if it forces them to give up who or what they love, then they have to make a decision. Emilia is faced with very difficult choices several places in the book, and she shows her tendency at a very young age, to pick what she loves over other values she might have. Emilia loves Peter, but because of the Tupas and the revolution in Uruguay, their relationship is torn apart. Emilia believes it is all the Tupas fault, and would much rather have a family with Peter and live in a corrupted country, than to possibly not be with Peter. People make these decisions based on what they believe to b ...