Adoración Bodoque Martínez Oct 13, 2015:

@Neil Thank you, Neil.

Neil Ashby Oct 13, 2015:

@ Adoración ;@) ... either way I think you have a good point re: the whole paragraph refers to the wooden chair...

Adoración Bodoque Martínez Oct 13, 2015:

@Neil I know, Neil. Muriel did. I apologise for any confusion.

Neil Ashby Oct 13, 2015:

@ Adoración I never thought that "ella" ever referred to the star.

Muriel Vasconcellos Oct 13, 2015:

@Adoración I see it now.

Adoración Bodoque Martínez Oct 13, 2015:

Muriel & Neil I don't think it can be the star that "ella" is referring to, as the only reference to the stars in the extract is in plural; there is no mention of a single star, as far as I can see.

There may be something else outside this given context that clarifies what "ella" may be referring to. Otherwise, it has to be either the chair or her loneliness.

It may well be that "ella" refers to "la soledad", but the reason why I think it is more likely to refer to the chair is that this seems to be the "protagonist" in the whole extract:

It is where she would sit to look at the stars;
Kito would curl up beneath it (giving the impression that the child felt protected by the chair);
it is the chair where her husband used to sit;
it is where she would sit to accompany her loneliness (because it is where her husband used to sit).

Neil Ashby Oct 13, 2015:

Muriel doesn't the LA you mention refer to the seat (silla de madera)?

Also I think Franglish is right about ELLA = soledad,

"....and in which I found myself to accompany my loneliness. From my first night at that plantation, solitude became my soulmate.

Muriel Vasconcellos Oct 13, 2015:

I think it's the star Notice that she says "en LA que yo me encontraba para acompañar a la soledad."

franglish Oct 12, 2015:

ella refers to la soledad.