The Cold Equations

with gripping stories. Godwin’s short story takes place where tough decisions had to be made, and they don’t always have to be good ones either. In the short story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin the central theme has to do with sacrifice and it is being shown through irony and foreshadowing. The main theme of “The Cold Equations” is based on sacrifice. It is shown when Marilyn had to die to save other lives. “ You’re going to make me die and I didn’t do a nothing to die for – I didn’t do anything

short stories "The Cold Equations", "The Fatalist", "The Piece of String" and "Trap of Gold", lessons are a key part of the four themes. For example, in "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin, a girl named Marilyn boards a ship that is designed for emergencies only. The ship carries only enough fuel to for one pilot and the cargo. “To himself and her brother and parents she was a sweet-faced girl in in her teens; to the laws of nature she was x, the unwanted factor in a cold equation.” The lesson displayed

decisions that affect their lives and other people’s lives. On the other hand, each of these characters makes a choice but has no recognition of how the decision is to change their future. In the short stories “Popular Mechanics,” “A&P,” and “Cold Equations” the characters have to make difficult decisions concerning what they value most in life, and these decisions affect them for the rest of their lives. In the narrative “Popular Mechanics” the decisions that the unnamed characters make effects

selected the short story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin as a basis for our play. This play is about a girl named Marilyn who was ejected from the Stardust aircraft. Our group selected this play so we could create an exciting, interesting, and a suspenseful alternative ending. We titled our alternative ending The Slightly Warmer Equation because of the happy and light storyline that our play has in comparison to the dark and dreadful storyline of “The Cold Equations.” The reason we did this was

In the short story “The Cold Equation” by Tom Godwin, the author describes the internal struggle of one pilot and what he has to do and what he wants to do but ultimately knows that he must compromise his moral to do what he must. To start off, the story begins by explaining what life is like out in the Frontier, how dangerous it is and how harsh rules have to be because it is so dangerous. The story is about a pilot of an Emergency Dispatch Ship who finds a stowaway on his ship and debates what

the sole determinate when making a decision, however emotions should also play a significant role in the process. Although, scientific facts are crucial to consider in many situations, such as the circumstances presented in the short story, “The Cold Equations,” by Tom Godwin, both human emotion and fact must be considered when making a decision. The EDS pilot in the short story was presented with a troublesome conflict on his voyage; he had to decide whether to save the life of an innocent girl,

The short story,“The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin explains the theme of think before you act. To begin with, Tom Godwin portrays the theme of think before you act when Marilyn stowaways in the stardust and unknowingly something has to be done with her so the spaceship to save fuel,”Is that it? she asked at last. Just that the ship doesn't have enough fuel?” on page 5 This quote helps me prove my theme because it shows that she obviously didn’t think before she went into the ship. Second, another

In the short story “The Cold Equations,” by Tom Godwin, shows that love for your family is opposing love for oneself, because in her rush to see family, she ends up getting sentenced to die, and Marilyn embraces that she’s going to die, with sadness, anger, and fear at first and then eventually embraces it with strength. In the short story “The Cold Equations,” by Tom Godwin, Marilyn, a young girl, stows away on a ship just to be able to see her brother Gerry again. When Marilyn stows away, the captain

At some point in time, each person on Earth may have to make a life-changing decision that could affect not just one, but multiple lives. “Cold Equations,” a story by author Tom Godwin, highlights how science and emotion were used in two fictional decisions, both of which impacted the lives of multiple people in the story. Barton, the pilot in the short story, had to decide whether to end the life of a teenage girl, Marilyn, who stowed away on his Emergency Dispatch Ship. Her added weight threatened

In the story “Cold Equations” Tom Godwin elucidates the concepts selfishness vs selflessness, with the winning opposition as selfishness. In the story a girl goes onto a ship to search for her brother. She is found in a closet and is sentenced to death to save more fuel leaving her family behind to suffer for her loss. When she talks to her brother Gary, he tells her that it is not her fault and to not be scared, but i believe the opposite. In the story the author favors selfishness or selflessness