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The Cold Equations By Tom Godwin Summary

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In the short story “The Cold Equations” the author “Tom Godwin” expresses the theme of life and death. In the short story there was a girl named “Marilyn” who snuck into EDS pilots ship, the girl was young in her late teens she only did it because she hadn’t seen her brother in Ten years and didn’t want it wait any longer to see him. When Marilyn suck onto the EDS pilot's ship she expected a punishment but didn’t realize the extent of the punishment, she expected to have to pay her way through and pay a fine, but the real punishment was that she would have to be killed because the ship barely had enough gas to make it to his destination, so the more weight the more gas it used, and with her extra weight the ship would not make it in time to save several other people. After finding out that she would have to die when the ship got to a certain point she began to think she was being selfish not wanting to die, she thought how her family was gonna feel and her friends were gonna feel when she was dead. Eventually she asked the pilot explained this to Marilyn she was scared and terrified, she eventually asked the pilot if he would call her brother so …show more content…

When her brother finally came through not anticipating what he was about to here, he seemed upset that she got on the ship in the first place, but a few seconds later he seemed

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