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Cold Equations By Tom Godwin Analysis

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A choice is an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. But choices aren’t just a definition, they are life’s biggest challenges. Choices can be as big as life or death, but as small as what to eat for supper. They are just a part of everyday life. Everybody has to make choices, even characters in stories have to make choices, like Marilyn from Cold Equations, Jean from The Nothing, and Miss Geiss from This Year’s Class Picture. In the story Cold Equations by Tom Godwin, Marilyn has to choose between killing herself and saving seven other people or not killing herself and killing seven other people. Marilyn didn’t know that the capacity weight of the space ship was limited when she got on it in the first place, but soon after being found by the pilot she …show more content…

Jean is having her mind controlled by the “Big All” but doesn’t realize it, which I think is why she chose to marry Claude, “The old man just smiled. Miss Carlysle,' he said, 'do you honestly object to-' 'As long as I'm going to be in the family you can call me Jean,' I said.” (4) This shows how Jean’s mind was being controlled by the “Big All”. This also shows that she’s not fully in her right mind while making the decision, it’s her mind being controlled. Jean is also starting to feel the guilt of her not marrying Claude because she starts thinking about how supernatural powers will run out, and it would be her fault, “'But we've got to do something!' I said. 'The world'll just go to pot!'”. (4) This shows that Jean wants to do something to keep the supernatural powers. This also shows that she is selfless because she is trying to save the world, even at her future’s expense. In conclusion, Jean shows selflessness and a bit of weakness by marrying

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No matter how ordinary a human being could be, no one has lived their entire life in someone’s shoe. Everyone stumbles upon different decisions in life, causing different but unique life experiences. However, one’s life can only be changed with one’s decision. Life is about making decisions, whether it’s right or wrong, it all comes from the decision maker.

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In the novel the Glass Castle Jeanette Walls learns from the mistakes of her parents that being successful in life depends of your characters and the choices you make in your life . Jeanette learns from her parents that if she doesn 't start thinking about her future at a young age , she’ll eventually be following the footsteps of her parents, and having an unpurposeful and an unrewarding lifestyle in her future. The Glass Castle suggests that in order to be successful in life you have to leave some things behinds and move on and that exactly what Jeannette Walls has done. Jeanette 's parents mistake was that they never thought about the future and always tried to enjoy the present. She chose to move away from her parents and live with her older sister and that decision she made was the main reason why she succeeded in life.

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