As the plot continues, we start to learn the small details of Marilyn’s life. She says, “I haven’t seen [Gerry] for so long, and I didn’t want to wait another year when I could see him now…” (3). All she wanted to do was see her brother, she didn’t do anything wrong. She is just a young, naive girl who didn’t know what she was doing. “If you make me leave the ship, I’ll die” (5). Learning about Marilyn’s reasoning is very important. Now the reader is close to Marilyn and doesn’t want her to die, causing suspense and uncertainty about the ending.
Barton waits until the very last second the kill Marilyn because he knows that there is nothing to be done about her fate, but he can give her as long as possible to stay alive and write letters to
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Marilyn died for doing something she didn’t understand the consequences of, but he family will love her even though she is gone. Another reason is Barton understands human emotion and feeling, even in the middle of the cold frontier. He is able to comfort Marilyn, and tell her she won’t be forgotten. He is able to retain his human qualities so far away from Earth. The passage says a lot about human love and emotion
The cold equations are the ones that state that an EDS can only carry a certain amount of people with a certain amount of fuel. And if there is anything not accounted for, it is x, not wanted or needed. In this situation it is Marilyn. Other examples of coldness is when Marilyn pauses to ask if Barton thinks it’s cold in the EDS. And Barton says it’s colder than it should be. Coldness also makes an appearance when Barton is supposed to coldy kill whatever stowaway he
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Because man had ventured out of forgiving area of Earth, they were subject to nature’s laws in the frontier. Nature does not take into account people’s feelings and emotions, it just does what it pleases. This is shown in this short story, because in the end, Marilyn is killed, and nothing she felt or Barton did could have changed