In the short story “The Cold Equations” written by Tom Godwin he conspired willingness and wanting, this happens when the little girl named Marilyn Lee Cross gets on the jet and isn't supposed to. The pilot discovers her and isn't willing to help her because there was 6 other men on the ship and their lives were way more important than the little girl's life. First off, the pilot of the ship is driving a ship in which they give an exact amount of fuel to get to there destination. “Everybody wants me dead and I didn't do anything. I didn't hurt anyone—I only wanted to see my brother." "It's not the way you think—it isn't that way, at all," he said. "Nobody wants it this way; nobody would ever let it be this way if it was humanly possible to change it." …show more content…
I don't understand. Why is it?" When humans go up into space at some point there weight more than triples. This could cause the ship to not be able to reach its destination, meaning that everyone on board would die. Marilyn had got onto the ship by sneaking onto it, she snuck on to go and see her older brother who lived and worked on a different planet. She had told her family and her older brother that she was coming to see him. So after sneaking onto the ship she hid in a closet. After they got got going the pilot had found where marilyn was hiding. "Come out!" His command was harsh and abrupt above the murmur of the drive. I said out!" He heard the stowaway move to obey and he waited with his eyes alert on the door and his hand near the blaster at his side. The door opened and the stowaway stepped through it, smiling. "Alright—I give up. Now what?" It was a girl.” after he had found her she was willing to pay a fine. But everyone couldn’t let her live. The other people were to important plus she was trespassing and they always kill the people that trespass onto the jet. So they were letting her live until they until they had gotten close to where her brother was but then they killed
The “First Flight” is an excellent short story that made pathos for the reader to portray in the life of an everyman who has to deal with exclusion and people’s bad choices. Gregory is an 18 year old who just wants to be sociable but everyone just shuts him out and doesn’t pay attention to him. He stops in a train station to warm up and is ridiculed on a false accusation of stealing a pilot uniform. W.D Valgardson perfectly shows both of the main themes.
The title of the short story, “First Flight” by W. D. Valgardson, may indicate that someone is attempting to escape an undesirable situation. However, this flight attempt may not go as planned and actually worsen the situation that this individual is facing.
In "F-16 Pilot Was Ready to Give Her Life on Sept. 11" written by Steve Hendrix the author writes about a pilot named Penney. She is nearly the first female pilot. Penney started off ready to pursue her career in teaching but, then changed to follow in her father's footsteps. Her father was a fighter pilot and she intended to do the same. The story takes a very unfortunate turn of events, when it talks about how Penney was having to do a suicide mission on September 11th. She had a mission to bring down airline flight 93. At the time there was no ammunition or missiles in her aircraft so it was a suicide mission she was willing to go on. Although, she ended up not having to do the mission in the end she was willing to give up her life.
In “The Cold Equations”, a short story by Tom Godwin, Godwin did some interesting things with time as he described the unfortunate story of a girl who stowed away illegally on a small spacecraft. The girl, Marilyn, did not know the consequence would be her own death. Unquestionably, in “The Cold Equations,” Tom Godwin manipulated time in order to influence the pace of the plot, because the manipulation and presence of time and deadlines creates suspense, inspires increased interest, and purposefully instills a sense of impending doom.
The second chapter of ' 'In Cold Blood ' ' focuses on the aftermath of the murders. While the townspeople and investigators cope with the murder of the Clutter family, the killers make their way to Mexico.
In Cold Blood, a novel written by Truman Capote and published in 1966, is, though written like fiction, a true account of the murder of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. This evocative story illuminates new insights into the minds of criminals, and how society tends to act as a whole, and achieves its purpose by utilizing many of the techniques presented in Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor. In In Cold Blood, Capote uses symbols of escape and American values, and recurring themes of egotism and family to provide a new perspective on crime and illustrate an in-depth look at why people do the things they do.
T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Friendly Skies” is the story of Ellen, a woman who is trying to get to get to New York to be with her mom, but has trouble doing so due to several delays. First, the plane has mechanical problems, this is followed by a pilot claim that they have lost their slots for takeoff. When the plane finally leaves LAX, the engine catches on fire, so emergency landing is required. When back at the airport she is only able to get a non-direct flight that stops in Chicago. While on this flight, Ellen reminisces about heartbreaking details of her past, so she takes prescription medicine with alcohol to try and diminish her pain. Eventually, a nervous man who had annoyed Ellen for hours, threatens to kill everyone because he is not happy with the airline service. With her built up frustration, Ellen picks up a fork and stabs the man repeatedly, which helps in restraining him long enough to land in Denver. The central idea of the story is that even a calm and constrained person can have an irrational outburst of emotion if his/her feelings are repressed.
Although the flight was scheduled to depart from JFK Airport at about 7:00 p.m., it was delayed due to a disabled piece of ground equipment and concerns about a suspected passenger mismatch with baggage. The airplane took off at 8:18 p.m., shortly at 8:25 p.m., Boston air route traffic control center (ARTCC) instructed the pilots to climb and maintain an altitude of 19,000 feet and then lower down to 15,000 feet. However, at 8:26 p.m., Boston ARTCC amended TWA flight 800's altitude clearance, advising the pilots to maintain an altitude of 13,000 feet. At 8:29 p.m., the captain stated, "Look at that crazy fuel flow indicator there on number four... see that?" One minute later Boston ARTCC advised them to climb and maintain 15,000 feet to which the pilot replied: “Climb thrust”. After an extremely loud and quick sound, the cockpit voice recorder stopped recording at 8:31 p.m. At that moment, the crew of an Eastwind Airlines Boeing 737 flying nearby reported an explosion in the sky. TWA Flight 800 aircraft had broken up and crashed into the sea, 8 miles south of East Moriches, killing all on board. (1,2)
Hardin, G. (1974, September ). Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor. Retrieved fromhttp://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_ethics_case_against_helping_poor.html
One of the oldest types of conflict in literature is the flight. It can be metaphorical flight, such as to escape a painful memory, or physical flight, such as from an attacker. In any novel, either a flight or a fight is the reaction to danger. In Station Eleven, however, Mandel uses flights not just as reactions to danger - they also become the cause of conflict. By doing this, this story is able to have a chain of conflict causing flight to flight causing conflict.
“The stowaway was not a man—she was a girl in her teens, standing before him in little white gypsy sandals, with the top of her brown, curly head higher than his shoulder, with a faint, sweet scent of perfume coming from her, her smiling face tilted up so her eyes could look unknowing and unafraid into his as she waited for his answer.” Barton, the pilot has the internal conflict having Marilyn jettisoned and saving the six dying people on Woden. Barton wants to save the dying people on Woden, and he also wants to save Marilyn but he has to one. His choice was to have Marilyn jettisoned. Marilyn is such a sweet and nice girl but Barton has to save the people on Woden, he lets Marilyn stay on the ship for a while and talk to her brother ( which was her intent ) Eventually, he had to jettison her because he has to balance the cold equation in order to save the people in time on
1. “Then, touching the brim of his cap, he headed for home and the day’s work, unaware that it would be his last.” (page 15, paragraph 1)
When I entered the airplane I was as excited as a 6-year-old could be about losing the people she loved the most. The greatest aspect of my fear was the idea of losing my mother. As a child, I always
The main purpose of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is to offer insight into the minds of the murderers of the Clutter family, Dick and Perry. However, asking an audience to be open-minded about men who have committed such heinous crimes is no easy task. Capote instead methodically and rather artfully combines imagery, parallel structure, and perspective in two separate passages found between pages 107-113 to contribute to his characterization of Perry and Dick where the former is deserving of sympathy and the latter, disgust.
The Little Albert experiment has become a widely known case study that is continuously discussed by a large number of psychology professionals. In 1920, behaviorist John Watson and his assistant Rosalie Rayner began to conduct one of the first experiments done with a child. Stability played a major factor in choosing Albert for this case study, as Watson wanted to ensure that they would do as little harm as possible during the experiment. Watson’s method of choice for this experiment was to use principles of classic conditioning to create a stimulus in children that would result in fear. Since Watson wanted to condition Albert, a variety of objects were used that would otherwise not scare him. These objects included a white rat, blocks, a rabbit, a dog, a fur coat, wool, and a Santa Claus mask. Albert’s conditioning began with a series of emotional tests that became part of a routine in which Watson and Rayner were determining whether other stimuli’s could cause fear.