Space

Space is Dangerous

If you think about it, space is a place where there are different physical rules. Everything that is from planet earth,  is in danger of being released out into space without any spacesuits. Space is dangerous to joke around with because of the rising action, conflict, symbol, and resolution of the story The Cold Equations.

One way to see how space can kill you if you've never been there is the rising action “Later? this is highly irregular...then we’ll do it in a highly irregular manner-you’ll hear the disk first. The subject is a girl and she’s listening to everything that’s said. Are you capable of understanding that?”(14-15). This part of the story shows how space is really a different law and there is no way of changing that. Rising action also shows how space is dangerous. That's why space is dangerous to joke around with because of the rising action, conflict, symbol, and resolution of the story The Cold Equations. So now you see what has happened in the rising action, can also kill you.

The conflict is another unfair thing to life in this story is you will have to accept death when you don't want to.“No, your joking-your insane! You cant meant it!...But you can’t-if you make me leave the ship, I'll die”(14). The conflict automatically shows how it’s unfair to life that this girl wants to see her brother and she will have to die because space has different laws of life. This is  another reason why space is dangerous to joke around with because of the rising action, conflict, symbol, and resolution of the story The Cold Equations.

Another way The Cold Equations shows that space is dangerous is from the symbol. That western sea was on planet Woden, Woden-[Odin] (The name Odin is associated with war, battle, victory, and death. All is from Norse Mythology.) “...Group II was eight thousand mile across western sea...”(12). This portrays the incredible symbol associated with the story and how the planet, basically equals death.This also shows that the whole point of the story was I guess, about death, and how no one can survive the infinite frontier. This was another way the Cold Equations has shown in the symbol that space is dangerous.  

The final way that space could be Dangerous is stated in this quote. She was basically dying, she was being jettisoned and she was saying her good-byes to her brother. The resolution of the story is quite sad, because she knows that shes dying, but her brother just found out about that. He (Gerry Cross) is going to live his life knowing that his sister died, that’s just frightening to hear, but it’s true. Of course this story isn't real, but this could happen, and that would be really horrifying. “I wanted to see you...Don’t feel like that. Don’t let me go knowing you feel like that-----.”(26). Space is dangerous to joke around with because of the rising action, conflict, symbol, and resolution of the story The Cold Equations.

Space is dangerous to joke around with because of the rising action, conflict, symbol, and resolution of the story The Cold Equations. The rising action was very emotion driven. The conflict was breath-chilling. The symbol was very easy to understand why it was in the story. The resolution is heart-felt. For all of these reasons you should understand space is dangerous in The Cold Equations.