Question

You are asked to mark up three excerpts from "The Cold Equations" that relate to the following themes:

•Innocence vs. Experience
•People vs. Nature
•Home vs. the Frontier
After marking the text excerpts, you need to record two quotes for each theme and note what you glean about each theme from these appearances in the text.

Answer 1

Marked up excerpts from "The Cold Equations" that relate to the given themes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Excerpts from "The Cold Equations" relating to themes

Innocence vs. Experience

"She came back to the observer desk with a little knot in her forehead that hadn't been there before." (Excerpt 1)

"You'll have to tell her." (Excerpt 2)

People vs. Nature

"...the doors closed behind him. And she was alone." (Excerpt 1)

"A hundred million miles away, alone in the night." (Excerpt 3)

Home vs. the Frontier

• "Came creeping out of Earth a few years ago." (Excerpt 2)
• "...in a tiny spacesuit beside the man who was waiting for her." (Excerpt 3)