The short story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin, illustrates my central theme “self sacrifice”. The characters are Daddy, Mama, Gerry, and Marilyn. The rising action is when she finds out that she has to go through with it that she hade to get killed. He hade to pull the read leaver down to shut the air lock between them, they sad there good byes and she slowly sank to the bottom. My theme is that self-sacrifice. It explains my theme in the story on page four fourth paragraph the author seas “What did he mean, to go through with is”. This explains my theme because she hade to go thought with having to die because they did not have very much fuel for that many people on the ship. The author explains the theme self sacrifice on page four paragraph
