In the story, "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin, Barton the pilot wanted to save Marilyn, the 18 year old girl who was considered an EDS stowaway. He most likely will not succeed because the mission he was carrying out would fail and ultimately kill a lot of people. The girl wanted to meet her brother and talk to him. The story shows events with restriction wherein a hero defies the restriction and tries to save the girl in the process, despite the negative feedback from the government pertaining a law to throw the girl off the ship. In the end, the girl accepted her fate, and after talking with her brother, she was ejected off the ship.
The correct answer is "The author includes anecdotes about accepting her brother no matter what happens. These anecdotes convey the idea that no matter what the author's brother did he would always be her brother and the author was willing to accept that because family is family.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
the sentence is personifying the wind by stating that it "sang a lonely song".
The prisoner is shot because the act of shooting a prisoner is near instantaneous. The action has no duration that would justify the use of the present participle, unless it were an order that had been given and were still to be carried out. Bombing raids over the third reich could go on for hours at a time and be carried on over consecutive nights, so the factories are being bombed. Think of it like this, the decision to shoot the prisoner could be taken, the order given and carried out - and even the mess probably cleaned up - but still during all this while the factories could quite feasibly have been being bombed, continuously, and without respite. Eventually the factories would either cease to exist altogether, or the bombing would cease and the shell-like structures would have simply been bombed.
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