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Dawn or Demise? Comparing "A Walk in the Clouds" and Cold Equations
Summary: In the movie and short story "A Walk in the Clouds" and the novel Cold Equations, the decisions made by the honorable man in each story changes not only the man's own life but also the lives of many others. In "A Walk in the Clouds," Paul determines Victoria's life's outcome by saving her from being outcast by her family; in Cold Equations, Barton spares six lives by sacrificing Marilyn.
Everyone has to make choices. Your choices may or may not alter your life. What you do with the hard choices determine how you choose to make your life to be. In the movie and short story A Walk in the Clouds and Cold Equations the decisions made not only change their lives but the lives of many others. A Walk in the Clouds and Cold Equations have their similarities and their differences which may change the way one thinks about life today. I know that the relationships in the stories did for me.
The first thing that is outstandingly different is the setting. In A Walk in the Clouds it was not uncommon to marry on Saturday and ship out on Monday. For Paul and Betty this was just the thing that happened. Paul wanted fantasy love and Betty wanted a love based on material things. Victoria...
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