Rocket Boys

There are many themes that show up in the book Rocket Boys. One of the most prevalent themes is how dreams and goals are set, achieved, and destroyed. Homer Jr faces many obstacles in his hometown of Coalwood that set him up for failure but he never gives up on his dream because of people around him encouraging him to never give up his dreams. Growing up in Coalwood, Homer was taught to go to school, and then work in the mines. Homer Sr, Homer’s father, wanted him to follow in his footsteps by staying in Coalwood his whole life and work in the mines. Homer Sr was never supportive of Homer Jrs own thoughts and dreams. This was a discouragement for him. If it weren’t for Homer’s loving and supportive mother, Elsie, Homer probably would have…

In Homer’s memoir, Rocket Boys, family is possibly the biggest factor when it comes to a person’s drive. In this case Sonny’s dad, Homer, is strongly against Sonny’s progression with the rockets. He wants Sonny to grow up and be a mine engineer however, Sonny is positive he doesn’t want to have anything to do with the mine. Homer Sr. believes the rocket building is frivolous, while Sonny plans on getting a scholarship through them. This results in their relationship being poisonous. Elsie,…

Rocket Boys Essay - Determination The novel Rocket Boys follows the life of a young Homer Hickam Jr. and his life as a teen in the small mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia during the Space Race era. Homer and some of his friends are fascinated by the idea of space exploration and decided to create their own rockets though their homemade organization, called the “Big Creek Missile Association”. The idea is seen as completely ludicrous at first, but the boys work hard to overcome the doubt…

2. Homer's friends, the "rocket boys," were at first skeptical of Homer's interest in rockets. However, they quickly came to encourage his dream. Do we tend to encourage or discourage the dreams of our friends and peers? Why? Answer: I personally have never discouraged my friends that i remember of, but i would imagine if someone was jealous of his friend and see the progress he is making towards his goals then he might discourage him so he would feel better about himself because let's face it…

Hickam) faced several challenges that held them back and delayed their dream of building rockets. Most people would have given up after a failure. In Coalwood people do not go to college or leave the town and are destined to become a coal miner unless they are good at football. But Homer doesn’t want to be a coal miner and works to get a scholarship. He and his friends persevered (even after several rocket explosions and mishaps) and became successful. Striving to improve upon their failures,…

a beautiful time, there are four children memories about the rising rockets on October sky. There is a film about the agreement between four children and sky that is named October Sky, which is based on true story. This paper tells of this motivational movie about chasing the dream.There are four children who change their original destiny by researching manufactured rockets. There are many obstacles in the way of chasing dream, but they also keep enthusiasm. Even if they repeatedly suspected and…

October Sky book by Homer Hickam was a true story about a boy growing up in a small coal-mining town. The book was first released in 1998. In this book, we have acknowledged that women in Coalwood were strong in the 1950’s, and were feminist before the term even existed. Feminism is a personal, social, political, and economical movement that shares a common goal for women’s rights. It’s been said that the term “feminist” did not take place until the 1970’s, but many women were feminist before…

Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind (October Sky).” This exchange tells us that not a lot of hope was put into the boys because no one expected them to make it as far, and do as well as they did. People in the region could look to what the group of friends, referred to as “Rocket Boys”, accomplished and see that there is more to life that just working in the mines. There are more opportunities in life if they work hard towards their goals. This holds true even to today in the…

From the rather extensive list of summer reading books we were subjected to choose from, I, like everyone else read two books in order to complete my summer assignment. The first, surprisingly my favorite of the two, was October Sky, written by Homer Hickam, whom I discovered after a quick Google image search, is not the same persona as Homer Simpson, to my disappointment. It tells the narrative story of your average small town boy, the author himself, Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam, the son of a coal…

Art, Ross, and Morrie have a model rocket club in which they are testing their new rocket, the Starstruck V. It fails (it EXPLODED). They get out of the makeshift house they constructed to hold the model rocket, when suddenly they see a man on the floor. He has blood on his head and there is also blood all over the place. The boys assume that a piece of the exploded rocket hit him on the head, and they call the ambulance. Suddenly, Art recognizes him as his uncle, Doctor Cargraves. Everyone is…