October Sky

In the movie October Sky, I learned that boys did not always have a choice of what they wanted to be in life in the late 1950s. If they lived in a small town with little money, they were probably destined to work in their town mine with the other men in the town, including their friends and fathers. Homer Hickam, however, refused to let his destiny be taken place in the depths of a mine. His dream was to make rockets, and to be a Rocket Scientist. My response to the rocket portion of the movie is the following. I admired how Homer convinced his friends to join his rocket building even though they believed they were "too cool" to hang out with the "nerd", Quin, who was a great deal of help to Homer and his rockets. I was also interested in the way they kept trying to make the perfect rocket, which connects to the Character Ed trait, cooperation because they worked together and kept trying even though everyone in town, besides the boys teacher Miss. Riley, considered them a menace. In my opinion, personally the greatest part of the movie was when Homer's father, who rejected the rocket building idea from the gecko, finally came to see one of his "boy's" rockets fly. It was a tear-spilling moment for me, and I couldn't help but clap at the end.