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October Sky (originally titled Rocket Boys) a story about a boy who, despite growing up in a small mining town, develops an interest in rocketry. Sonny, the main character, founds the Bear Creek...
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In the book October Sky, one of the main reasons for tension in the Hickham family was that they, along with other families in their coal mining town, were very dependent on the coal mines for...
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Oh, Homer's dream is quite grand, isn't it! There are many people who help along the way, most notably friends and teachers. Homer is the one who desires to build the rocket first, but if it...
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It is clear that Homer Senior and Elsie enjoy a somewhat conflicting marriage. Elsie obviously dislikes her husband's work and the way that this forces her to live in Coalwood and to raise her two...
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The nozzle directs a hot river of gas that reaches the speed of sound. Homer Hickman and his friends were interested in getting a rocket to work, but it was no easy task for the children of coal...
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The film "October Sky" tells the story of a group of American boys in the late 1950s who are inspired to build and launch their own rockets. Their main challenge is the fact that they live in a...
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Throughout the movie October Sky, the building of a rocket and the potential to go to college are inextricably tied. If Homer and his friends build a rocket, enter it in the national science, and...
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Throughout the movie October Sky, the building of a rocket and the potential to go to college are inextricably tied. If Homer and his friends build a rocket, enter it in the national science, and...
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At 32:10 in the movie Mr. Bolden watches the boys launch their rocket. He tells them that the washer they welded to the rocket for a nozzle is melting. They need a better kind of steel that can...
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The Soviet Union launched their first (and the world's first) satellite on October 4th, 1957. It changed the world of space exploration and international relations forever. The launch caught many...
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Homer's growing sense of identity is what gives him the courage to buck the trend of what is present in Coalwood and envision a possibility of what can be in his life. Homer develops a sense of...
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The original question had to be edited. Coalwood is highly significant to the development of the narrative. Coalwood is the small town prototype in America of the 1950s. Either one plays...
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the sputnik
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"October Sky" was Homer Hickam's slightly fictionalized memoir of growing up in a desperately poor area of West Virginia where the main source of income for residents of the town, the coal mine,...
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You might like to look at Chapter 11 of this great book, which contains a clear example of the scientific methos being used whilst also presenting us with one of the most hilarious moments in the...
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I would say that the Homer's pursuit of his dreams is probably the most significant element in his narrative. The fact that he never sacrifices his dream despite his father's inertia and the state...
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Dorothy Plunk of course was the girl that Homer had fallen in love with very early on in his high school career. He studied with her and fell ever more deeply in love with her as time went on but...
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Jim had gone off to college on a football scholarship and the last we heard was just absorbing checks to make sure that his wardrobe was keeping up with the fashions. We knew that he didn't really...
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The whole launch was so exciting to Homer because his father had finally shown up to watch and take part in this thing that had consumed his life. He had always felt like his father loved Jim more...
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Homer's dad embracing his son and his dreams represented the final act that had proven Homer's validity. Winning the Science Fair competition, meeting his inspiration, proving to everyone in the...
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Auk XXXI was actually six and a half feet long and two and a quarter inches in diameter, by far the biggest one they'd ever launched. The best part of the launch for Homer was that his father...
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One of the most powerful elements present in the ending of the memoir is how it showed the post- "Rocket Boys" life of each. All of them had gone to college and wound up doing something that was...
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When the boys began building rockets, Homer once joked that maybe they would have something to put in the trophy case to go along with all the football trophies. Jim laughs at Homer being a big...
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The problem was that Homer needed the machinists to make more casements and nozzles and nose cones but the workers are all on strike and they cannot cross the picket lines even though they really...
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When returning from the national science fair in Indianapolis, Homer is greeted in Bluefield by a bunch of well-wishers and he learns that the strike at the coal mine is over as well. He also...
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I am guessing you are referring to the people that come to watch their last hurrah of rocket launching where they start to head up to Cape Coalwood and the road is lined with cars for over a mile....
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Of course Homer is rather nervous when the judges approach and start asking him questions, but he is able to answer them very well and notices that one of them has a German accent. Homer then...
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I am guessing you mean the taxi driver? After the whole fiasco with someone walking off with the rocket parts from the display, Homer is obviously a bit anxious to have everything work out ok...
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After waking up and heading to the convention hall only to find that his display was there but all the nozzles, nose cones and casements were gone, Homer knew he'd better find a way to get a new...
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Homer and Tex went back to the hotel after the first day and had a good night, Homer remarked about the odd sensation of walking around Indianapolis and how busy it was, not just with traffic,...
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Homer had been at the Trailways station getting ready to go, packing all his big boxes onto the bus and saying goodbye to all the folks that had come to wish him well. He didn't expect Miss Riley...
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As they begin to prepare for the science fairs, it becomes clear that only one person can go and be present according to the rules. They decide that Homer ought to be the one to do it because even...
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From the earliest part of the quest to build rockets, Ike had been an integral part of it. Homer struggled with some of the more technical aspects of the building and as they had just started to...
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Homer goes to Welch to pick out a suit to wear to the national science fair in Indianapolis. He meets his friend, O'Dell, who helps him pick out a bright orange suit. When he goes out to find Emily...
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You must be referring to Senator Kennedy, who is in Welch on a campaign trip. Homer sees him when he is in Welch buying a suit to wear for the science fair in Indianapolis. The Senator has asked...
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Homer goes to Welch with his friend, Emily Sue, to buy a suit to wear to the national science fair in Indianapolis. Homer's mother has sent Emily Sue with Homer to help him pick out the suit, but...
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When Homer and Emily Sue go to Welch to buy a suit for Homer to wear to the national science fair in Indianapolis, Homer decides he can pick out the suit himself, so he goes into a store called...
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I believe you might be referring to Jack Kennedy. Homer and Emily Sue are in Welch to buy a suit for Homer to wear when he represents his high school at the national science fair. After he buys his...
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When Homer wins the science fair and is able to compete in the national science fair, his mother, Elsie, decides he should have a new suit to wear. Homer's friend and sometimes date, Emily Sue,...
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Homer's friend, Roy Lee, found out who it was who ran over Homer's cat, Daisy Mae. He meets Homer in the backyard one night to give him the information. Homer thinks it is Pooky, or his son,...
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Daisy Mae is Sonny's pet cat. Sonny lets her out of the house one night, hears screeching tires, and later finds out that someone has run over the cat and killed her. Elsie brings the cat's body...
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The boys predicted that Auk 25 would go 15,000 feet and that is what happened. It fell neatly and landed near the end of the slack, as they had expected. The impact bent the casing and shattered...
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The Rocket Boys had finally agreed to enter the McDowell County Science Fair in Welch. Every year, Welch High School had won the fair, but this year, the boys from Coalville were intent on finally...
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Homer (Sonny) gets in a tussle with some boys (Calvin, Pooky's son). The boys just want to talk to Sonny, but he thinks they want to beat him up. There is a flood and Sonny has his rocket nozzles...
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The townspeople really supported the rocket making and many of the union men helped the "Rocket Boys" out by teaching them how to weld and solder, helping them to build their tubes, etc. However,...
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You don't mention which chapter you are talking about, but I am going to assume you mean chapter 10, which is entitled "Miss Riley." Miss Riley is Homer's chemistry teacher in 11th grade. She is a...
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Elsie is Homer's mother. Unknown to her family, she had been saving leftover money from her husband's paycheck for years and investing it in the stock market. She had a broker from the neighboring...
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In this chapter, the Hickham family is sitting in their living room. Homer Sr. just gets up from his chair when a bullet comes whizzing through the window. If Homer had stayed sitting in his chair,...
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The rather terrifying thing that happened with auk24 was that it didn't even get off the ground. The electric ignition failed so the boys actually crawled out with a piece of tin covering them for...
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Auk XXIII went high and fast enough that the boys completely lost sight of it but it fell close enough that they saw it land in a tree and they knew it had only flown a little over seven thousand...