Homer Hickam's Character In The Film October Sky

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Recently in class we have been studying October sky set in a town called Coalwood, West Virginia in the 1950’s and at the end of the rock and roll era. Singers such as Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran were famous at the time and were featured in this movie. Coalwood is a very small town in which the main character called Homer Hickam lives, where almost every boy apart from a select few of scholarship winners escape the main occupation of mining until they are unfit to work. Homer is a young high school student who is inspired by his favourite scientist Dr. Van Braun and the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik to build his very own rocket. However, he has many problems to face such as his father’s disapproval, the lack of …show more content…

My personal favourite character in this movie is probably Elsie Hickam as she supports her son no matter the circumstances and will not be brought down by the control over which Homers father sets upon the family. She was even willing to divorce John if he wouldn’t help Homer and ask his workers to remake the model that had been stolen at the Indianapolis science fair. My most disliked character in this movie was by far John Hickam. He had more love for Jim Hickam and his mine than he did for anything else in this world. He was very selfish and could have given for time and effort towards his son's findings and researches that gave him the job of a NASA engineer. If you’re not proud of your son for anything he does I find that to be rather negligent. Quentin is one of the most important characters in the build-up he was a geeky genius with the stereotypical features. Such as his large rimmed and think lensed glasses, his larger teeth, his very smart pristine and clothing his skin condition which was in an imperfect spotty condition and the ability to remember things like the back of his hand. Without him knowing the mathematics and science he knows for having so little it is amazing and his contribution towards the last rocket named Miss Riley was utterly

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