Homer Hickam was a teenage boy from a mining town in West Virginia called Coalwood. He inspired to build rockets when he seen the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, streak across the stars. With his friends and the local nerd, Homer sets out to do just that but with many errors and trials. Along with the town, Homer's father thought they were wasting their time with their rockets. He wanted Homer to be a coal miner just like everyone else but Homer knew he didn't belong there. As time went on, some people from town became interested in seeing the homemade missiles launch into the sky. The boys became popular and were known as the "Rocketboys" around town.
When Homer and his friends fired one of the first rockets off and it crashed into one of the company buildings, Homer's dad said not to shoot anymore rockets on company property. The mining company owns all of Coalwood so they walked eight miles to Snakeroot where they can fire as many rockets as they wanted. They named it Coalwood Missile Agency. They built a fort to stand behind when they fired rockets and a launch pad. They walked there everyday and launched a different rocket and everyday the rockets improved. There were a couple people in town that helped them with welding the nozzles on and ordering the right kind of metal to take the heat. Miss Reilly, the science teacher, bought Homer a book on building rockets for his birthday. Quiten, the local nerd, and Homer mixed certain chemicals in science class to make a better gas to make a better and more powerful launch. With this new formula the rockets became more successful but they would blow up in the air but they never gave up. They fixed the rocket when they put solid gas made out of moonshine inside the rocket. ...
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When he was about to shoot off the last rocket, he was thanking everyone for their help and support and his dad showed up. Homer let his dad push the button to launch the rocket. This rocket went for miles and miles. Miss Reilly and the people in the town could see the rocket from there. While his father was watching it get higher and higher, he realized that his son has done something spectacular with his life and that he was right for following his dreams. This story is about a teenage boy that had a dream and he went for it. No matter what, he never gave up and he kept getting better and better at building
rockets and understanding science. He knew that he didn't belong to Coalwood and that he could do something great in his life. The people believed in him after they realized he wasn't giving up. Let the inspirations keep inspiring.
...ders to understand, revere, and love the natural world around them. His Grand Style made an emotional connection to the natural world through the written word of man possible.
In conclusion, the boys in the Husky Clipper, the boys’ boat, turned into men when they started rowing. They became solemn and they realized that America was more than a bunch of people but one body of hard work. They embodied the American spirit and showed Berlin what America is. When the boys’ rowing career was up they helped in World War II. The boy’s never forgot the day they won gold, with a sick crew member. The boys had to overcome hardships, to work hard, and they never stopped being a team in order to win gold in
When they arrived they saw a weird thing on the moon. Bob thought it was an alien but John thought it was a space trooper and he also thought he was upset. So they went to help him and the nice space trooper was so excited that they came. The boys also gave him a new skateboard and they got all of the rocks out of the skateboarding area. The energetic space trooper felt better and he showed his skateboarding tricks to the boys. They were friends and John and Bob had to leave. So they said bye and they left. They went home safely and the trooper was upset because they couldn’t stay for that long and the boys were proud that they could meet a space trooper in
“Children embodied innocence and the promise of America's future and were depicted by many artists and writers during the 1870s. Here Homer reminisces about rural simplicity and reflects on the challenges of the complex post–Civil War world. Released from the confines of a one-room schoolhouse, exuberant boys engage in a spirited game. As the population shifted to cities and the little red schoolhouse faded from memory, this image would have evoked nostalgia for the nation's agrarian past. The boys' bare feet signal childhood's freedom but their suspenders are associated with manhood's responsibilities. Their game, which requires teamwork, strength, and calculation, may allude to the reunited nation. Observed from right to left, Homer's boys hang on to one another, strain to stay connected, run in perfect harmony, and fall
After high school, Chuck, being poorly educated and destitute decided to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. The funny thing about that is that Chuck never even saw an airplane on the ground until he was 16 years old, when it had an emergency and landed in a cornfield, and Chuck was not even impressed with it. He said the reason that he joined the Air Corps is because the recruiter made the Air Corps sound more interesting that the Navy recruiter. Anyway, Chuck joined the Air Corps as a mechanic. After a year of being a mechanic, the Untied States was short pilots, so they put up a notice to see if anyone wanted to become a pilot. Chuck signed the form; however, it took another year for them to pick him. It was always hard for Chuck to fit in among the other pilots and mechanics. Because he was from West Virginia, he had a strong accent, and a poor education, so he was never given a chance at first. Then, when he first went in a plane, he almost quit the pilot school because there was turbulence and he was bumping all over the place. On the other hand, once he flew a plane by himself he was hooked. He excelled in pilot school because he had excellent vision, 20/10, and learned how to dogfight, that is getting in position to shoot down another plane and avoiding getting shot down yourself.
It was going to be the most serious journey ever. One cold weekend in fall the three best friends decided to go on a journey. There was Nick the smartest person known to live at West Point middle school. The most cocky kid in school AJ he 's the one you want on your team if u want to win and trust me if he doesn 't win you want to stay away from him. The one that was known as the runt was Landon but he was just a little small for is age but with these three friends they could do anything and everything.
I recite, “success doesn't come easy, success must be earned, success requires determination.” Everyone has an endeavour to become extraordinary. In spite of this, many people do not possess the obligatory attributes to accomplish an aim or motive in their lives. In the film “October Sky,” Homer Hickam the protagonist overcame a sequence of calamities along his journey to become a successful rocket fabricating engineer. He clawed his way out of an ‘unenlightened cave’ where coal mining was his only fate. Where there lacked serendipity, there was no hope for someone as impecunious and unfortunate as him to become successful. The two utmost points of discussion I will address consist of Homer overcoming adversity and a connection through a powerful quote. Homer Hickam overcame
He was on the football team. His best friend carter was the star quarterback and the most popular boy in school. His girlfriend Becky was also very popular. When times got tough Carter was always there for him . He helped out Louie before football tryouts to get him in shape all summer. Then his school rival was boomer
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent their lives building and working with mechanical devices. They began with little toys as children and then grew up and began working with bicycles. These works lead them towards their work with airplanes. The Wright Brothers tried for many years to build a successful flying machine and succeeded. The Wright Brothers laid the foundation for aviation when they made history by being the first to create a successful flying machine.
Through all of his courage, he found what he was looking for. He dug deep and went to the extremes that were not normal to himself. All of his work leads to his dynamic characteristics.
The skeletal facts of his personal struggle for light and of his rise from the coalmines of West Virginia to the summit of academic achievement are great in and of them and can be briefly stated.
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
Hickam, a West Virginia native and author of the Rocket Boys. The audience consisted of people
...hood and a supportive family. He was able to finish school even though he tried poising and killing 2 of his professors. His parents supported him and they taught him how to get what he wanted. Family is such an important factor to success because with out moral support, one can only do so much.
saw the future demands of the computer industry. He was able to build a personal