October Sky Response(Blog 11)

October Sky

October Sky was an very inspirational movie and I learned a lot about rockets. During the movie, many of the events had occurred and were very fascinating. This movie's time frame was October 5, 1957 in Soviet Union. The movie had a lot of information for science and math. It displayed that a group of boys had a desire to build a rocket and than launch it. Homer Hakim had to go against his father's future plans for him and build his own rocket. His father worked for the coal mines and expected his son to follow his footsteps. Homer didn't do that though. He got his group of friends and learned a bunch of information for rockets and the formulas for it. Homer was never good at math but he learned it in a few amount of time for the science fair. His teacher, Miss.Riley, told Homer and his friends to participate in the science fair. It took them a number of times to build a rocket that actually launched a certain amount of distance. The friends didn't give up at all and kept their hopes high for being in the finals for the science fair. This movie showed all the struggles Homer Hakim faced and how he overcame them to be a smart person. The way Homer Hakim got inspired was by the Sputnik the Russians launched in space; the Sputnik was a satellite. The Sputnik encouraged everyone that anything is possible. for example, going in space in a space shuttle. That way, Homer Hakim thought of making a space rocket. When Homer and his group go to the nationals for the science fair, Homer got picked to go to Indiana and there he explained his rocket. They used alcohol for the fuel and the rocket looked just like a missile. Because of the magnetic force, the rocket curved. There was a fire in the woods which caused the police to arrest them. Quentin and Homer figured out the math formula explaining that they didn't start the fire. That proved their innocence using math. The formula they used proved that the rocket was no where near the woods, so there was no way that they started the fire. Homer's dad got injured from the coal mines. If you breath in all those fumes from the mines, then you can get lung cancer. That could affect your health and your lungs a lot! Therefore, Homer dropped out of school to take his dad's place for coal mining. Homer's dad recovered and came back to the coal mines and then Homer quit coal mines to get back to building rockets.

There were many character education shown or not shown throughout the whole movie. For example, Homer showed care. He showed care because when his father got injured in the coal mines, Homer dropped out of school to take his place. He did that so his older brother Jim didn't loose his scholarship for football. If Jim went to the coal mines, than he wouldn't be able to play football. Homer really cared for his family even though his dad didn't care for him. Miss.Riley showed respect towards the Rocket Boys. Everyone thought they they can't build a rocket but Miss.Riley knew that if they tried they will. Homer had cooperation towards Quentin when no one would talk to him but only Homer did. Homer had self-control when his dad told him that he couldn't build rockets anymore. Homer and his friends didn't get angry, they just found a new place to build it so that it won't be on company's property. Homer's mother had empathy towards the Rocket Boys when Homer's father didn't help them. Another reason she had empathy was because Homer's father started to yell at Homer and told him to get out, but his mother wasn't happy about it. Many people has assertion towards the Rocket Boys and supported them. They got them the materials they needed and helped them through the science fair.This movie was great. Overall, this movie inspired me to not to give up on my goals no matter what I have to face in the front of the world!