October Sky Response

October Sky is a movie that can be very educational for students in middle school and high school.It is a story about a teenager named Homer Hickam who grew up in a coal mine town.After seeing sputnik the first russian satelite he was dedicated to build his very on rocket.This would be so much better for his life, his father wanted him to be a miner but thats not what Homer had in mined.It is very dangerous in the coal mines its deep under ground and cavins and other dangerous things could happens, also you can get black lung from working in there all your life.Black lung would be from the dust you are breathing in constantly in the mines.Spudnik was not what homer was looking to build he wanted a rocket that he could launch.Three friends helped take part in the rocket building, since they werent a loud to launch rockets on town property they went to a deserted area 8 miles away from company property.When launching home made rockets people came to watch soon the whole town knew.Then supposivly they started a forest fire with the rocket and were no longer a loud to do this.Homer knowing he didnt start the fire soon started doing math to prove it.He proved he didnt start the fire with his mathematics using science like winds and the distance it would of went.Homer was now a loud to launch rockets again.Although the town did not like this rocket launching his teacher did and told him to try out the science fair and if you come first in that one there is another fair that hands out scholarships for colleges if in first.Homer tried it out and got first in the fair soon after he got first for the other and got a scholarship for a college.You would have to give some credit for the three boys and the teacher too.the boys respected Homers ideas and how to not work in the mine,and they were coopertive for were they had to go and what they had to do.Then there is the teacher were she shows empathy and keeps pushing Homer to go on and incouraging him to meet his goal.