Education From Influence

Have you ever had an unending drive to learn and succeed, yet certain influences continually prevent such achievement? This is the case for Homer Hickam and his fellow “rocket boys” within the film October Sky. However, they did finally succeed by persevering to build their rocket and win the National Science Fair. Many encouragements and discouragements provide education for the boys. They each learn something with each new experience while researching, studying, and building their …

…encouraged to build their rockets, and in doing so, they learned more than they ever imagined. Also, with different discouragements, the boys truly learned what is important in their eyes, so they follow their hearts to achieve a goal. Throughout all the negative and positive influences from other people’s attitudes and beliefs, Homer and the rocket boys finally achieved their goal to win the National Science Fair and also a scholarship to a college.