6/5/2023 0 Comments Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam![]() ![]() ![]() is far more interested in Jim, due to Jim’s talent as a football player. Homer resolves to continue building rockets. thinks Homer is unfit for any work other than clerking, so by building rockets, Homer can prove to his father that he’s capable of being a scientist, and he can escape from a life in the mines at Coalwood. angrily tells Homer to stop making rockets, but Elsie encourages him to continue. He ends up blowing up his mother’s prized rose-garden fence, earning him much mockery from the townspeople of Coalwood. ![]() Homer’s first attempts at building rockets are comical. As he watches, Homer realizes that his greatest ambition is to build rockets, and eventually to build satellites for the government, like his hero, Dr. Homer and his friends gather outside to watch Sputnik pass over Coalwood. In 1957, the Soviet Union launches a satellite called Sputnik into space. His father is Homer Hickam Sr., the superintendent of the mine, his mother is Elsie Hickam, who makes no secret of her dislike for the mine and mining, and his brother is Jim Hickam, a handsome, popular football player. is a young teenager living in the mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. ![]()
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