Homer Dream In The Film Octobe's October Sky

Several years ago, times were exceptionally different from to the present day. The United States confliction with segregation and children having to follow their parent’s footsteps of their careers and traditions. A young boy named Homer Hickam struggled with his father’s way of living by choosing Homers dream for him, Homer struggled following is own dream due to his father. Homer dream of becoming a rocket scientist seemed absurd for the people in Coalwood, where most boys either be a coal miner or a college athlete. Keith black, had to deal with segregation in his city of Cleveland, he was limited to the amount of education he could receive due to schools in his home town. Despite that Black had his full parent support to become an excellent scholar. While both boys struggled with impossible situations they made their life their own by achieving the impossible.
In his town the boys are most likely to end up a coal miner or if they are lucky enough, they receive a football scholarship. Homers father, John Hickam did not support Homer’s career, John wishes his two boys Jim and Homer to follow his footsteps as a coal miner. Since Jim receives a football scholarship, it was up to Homer to become the coal miner, that was not Homers desire, he pursued his career to become a rocket scientist. Homer did have support from his high school teacher Ms. Riley, she gifted him with a mathematics textbook to practice his trigonometry. Homer learned mostly from his former classmate Quentin whom was a genius when it came to rockets and anything else. Homer had support from almost everyone in town, he made his way up to the science fair and proved his brilliance. It goes to show that no matter where you’re from it cannot stop you from becoming who you desire to