Coalwood
Araiza Avila
Mrs. Leserman
English 10 H B
4 April 2015 In Homer Hickam’s memoir, October Sky each individual holds their own opinions as to how youth must be trained in order to become productive and valuable members of society. In a small town called Coalwood located in West Virginia not very much seems too occur. The small town’s main focus ought to be mining and Big Creek High School football, other than that nothing was quite as important to the community for quite some time. Among many Coalwood residents each individual trained its youth to be valuable members of society. Some individuals in that community might believe that training the youth to be valuable members is by guiding them to abandon Coalwood (which is focused purely on mining) and take off to college, ironically other individuals believe to train the youth to work with the mining company for the future. Although they both contain different opinions on how youth shall be trained, ultimately both sets of people have one goal in mind, which is to assure that youths become very valuable members to society. Towards the beginning of the Rocket Boys times not much was expected from the boys. Although you may believe that it was a cause of personal dislike concerning the boys, it wasn’t, as addressed on pg 118, “Despite the fact that we were off company property, we would later hear that some people in Coalwood were still unhappy over what we were doing”. This could’ve been particularly a case for anyone in that town, hence that no one attempted too try anything new in this tiny and tedious place. Excitement was nearly not visible as I can infer, “Coalwood had it’s routine for the beginning of winter, just as it did for every season” (pg 63). Cleary from this statement we can interpret that Coalwood was a very compacted town which carried out the same old, same old daily routines every year. To most residents of this town, it was repetitious and wasn’t used for anything much other than for coal.
Mrs. Leserman
English 10 H B
4 April 2015 In Homer Hickam’s memoir, October Sky each individual holds their own opinions as to how youth must be trained in order to become productive and valuable members of society. In a small town called Coalwood located in West Virginia not very much seems too occur. The small town’s main focus ought to be mining and Big Creek High School football, other than that nothing was quite as important to the community for quite some time. Among many Coalwood residents each individual trained its youth to be valuable members of society. Some individuals in that community might believe that training the youth to be valuable members is by guiding them to abandon Coalwood (which is focused purely on mining) and take off to college, ironically other individuals believe to train the youth to work with the mining company for the future. Although they both contain different opinions on how youth shall be trained, ultimately both sets of people have one goal in mind, which is to assure that youths become very valuable members to society. Towards the beginning of the Rocket Boys times not much was expected from the boys. Although you may believe that it was a cause of personal dislike concerning the boys, it wasn’t, as addressed on pg 118, “Despite the fact that we were off company property, we would later hear that some people in Coalwood were still unhappy over what we were doing”. This could’ve been particularly a case for anyone in that town, hence that no one attempted too try anything new in this tiny and tedious place. Excitement was nearly not visible as I can infer, “Coalwood had it’s routine for the beginning of winter, just as it did for every season” (pg 63). Cleary from this statement we can interpret that Coalwood was a very compacted town which carried out the same old, same old daily routines every year. To most residents of this town, it was repetitious and wasn’t used for anything much other than for coal.