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 rockets. The different encouragements, or lack there of, affect how the rocket boys achieve their goal of rocket building.

One of the greatest impacts on a person’s drive to achieve is their family and the various practices of each member. For instance, Homer’s father strongly disapproves of Homer’s rocket building. Since Homer’s father is the manager of the town coal mine, he believes that carrying on his work has more importance in the world than rocket building. As a result, Homer and his father’s beliefs always collide as to what Homer should do with his life. In a figurative tug-of-war, Homer desires to pursue his rockets and to win a scholarship to a college, but his father continually arg

receiving a scholarship to play football at a college. This favoring of Homer’s brother almost causes jealousy in Homer because he also wants go to college and pursue his own dream like his brother. However, Homer’s situation changes when his father is injured at the mines. Consequently, Homer quits school, along with his rocket building and pursuit of the science fair, to work at the mines to make up for his father’s absence. As a result, Homer’s father finally “warms up” to Homer, since he has “honorably” joined his father’s profession at the mines and abandon his desire to build rockets. However, his father’s attitude reverts back to his disapproval of Homer when Homer leaves the mines and continues his pursuit of rockets. Homer finally wins his father’s acceptance once his father goes to see Homer’s last rocket launch at home as a tribute to the rocket boys’ success at the National Science Fair.

Another aspect of Homer’s negative influence is the success of Homer’s brother as a football player. For example, Homer’s father does not concern himself with persuading Homer’s brother to work in the mines, since his future is already outlined by

work. This enables certain people who had assisted Homer’s rocket building to build the samples that were stolen. As many men can, Homer could always count on mother to come through and be there for him.

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