Coalwood
To begin with I wanted to blog about the setting in which Homer and everyone in the story lived. These last few blogs have essentially been the framework or the makeup of the story, and Coalwood is a big part of Homer’s background. In this blog, my goal is to dissect the reality of Coalwood and how it affects the people who live there.
To start off with, all of the people who live there are people who work in the coal mine. Most of everyone’s head of the Home works for mine. A big worry for Homer in Rocket Boys is being stuck working in the Mine like his father. Being the son of the Head of the Coal mine Homer feels like he is obligated to work for the mine almost like it’s a responsibility. Homer takes note of how his father is always stressed coming home from work, how many hours he is away from his family because he is always at the mine and Homer doesn’t want that. Homer refers to Coalwood as not only a place but like a prison that traps you in and it’s almost like you can never get out. Homer comes to this conclusion when He realizes that most of everyone in Coalwood do not go to college and he wants to go to college but he can’t because of his prison.
On the other hand, Coalwood is a part of who Homer is and where has come from and where he is going. As he travels around going from science fair to science fair, he realizes that he misses Coalwood and that he misses the mountains and its people. Homer realizes this before he went to the National Science Fair that, “Coalwood, its people, and the mountains were a part of me and I was a part of them and always would be” (329). A good explanation of that is that you can take the boy out of the city, but you can’t the city out of the boy, this means that wherever Homer goes Coalwood will always be a part of who he is.
To begin with I wanted to blog about the setting in which Homer and everyone in the story lived. These last few blogs have essentially been the framework or the makeup of the story, and Coalwood is a big part of Homer’s background. In this blog, my goal is to dissect the reality of Coalwood and how it affects the people who live there.
To start off with, all of the people who live there are people who work in the coal mine. Most of everyone’s head of the Home works for mine. A big worry for Homer in Rocket Boys is being stuck working in the Mine like his father. Being the son of the Head of the Coal mine Homer feels like he is obligated to work for the mine almost like it’s a responsibility. Homer takes note of how his father is always stressed coming home from work, how many hours he is away from his family because he is always at the mine and Homer doesn’t want that. Homer refers to Coalwood as not only a place but like a prison that traps you in and it’s almost like you can never get out. Homer comes to this conclusion when He realizes that most of everyone in Coalwood do not go to college and he wants to go to college but he can’t because of his prison.
On the other hand, Coalwood is a part of who Homer is and where has come from and where he is going. As he travels around going from science fair to science fair, he realizes that he misses Coalwood and that he misses the mountains and its people. Homer realizes this before he went to the National Science Fair that, “Coalwood, its people, and the mountains were a part of me and I was a part of them and always would be” (329). A good explanation of that is that you can take the boy out of the city, but you can’t the city out of the boy, this means that wherever Homer goes Coalwood will always be a part of who he is.
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