The Rocket Book
Just like Sputnik the Rocket Book has been a very swaying component in the story of Rocket Boys. The rocket book wasn’t translated entirely as a symbolic meaning, but more as something that was very treasured like the idea of Sputnik.
The Rocket Book was given to Homer by his most favorite and dear teacher Mrs. Riley. This book came into thought when Homer was asking Mrs. Riley for some Potassium Phosphate for his rocket fuel and he didn’t know anything about Rocket fuel and he proposed a book about the Rockets. This book had a lot of formulas and math in it that Homer had no idea of understanding in it which is where Quentin came into the equation. A lot of the formulas were Trig and Calculus that gave them info from the best rocket fuel to formulas they used to calculate how high the rocket flew and formulas to calculate the telepathy of the rocket. Although there was a chapter dedicated to the Rocket Book it wasn’t referred too much, it was much glorious and helpful to the Rocket Boys than portrayed. The title of the book was “PRINCIPLES OF GUIDED MISSILE DESIGN” (199)”.
All throughout the book Mrs. Riley had wanted Homer to enter the Science Fair. When Mrs. Riley gave him this book Homer felt that Mrs. Riley had given him a book directly from God. At that moment in time, Homer felt like he could do anything because Mrs. Riley believed in him. The Rocket book was not just any regular book for Homer, but it was like a beaker of things that he could learn and explore with all of the books' information inside, in a way it had its own symbolic meaning. It had a meaning of hope, and the in the future, it would bring back memories of his favorite high school that taught him.
Homer H. Hickam continues to write 3 other books in the “Coalwood Series” the 2nd is the Coalwood way, the 3rd Sky, and Stone, and the 4th We Are Not Afraid. Rocket Boys is the first book in this series and one book in specific that is in a setting when Homer is home from college and he is talking with Mrs. Riley about doing his best and she sums up her whole philosophy towards his success in two words and she just says “Do Better”. I wanted to relate this back to Rocket Boys because since the very beginning she has been there doing support him and the Rocket Book is where it started for Homer.
Just like Sputnik the Rocket Book has been a very swaying component in the story of Rocket Boys. The rocket book wasn’t translated entirely as a symbolic meaning, but more as something that was very treasured like the idea of Sputnik.
The Rocket Book was given to Homer by his most favorite and dear teacher Mrs. Riley. This book came into thought when Homer was asking Mrs. Riley for some Potassium Phosphate for his rocket fuel and he didn’t know anything about Rocket fuel and he proposed a book about the Rockets. This book had a lot of formulas and math in it that Homer had no idea of understanding in it which is where Quentin came into the equation. A lot of the formulas were Trig and Calculus that gave them info from the best rocket fuel to formulas they used to calculate how high the rocket flew and formulas to calculate the telepathy of the rocket. Although there was a chapter dedicated to the Rocket Book it wasn’t referred too much, it was much glorious and helpful to the Rocket Boys than portrayed. The title of the book was “PRINCIPLES OF GUIDED MISSILE DESIGN” (199)”.
All throughout the book Mrs. Riley had wanted Homer to enter the Science Fair. When Mrs. Riley gave him this book Homer felt that Mrs. Riley had given him a book directly from God. At that moment in time, Homer felt like he could do anything because Mrs. Riley believed in him. The Rocket book was not just any regular book for Homer, but it was like a beaker of things that he could learn and explore with all of the books' information inside, in a way it had its own symbolic meaning. It had a meaning of hope, and the in the future, it would bring back memories of his favorite high school that taught him.
Homer H. Hickam continues to write 3 other books in the “Coalwood Series” the 2nd is the Coalwood way, the 3rd Sky, and Stone, and the 4th We Are Not Afraid. Rocket Boys is the first book in this series and one book in specific that is in a setting when Homer is home from college and he is talking with Mrs. Riley about doing his best and she sums up her whole philosophy towards his success in two words and she just says “Do Better”. I wanted to relate this back to Rocket Boys because since the very beginning she has been there doing support him and the Rocket Book is where it started for Homer.
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