Sputnik
For the next 2 blogs, I am going to blog about Sputnik and the Rocket Book. The reason I chose to blog over these two is because just like the characters that were blogged about Sputnik and the Rocket Book both had an impact on the Rocket Boys in more than one way.
Let’s start with Sputnik. As earlier mentioned, Sputnik was a Russian satellite that launched in the fall of the year 1957. Homer was watching TV when his hero appeared to show and was talking about how America would be able to rival Russia by making a satellite of our own and thus the Space Race had begun. Shortly after, Homer organized a gathering to watch it fly by that starry night. In that moment he had a passion for acquiring some knowledge to be with Van Bran, Homer Jr. said, “I wanted to be with him” (30). So in essence Sputnik sparked this journey of wanting to build rockets, Sputnik had a Symbolic meaning not only for Homer but for everyone who looked up and watched it fly by the stars. When it flew by the stars someone could mistake it for a shooting star although it wasn’t one it sure had the effect on people that a shooting star would. The reason it had a symbolic meaning was because it was the first time that man as a race had ever reached the stars and reaching the stars was a feat in it of itself and that meant that anything is possible.
The effect that it had on Homer was almost dumbfounding. The way that Homer stated it was, “Then I saw the bright little ball, moving majestically across the narrow star field between the ridge lines. I stared at it with no less rapt attention than if it had been God Himself In a golden chariot riding overhead” (32). Homer compares it to how it seemed like it was God Himself in a golden chariot riding overhead, this comparison explains how symbolic Sputnik was on Homer. One would also imply that somewhere else the effect of Sputnik had an impact on more than one life.
For the next 2 blogs, I am going to blog about Sputnik and the Rocket Book. The reason I chose to blog over these two is because just like the characters that were blogged about Sputnik and the Rocket Book both had an impact on the Rocket Boys in more than one way.
Let’s start with Sputnik. As earlier mentioned, Sputnik was a Russian satellite that launched in the fall of the year 1957. Homer was watching TV when his hero appeared to show and was talking about how America would be able to rival Russia by making a satellite of our own and thus the Space Race had begun. Shortly after, Homer organized a gathering to watch it fly by that starry night. In that moment he had a passion for acquiring some knowledge to be with Van Bran, Homer Jr. said, “I wanted to be with him” (30). So in essence Sputnik sparked this journey of wanting to build rockets, Sputnik had a Symbolic meaning not only for Homer but for everyone who looked up and watched it fly by the stars. When it flew by the stars someone could mistake it for a shooting star although it wasn’t one it sure had the effect on people that a shooting star would. The reason it had a symbolic meaning was because it was the first time that man as a race had ever reached the stars and reaching the stars was a feat in it of itself and that meant that anything is possible.
The effect that it had on Homer was almost dumbfounding. The way that Homer stated it was, “Then I saw the bright little ball, moving majestically across the narrow star field between the ridge lines. I stared at it with no less rapt attention than if it had been God Himself In a golden chariot riding overhead” (32). Homer compares it to how it seemed like it was God Himself in a golden chariot riding overhead, this comparison explains how symbolic Sputnik was on Homer. One would also imply that somewhere else the effect of Sputnik had an impact on more than one life.
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