October Sky Themes

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In the movie October Sky I found that one of the themes is don’t let other people try to control you. October Sky is Produced by Joe Johnston and based around Homer Hickam and the rocket boys.
In the 1950s Homer Hickam's future was heading one way and that was too the coal mines like his father until he saw Sputnik 1 (which is the very first satellite in space ever) fly across the sky and then he knew he didn’t want to work in the coalmines.
Homer Hickam invited over his friends Quentin, Roy Lee, and O’dell over to try the rocket he just built and it blew up his mother’s fence. Later on after at least 15 attempts there rocket finally flew into the air and went so high that they couldn’t see the rocket anymore.
Throughout the movie Homer’s

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