Achieving your Dream
Achieving Your Dream
Striving for greatness comes with overcoming obstacles on the journey. Many people believe that in order to be accepted in society, you have to continuously be striving to be a better person. Nobody accepts who they really are and are constantly needing the approval of the people around them. In the movie October Sky, Homer Hickam is constantly trying to be accepted in his society and to his parents. From the experience in my life, having the approval of someone makes life alot easier to bear.
Hickam starts out his life but dreaming to play football and later on earn a scholarship. Everyone around him puts him down and calls him names because he is not talented at any sport. Then he finds out that Russia had launched their first satellite in space. He begins thinking about rockets and how there is a scientific and mathematical explanation to why they fly and fall in a certain way. This is the begining of his long and brutal journey. To begin his journey, he gathers all his friends and “nerds” to help him launch his first rocket. They launch their first rocket and was unfortunately unsuccessful. Hickam and his friends decide to not give up so they launch their second rocket not much later and its not a success but its an enormous progress. They realize their rocket is malleable, so they shape into a way that it will fly further and land in a certain place. By the time they came up with this theory, Hickam’s dad lets the boys know that they are not allowed to launch anymore rockets on his company’s ground. This is a fallback into their plan to launch an amazing rocket by Hickam then realizes that if they travel eight miles down they are off the company’s ground and they are able to continue launching their rockets and seeing progress. Hickam’s dad along with the rest of his classmate’s including his brother are always making fun of him because they believe that launching a rocket requires no physical skill while his brother and dad is doing
Striving for greatness comes with overcoming obstacles on the journey. Many people believe that in order to be accepted in society, you have to continuously be striving to be a better person. Nobody accepts who they really are and are constantly needing the approval of the people around them. In the movie October Sky, Homer Hickam is constantly trying to be accepted in his society and to his parents. From the experience in my life, having the approval of someone makes life alot easier to bear.
Hickam starts out his life but dreaming to play football and later on earn a scholarship. Everyone around him puts him down and calls him names because he is not talented at any sport. Then he finds out that Russia had launched their first satellite in space. He begins thinking about rockets and how there is a scientific and mathematical explanation to why they fly and fall in a certain way. This is the begining of his long and brutal journey. To begin his journey, he gathers all his friends and “nerds” to help him launch his first rocket. They launch their first rocket and was unfortunately unsuccessful. Hickam and his friends decide to not give up so they launch their second rocket not much later and its not a success but its an enormous progress. They realize their rocket is malleable, so they shape into a way that it will fly further and land in a certain place. By the time they came up with this theory, Hickam’s dad lets the boys know that they are not allowed to launch anymore rockets on his company’s ground. This is a fallback into their plan to launch an amazing rocket by Hickam then realizes that if they travel eight miles down they are off the company’s ground and they are able to continue launching their rockets and seeing progress. Hickam’s dad along with the rest of his classmate’s including his brother are always making fun of him because they believe that launching a rocket requires no physical skill while his brother and dad is doing