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Posted 13 November 2006 - 03:08 PM

List the EXTERNAL CONFLICTS that Homer and the Rocket Boys face:

- Coalwood is a small town, and the Rocket Boys might’ve gotten off to a better start in a better, larger city.
- Homer’s father expects him to mine coals, when Homer really wants to go into rocketry.
- The Rocket Boys need to find ways of getting their own equipment and supplies.
- At first, the Rocket Boys do not have a place to launch their rockets, since they were forbidden to do it on company grounds.
- They then had to walk eight miles every time to work on the rockets.
- Their class at school laughed at them, and discouraged them.
- There was a fire, which they were accused to have started through a rocket.
- Homer had to start working, because his father was sick and couldn’t.
- None of the Rocket Boys are probably rich enough to make it easy for them to work with the rockets.








List the INTERNAL CONFLICTS that Homer and the Rocket Boys face:

- They don’t think they have much of a chance to win the National Science Fair.
- They feel the need to prove themselves to the small town.
- Homer’s brother got a football scholarship, while he isn’t a very good football player and is expected to work in the coal mines.
- The fire, which got them in trouble, probably made them angry and frustrated, since they didn’t really do it.
- Homer needs to drop-out of high school in order to work in the coal mines.
- Homer’s dad is really discouraging to all the Rocket Boys.
- Homer’s father never came to see any of Homer’s rockets launch until the end.
- Homer has to decide whether he wants to continue high school and let his brother lose his scholarship or drop-out himself and go to the work-place he hated.
- Roy has an abusive step-father that is drunk a lot.
- There are not many people the Rocket Boys can seek to help them.
- Ike Bykovsky, who does help them, could’ve lost his job doing it.






List CONFLICTS WITH RELATIONSHIPS that Homer and others face:

- Homer and his dad: His father wants him to become like himself and work at the coal mines, while Homer wishes to study rockets and get out of the town.
- Ike Bykovsky didn’t want to help them at first, because he could get in trouble for doing so.
- His Brother seems to have everything, including a football scholarship, while Homer isn’t good at football and has his dad mad at him.
- The school is sort of against the Rocket Boys, especially after the fire incident, since the school principal believes they started it.
- Homer, at first, has a crush on Dorothy, but his brother is going out with her.
- After Homer drops out of high school, Miss Riley ignores him for a short time.
- Miss Riley is for the Rocket Boys and incourages them, which angers the school principal.
- After Homer’s dad starts going back to work, his mother tells Homer to go back to school, and she wants his father to tell him to do so also, but he doesn’t.
- Homer’s mom is always trying to work things out in the family and everything, but it seems like the dad is always being stubborn or something.
- The coal-miners go on strike for a while, because they’re “not getting what they want” from the job.
- Roy’s stepfather abuses him.
- When Homer’s dad refuses to help him, his mom threatens to leave and go to Myrtle Beach.

Visual Symbolism

- As the coal-miners come up and they realize someone could’ve gotten hurt, rain is spattering against everything and it’s all dark.
- Elsie is determined that she won’t cry if her husband is hurt, because it’d be his fault. It then shows the rain reflecting on her painting on the wall.
- The machine that brings the coal-miners up has dark clouds of steam coming from it against the rain.
- The music in comparison to the rain beating against stuff is very fitting to the emotional climax of the story.

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