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Education From Influence Have you ever had an unending drive to learn and succeed, yet certain influences continually prevent such achievement? This is the case for Homer Hickam and his fellow “rocket boys” within the film October Sky. However, they did finally succeed by persevering to build their rocket and win the National Science Fair. Many encouragements and discouragements provide education for the boys. They each learn something with each new experience while researching, studying, and building their rockets. The different encouragements, or lack there of, affect how the rocket boys achieve their goal of rocket building. One of the greatest impacts on a person’s drive to achieve is their family and the various practices of each member. For instance, Homer’s father strongly disapproves of Homer’s rocket building. Since Homer’s father is the manager of the town coal mine, he believes that carrying on his work has more importance in the world than rocket building. As a result, Homer and his father’s beliefs always collide as to what Homer should do with his life. In a figurative tug-of-war, Homer desires to pursue his rockets and to win a scholarship to a college, but his father continually arg