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Rocket Boys October Sky Essay

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One’s parents may forever ponder upon this question. Everyone grows up differently, in a different atmosphere, state, country, and routine. Someone may have had a harsh life because of where they were raised, while others might not have had to worry at all. In the novel Rocket Boys/ October Sky the narrator grows up in a mine setting. He is used to the loud hums of the men working and the sudden absence of his father. While the narrator is going by his daily routine of listening to the men go into the tipple, the deaths, weather, and everything else the readers are learning as many life lessons as he does. Throughout the book he learns not to take things for granted, but to also have hope and that if you believe in something, pursue it or

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