Rocket Boys Chapters 22-23
It is a tribute to Homer Hickman's prose that he can make a science fair, ordinarily a fairly dull and mundane event in the life of a high schooler, seem like an exciting and eventful thing, many times over, as the boys progress to different levels in the science fairs of that lead up to the national competition. Homer and the other rocket boys, against all odds, prove their mettle against some of the most talented competition in the state. "We made a quick audit of our competition. A Welch High School display of plant fossils found in coal mines seemed out stiffest competition. 'Just a bunch of old rocks,' said O'Dell, 'nothing to worry about'" (320). The boys look around with the keen eye of athletes against the opposing team, for they determined to be the best after years of hard work.
The boy's success at every level of the science fairs, for the reader, makes him or her feel like he or she watching an underdog sports team win a championship. The victories are clearly the pay off of much hard work and labor. The judges were "Welch courthouse politicians," men far above the class of Homer and the boys of his high school (320). In contrast to O'Dell, Homer is intimidated by the coal and the carefully labeled fossils, possibly because the love of coal runs so deep, as he is well aware, in Coalwood, and he is symbolically competing against his father's stock in trade, with his friends' and his own unique interest. The Science Fairs, to which Homer is chauffeured by his mother, in another act of fitting symbolism, as she gave him the confidence to 'launch' his dreams into the stratosphere, are Homer's proving-ground as a man. Homer's own reputation and the reputation of his teacher precede him, though, "Sounds like you boys do some...
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