October Sky Chapter 8
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Transcript of October Sky Chapter 8
October Sky Chapter 8
By: Lauren Wagner
Jesus Cervantes
Dr. Von Braun launched
another thirty pound Explorer
into space on March 26
Big Creek High School had been
placed on a football
suspension for the 1958 season according to Mr.
Trune
Mr. Turner announced that
because of Sputnik, and the
worry of bad education, all of
our classes would be harder
After Mr. Turner read a short poem,
called Invictus, all the students started to leave. While leaving Sonny noticed that Dorothy
was sobbing and he wanted to comfort her.
Buck a football player would not be able to get a
football scholarship
because of the suspension. He
would have to go down to the coal mines. Though he did not want to, he wanted to
go to college.
After the bell rang Sonny noticed that Dorothy was
still sobbing and that she went straight out of class to Vernon
Holbrook, a senior
linebacker.
Homer told Jim that he will go to
college and he would pay for it.
Jim then goes on to say that he
wanted to play college football,
and that the college teams
would now never notice him. He also
blamed it all on Homer.
Sonny asked Mr. Ferro for some tin. Mr. Ferro
said that he had some this
morning and that he would have to trade
something for it. Sonny didn’t
have anything to trade though.
Reverend Richard had the
tin from Mr. Ferro for shingles. Reverend
Richard said that if he had
shingles he wouldn’t have to
us the tin ,but Emmett Jones
does.
Sonny Was now starting to learn
how too trade Coalwood style
which would most likely
benefit him in the long run.
Emmett Jones had plenty of
shingles but the only way Sonny
could have them was if he got planting dirt from Big Branch , to
make Emmett Jones flowers
glorious.
After they got the shingles
from Emmett Jones and then
traded the shingles for the
tin from Reverend
Richard they drew a plan for
their blockhouse on scrap paper.
After spending a whole day on the blockhouse, Sonnies mom
said that Quentin was
too tired to go home so she made Sonny sleep on the couch and
Quentin sleep in Sonnies bed.
Sonnies enthusiasum
took Homer off guard. Homer said don’t geet out of contro
now.
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“Mr. Turner’s poem
turned out to be
Invictus. As he
read, all of us,
even Roy Lee,
were absorbed
by it. Mr. Turner
concluded: “It
matters not how
strait the gate,
how charged
with punishments the
scroll, I am the
master of my
fate: I am the
captain of my
soul.’”
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“Just remember
your promise.
No sight or
sound of any
rockets in
Coalwood.”