https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp Made with magic en-us 2019-03-20 21:04:11 UTC 2019-03-28 17:52:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png robertasplund22 https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp/wish/343550750 My parents do not care if I follow their footsteps in terms of career. They would like me to go to college and enjoy whatever job I do but don’t want me doing what they do unless by my choice. Parents that put pressure on their kids to follow their footsteps sometimes do this because of love and other to finish a dream that they themselves could not accomplish. Professional athletes normally raise their kids up playing the same sport and wish them to be better than themselves but no one can truly know their intent. Overall I think wanting your kid to do what you do involving pressure is wrong.

Major role models in my life include Tim Tebow, Lebron James, Jeremy Lin, and my friends Timmy and Keaton. They all have different influences from Tim Tebow focusing on his affect others instead of just the game. Lebron on the other hand helps out the community he grew up in while still doing whatever is needed to win on the court. Jeremy Lin broke the barrier for Asian American basketball players to make the NBA all starting from Palo Alto High School. Timmy has an incredible amount of knowledge for his age and is a truly caring person. Finally Keaton is the most loving and charismatic person you will ever meet. All these people have different attributes but all their qualities I hope to gain.]]> 2019-03-20 21:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp/wish/343550750 robertasplund22 https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp/wish/344311544 “ I didn’t care to read about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The hero I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them” (11 Hickman Jr.). Sonny was very unlike other kids from the fact he did not enjoy the superhuman stories but instead real life stories. Most kids at a young age let their imagination set free wanting to grow up with super powers and playing with action figures. Sonny instead was interested in knowledge and showing courage to those who opposed him. From this point in the book it is obvious Sonny was going to be a special kid being somewhat a realist at the young age he was. The character development shows how he was interested in facts and real things at such a young age just steps closer to how he built a rocket.

"It was an important moment and we knew it. We boys in Coalwood were joining the space race” (34 Hickman Jr.). Sonny is only 11 talking with his friends about making a rocket. Some kids at young ages tell all their friends they are going to astronauts and go to space one day, but these boys were going to join the race to space. They were determined to truly launch a rocket to space and beat the Russians after the first two Sputnik launches. Sonny goes from enjoying people who are full of knowledge to becoming one in a matter of months. The character develops quick and in major ways as he is going to attempt getting a rocket to space.]]> 2019-03-22 17:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp/wish/344311544 robertasplund22 https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp/wish/346274225  Sonny’s relationships with his family weren’t all so great, especially with his dad as he fought with his mother constantly and did not care about what Sonny was doing. After a fight between Homer and Elsie, Homer left they house disgruntled, “Sometimes when he did that, I wondered if he wasn’t just sitting around his office, checking his watch, until Mom went to bed” (Hickam Jr. 53). Sonny believed his father was trying to avoid his mom every time he went to his office at night. The relationship between Homer and Sonny is broken already while seeing your father avoiding your mother at every chance also doesn’t sit right with Sonny. Another example of the unhealthy relationship they had was his dad stating, “‘He doesn’t know what he wants to be,’ ... ‘ But I know what he is’ ... He’s a thief’” (Hickam Jr. 94). Homer told his workers infringe of Sonny that his son doesn’t know what he wants to be all because he believes this is just a childish way of thinking. His father doesn’t believe in his dreams, while his Mom is the only support from home he has. Homer even called his son a thief and exposed him for stealing materials for his rocket to his employees. Overall, Sonny does not have a good relationship with his family. ]]> 2019-03-28 17:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/robertasplund22/soan9czzwvpp/wish/346274225