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October Sky

October Sky had many ups and downs and change of emotions all throughout the many scenes of the movie. In the beginning Homer and his father didn’t see things the same way and arguing made tension between the two worse. By the end Homer realized that he and his father weren’t different at all, they were the same.
Conflict perspective is where everybody is competing to achieve their goals and achieve high standards. The part of October Sky that relates to this word is when Homer is convinced that the mine is not for him, so he set a goal for himself. Homer wanted to go into space. Building rockets was just a start.
Symbolic interactionism is people that refer to themselves by what they do, how they act, and what they wear. Quintin is basically a dork in the movie, not one person sat next to him at lunch. In his mind it was set that he was this way and nobody could change it. He was called “weird” more than once in the movie and he knew and accepted that. Homer knew Q...

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