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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Paul Eugenio on Rocket Boys

Rocket Boys was a fantastic book about how a group of boys in a small mining town, worked hard in order to free themselves from their pre- determined lives of a coal miner. The book had much more background than the movie and allowed for the each character to be unique; however, the movie, like many movies based on books, took away from this, making them just a bunch of persistent kids who quickly developed better and better rocket designs. I feel that If I would not have read the book, I would never understand each and every one of the characters in the movie. It also seemed that the movie added events that never happened, such as Sonny working in the coal mine, and took away from important background details, like him an his brothers constant fighting and hindering each other. All and All- Good Book, True Story
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