This is a story that happened in a small town called Merlin in West Virginia. Meilin is a town rich in coal mines. As the saying goes, the mountain is supported by mountains and the town is relatively closed. Naturally, most of the people in the town will make a living from coal mines. The men in the town work in the mine, and they all know each other. Among them, the old homer is the person in charge of the mine in the town. He leads the people in the town to work diligently in the mine. Also very proud. And his other role is the father of the little homer. For the role of father, he certainly hopes that the career he is proud to have dedicated his life to can be inherited by the little homer. However, the fact was not as he expected. The moment the little homer saw the Soviet Union's Mate in the night sky amazingly crossed, all this has begun to change quietly.
His uncle saw little homer's dedication and love for the rocket, and was willing to take the risk to help little homer to weld the bottom gasket of the rocket. After the welding was completed, the little homer and his friends undoubtedly held great hope and enthusiasm when they first went to test the rocket. The rocket flew to the mine and almost hurt someone. When the old homer found out, he scolded the young homer in front of many workers for being a "troublemaker". If homer's enthusiasm can be quantified, it can reach 100% before the test flight, and half of his father's words can be extinguished at this time! After that, they continued to try and finally launched in a test flight, which made them more confident in the future, and the confidence could be restored to 70%. On homer's birthday, I received a letter of encouragement and an autographed photo from von Braun. It was like a junior high school student doing a physics problem in the classroom. Suddenly Einstein walked in and said, "Well done, keep going." Just as exciting, there is no doubt that this time is bursting with self-confidence. But things don't always go as well as expected, and they are taken away for interrogation by the police, who suspect their negligence has sparked a forest fire. When the old homer came to bring the young homer home and said it had shamed him, the incident completely destroyed their enthusiasm, and they went to burn the pavilion used for the experiment. The pavilion is a symbol of their confidence. What the raging fire burns is not only a pavilion, but also their initial dedication and love for making rockets.
If doing things is no longer interesting, then doing everything is the same, of course the old homer will take his son to be a coal miner, and that is exactly the case. When the little homer went down and looked up at the sky with the elevator in the mine, his face told us that he was unwilling but could not do anything and didn't know how to resist. Seeing that his son could work with him in the well, the old homer smiled so happily in front of his son for the first time. The old homer has stayed in this small town since he was a child, maybe even his whole life. He has worked in his coal mine for so long. For him, it is the coal mine job that runs his family. This is the right job, and the coal mine is all he has. That's why he was so stubborn about his son's making rockets, and even took little care of his own family. The little homer has never seen the really wonderful and beautiful world outside. He doesn't know what the outside looks like, but he is young and curious. There is a seed to explore in his heart. This seed has been suppressed by his father. Maybe one day it will be activated and start to grow, and maybe it will never take root and sprout.
On the way of the growth of the little homer and his friends, their teacher Riley has always given them confidence and encouragement and helped them to smooth things out. After learning that Mr. Riley was seriously ill, when the little homer went to see her, the words of Mr. Riley and him rekindled the little homer's passion. "You have to learn to listen to your own heart, and you should have greater goals," says Riley. Little homer needs someone who can give him enough confidence to guide him. Undoubtedly, Mr. Riley is such a person. She understands that this small town is undergoing an infinite cycle of inheriting the father's business. She knows the hard work of coal miners and the harm of this profession. When he sees the open mind of the little homer, she is reluctant to let go. She knew that once she let go, what awaited their young people would be the black hole in the coal mine that eats away passion and vitality. Even if there was a lot of resistance ahead, she was still willing to do her best to send her children out of this small place. The little homer will eventually grow up to be a homer, he knows what kind of life he wants to live, the old homer he rejected is going to the coal mine, and he is going to rekindle his burned dream.
You are my hero
I won the whole world, but I can't win your heart
As helpless as this sentence says, homer has won the whole world, but still can't get a word of approval from his father. Homer went to the coal mine to find his father after homer won the big prize and got college admissions and scholarships, something he'd wanted to say for a long time. The old homer is stubborn and wants to let homer come to the mine to do the same job as himself, and homer is also stubborn to be his own rocket, thinking of each other and insisting on their own. When quantifying the effect of enthusiasm on homer, my own words to his father gave him a 50% estimate of how hard it was to hit him, and a 3% recovery in his confidence from receiving a letter of encouragement from von Braun The estimate of ten, now it seems that the qualitative analysis is correct. I was moved to tears watching this episode, just like homer said "it's cause i'm the same. you know, i can be just as hardheaded and just as tough", it is precisely because each of us has our own It is only with stubborn and unyielding belief that we can do our best to be excellent in the things we love.
After homer and his father said that, the mother went to the old homer to watch the son's rocket together, this time the old homer finally stopped being stubborn. He came to watch the lift-off of his son's last rocket. This rocket was dedicated to Mr. Riley. After the rocket took off, the old homer hugged homer slowly. Although his son failed to follow his arrangement, he saw I am very pleased that my son has enough ability!
Reminds me of the line "it's all begin with someone lost and someone found, who is to say which was which?" in the British animated short "lost and found". The workers who have experienced the cookie-cutter work in the coal mine and the surrounding classmates who sneered at each other, joined hands together. The hardworking partners, the encouraging teacher Riley, the stubborn old homer and the young homer who wants to explore, who is being ridiculed and who is being encouraged?
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