Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam

Lately, I have been reading Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam, Jr. or more commonly known as October Sky. As I began to read the book, I kept pondering how the insightful memoir about Homer's fascinating life would be different than the movie. As I started to read the memoir, there were some things that were clearly different than the movie, but many things that were the same. In the beginning of the book there is some small things such as Homer Jr. has dogs, and a pet squirrel. I also noticed that Homer seems to talk more about his time at school and his ever growing love for Dorothy. Also, the talk about the popularity of the Football team and the team not being able to play for the championship. These are just a few things I have noticed, please feel free to comment back if you have noticed anything else through out the rest of the book that was similar or different.