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Literary Response 2 #5 I find the most disterbing thing about Coalwood is that it is runnign out of coal. I find this most disturbing because when it finally does runout of coal all of those families wont have an income. So even though the men work hard all day; they eventually wont be able to support there family as they had. Which was barely enough to get by. This reveals that I believe anyone who wants to work should have a job. Some people today do not even want a job, instead the siphon off the governments money on unemployment. Where others who want a job are unable to find and available job. So how will he or she support their family? The fact that people who want jobs but cant get them and go hungry upsets me. These values are different from my classmates because some of them are in school because it is required of them. Not nessisarily in this particular class but in my other classes. However I am here to learn. I see people who throw away there education; and, in October Sky Homer and his friends are trying to get the most out of there education. While others in there school are there to fool around. The main character, Homer, also finds it disturbing that the coal is running out, because his families whole life depends on his fathers job as a miner. If there was no more coal for Homers father to dig, then there would be no Coalwood. The communities homes, jobs, and the school would have to close because the kids would have to move away to get jobs too.