Outside Reading Post #3

One of the themes is see prevailing in this book is not only the important human characteristic of never giving up (as demostrated by the books title), but that hard work may at some times be a bad thing. It seems to me, as I stated in my last post, that Gene's wife is simply sick and tired of him never being home and would enjoy his increased company. However, Mr. Kranz's excrutiatingly hard work has left him stuck at Cape Cavnaveral until further notice. There is simply not enough time in the week, the month, of even the year to take an 'unnecessary' break and visit his family. I sense that this will be a major conflict later on in the book when the Space Race really takes off and the Americans set a goal of being the first to put a man on the moon.