Answer:
Sonny lose touch with all his friends from Coalwood because of his dream of working on a space craft. This tells us life is unpredictable and you will never know where you end up.
Step-by-step explanation:
Sonny's best friend Roy Lee becomes a banker, while O'Dell works in insurance and farming for the rest of his life. The remaining members (Quentin, Billy, and Sherman) all became engineers, much like Sonny.
*I've never read this book but based on information I searched up this is what I think :)