Importance of The Rocket

The rocket ship from "The Rocket Night" symbolizes social isolation. While the story is quite short, this allegory says a lot about the social aspects of society. Children place unwanted peers into a rocket ship in total isolation. These children disappear and are forgotten about. In the real world, socially unaccepted children are placed in social isolation. Their peers ignore them and do not care for them, much like the uncared for children wind up in a rocket ship in outer space. The proximity of the unwanted child's body does not matter because socially ousted individuals are shoved away so far that they might as well be in a rocket ship.