Note 2&3

Clip from The Sandlot

        This stunning and patriotic scene from the Sandlot utilizes colorful fireworks and the soothing voice of Ray Charles to express the beauty in a warm summer night in the beggining of July.  As the summer sky turns dark and the fireworks begin the boys of the neighborhood assemble at the baseball field, as if the field was a large magnet pulling the boys towards it.  As the boys play their game they can not help but stare off into the sky as the fireworks continually explode into beautiful colors above their heads.  The selection of red, white and blue fireworks and Ray Charles singing America the Beautiful in the background promotes a very stong sense of patriotism.  The expressions on the boy's faces as they gaze at the fireworks truly embodies the feelings felt on a beautiful summer night.

Poem by Liam Rector Soon the City 

       Liam Rector's direct and matter of fact diction perhaps portrays his feelings towards the boringness and tortures of summer.  Rector opens with a lamnet thought over the loss of spring," Now the pleasant purgatory Of spring is over."  His feelings towards the heat of summer are not very cheerful and he repeats the word humidity many times.  Because of the heat, Rector believes there is nothing to do during summer "And in the avenues Wander restlessly To and fro." Rector's straightforwardness displays his unwelcoming feelings toward summer.