“Endless Summer” Rhetorical Analysis In the short story, “Endless Summer” by Rick Bragg he explains how the season of summer, favored by children, is “truncated” by those who “do not know how sweet it is to feel the mud mush between their toes”. In Calhoun County, Alabama the boy in the story is said to be wasting time playing in the mud but the way he sees it kids now are the ones wasting their summers away. Kids now already are deprived of their whole summer by having to start school in August, but they are engulfed with their television and phone screens making time waste away. This “magnificent mud hole” was the most paramount part of this boy’s August days. He had spent countless hours just playing there and to make those who read the
