San Quentin's Giants Analysis

Baseball is a game played with a bat and a ball between two teams of nine players, each on a large field having four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score. It requires teamwork and communication. Subsequent to watching the short documentary, San Quentin’s Giants, I showed some of my neighbors the short film and asked them what they thought the overall message was. Most of them said that they thought the factual program was about how convicts at San Quentin State Prison got permission to play baseball because they were getting bored with the activities available. They also thought that the feature was about how baseball was allowed at San Quentin State Prison to encourage the convicts to be kind to each other and stay out of trouble. To me, the story is much more than that. I think that the short documentary, San Quentin’s Giants, is about how a group of people with diverse backgrounds came together and had fun as a community, even though they were in a strict environment.

About two minutes into short film, evidence already begins to appear. For example, at two minutes and twenty-three seconds, a man in plain clothes says, “While you’re in prison, it’s very difficult to find things to be proud of.” By playing baseball, he …show more content…
If you look at the various definitions of family in the dictionary, one states that a family is a group of people united in criminal activity. Another states that a family is a group of individuals living under one roof. Although both are true in this case, the San Quentin’s Giants family is much deeper. All of their activities, eating, drinking, sleeping, playing baseball, take place in the same building. They see each other every