The Children In The Sandlot Analysis

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The children in the Sandlot, directed by David Evans accurately demonstrated the characteristics of early childhood, throughout the boys’ adventures. The movie is about a young boy named Scottie Smalls. Smalls moved into a new neighbourhood, managed to make some friends with a group of boys named Ham,Timmy, Tommy, Benny, Scotty, Squints, Burtrum, and Kenny who all play baseball in the sandlot. The boys all enjoy baseball and look up to both Benny, the leader of the group and Babe ruth a famous baseball player. The group of friends run into some trouble when they lose a ball “borrowed” from smalls dad resulting in them having to work as a team to design a plan to retrieve the missing ball. Together they face and overcome obstacles, by working

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