Peter Richardson
10/08/08
Eng. 101
8:15-9:05



The definition of youth is “the appearance, freshness, vigor, and characteristics of one who is young”. This picture represents youth in its entirety. When you’re young, nothing in life gets better than standing on the field victorious. Looking at this picture for the first time it represents youth, happiness, and excitement.
The picture consists of young males which seem to be celebrating after a sporting event. It seems this way because three of them are in uniform, two have face paint on and the other two are just there celebrating too. Also one of the other kids in the image looks like he has an opposing team basketball sweatshirt on. However they seem to be joking with him and putting one of the baseball hats on his head.
There are a few reasons that lead me to believe that this was a baseball game. One of the reasons is that the three boys that are in uniform. Also the uniforms that they were wearing are dirty. So they may have slid or dove for a ball during the game. Another reason is that the background to the picture is dark, so it could mean that it was night time. If it was night time and they are still outside in short sleeve shirts, then it would have to be nice weather like spring, baseball season.
Another thing that I notice looking at this picture is the cars that are in the background. The cars in the picture are located on the bottom right side of the picture. They are out of focus but you can still tell what they are and it makes it easier to tell what they are because of the license plate glowing from the flash. Above the two cars there is a bright light. The bright light seems to be a streetlight. Those are two good reasons that make me think that they are outside at night in the parking lot. The biggest thing that leads me to believe is that other than those two things in the background everything is dark like the night sky.
There are a few reasons why I think they are celebrating. One of the reasons that I think they are celebrating is that they are all crowded around each other, laughing and smiling. One of them has face paint on with his hand raised high in the air. The others all have their arms around each other, and one of the baseball players is on the back of one of his friends. Also if they would let someone from the apposing team, take a picture with them, because if they lost and were not celebrating I don’t think they would want someone to take a picture with them from the team that just beat them.
To someone just looking at this picture that was not there it shows friendship. It shows friendship because there all together laughing holding each other and just having fun with each other. I also don’t think that they would allow someone with the opposing teams sweat shirt be with them, or hang out with them if there wasn’t a great deal of friendship going on between them. Another example of friendship in this picture is for two kids to paint their faces and put the numbers of their friend’s faces to show the friendships. In conclusion, that picture represents the definition of youth.