The Sandlot Archetype

In The Sandlot: Heading Home, the storyteller uses the character archetype, a mentor, to reveal how we as humans look back on former times because our decisions, good and bad, allows us to reflect on our past and learn from it. In other words, we want the mentors to leave a mark on us, make us remember what they did, and make us push through the past and into the future and how their messages, actions, or memories continue to shape us into our impending selves. Without memories, you could not push forward, you would just do the only thing your instincts would tell you, if you had memories you could learn from your mistakes and make sure you would not do the same thing again. At first, Tommy's mother shows love to him through
Ryan was a mute and communicates with facial expressions and hand movements and has not spoken a word in four years after his father died. Ryan always kept Tommy in the right direction, because he was the only one that Tommy told about his mother, and what he had to do to see her like he used to. “Hey, why did you do that?” he asked surprised. “You play with us, teach us all this great stuff about baseball… being a team, playing together. Now you're going to up and leave us?” Ryan asked “But I have to.” Tommy says “You don't have to do nothing. You're a crock, man. We looked up to you. You made us feel for the game, and it showed. I thought we were showing you something too.” Ryan said with hope “Yeah? What's that?” he said with an attitude “Friendship, dummy.” Ryan says looking right into Tommy’s eyes. Ryan even came out of his shell because he did not want Tommy to do something he would regret. Ryan believed that Tommy could change his future if he did the tasks he loved and adored. Ryan’s friendship and his teaching of important skills towards Tommy made him the second most memorable mentor to Tommy because he spent most of his time with him and his mother, and that's what really left a mark on