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Second Chances In The Film Field Of Dreams
Field of Dreams is a movie about second chances. With Ray, building the baseball field in his backyard it is Ray's second chance to have a relationship with his father who, is dead and while alive did not have a good relationship with his son. It is Terrance Mann's second chance to go see a ball game at Fenway Park. Shoeless Joe's and the other Chicago White Sox who were kicked out of the game, it is their second chance to play baseball again. Moonlight Graham's second chance to get a major league at bat. In the movie, Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying, "if you build it he will come." This gives Ray the idea of cutting down his crops to build a baseball field so that shoeless Joe Jackson will come and play. After months of waiting, Joe shows
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