Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tyler also takes on a sensitive little boy named Sam. Sam embodies the innocence Otis the owner blusters to simulate. He does things like collect toads and has fantasies of flying which he communicates to Tyler through a silver airplane ring which he calls Sky-Pilot...
Camp Edgewater is of course on a lake and in it Sam sees the silvery fish he wants to touch. He's told he can't have them. Otis, who had sailed on the lake as a young man with his wife, looks at it on the Fourth of July to see the sunlight reflected and tells his counselors, "There's your fireworks. Right there...
...Little Sam seals his fate by handing his Sky-Pilot ring to Tyler as a gift. Like the guy in World War II movies who shows wallet photos of his wife to a buddy, he's finished as soon as he gives them something to remember him by. Crawling out of bed while Tyler's involved with Missy, he goes in search of the silvery fish and drowns...
EVERYONE DEALS with the death the way they have to, the camp workers trying to hide it from the kids to whom the absence of the sappy punk Sam means nothing. Nobody understands it very well; worse yet, no one can communicate what they do feel. "It's hard," says Tyler to his more weathered colleague Brad, "feeling like opera in here, like high mass, and everything coming out cartoons...
...posed some further objections about the committee's publicity and ended up by saying, "What you're really saying to me, Sam, is that I should go back to Harvard...