Summer is around the corner....sorry for the slacking

Well, as the days turn into summer, my mind becomes more and more absent. Personally, I cannot wait to get out of the Mitchell basement for a couple of weeks before I return for summer school! Anyway, my comments on Hamilton are as followed:
1) Why is that girl still with her baby's daddy? Was she adopted or something because it seemed as if they shared the same mama. Woody Allen syndrome I suppose. Anyway, I blame the city of Balitmore myself. Baltimore is not one of the safest cities in the US here, no matter how much they regentrify the ports. Porterfield happens to capture the decay in silence. Urban decay happens silently and drastically. Slowly the rich move out to the burbs and the ethnic minority/low income families move right on in. The family does not look the richest nor the most motivated. After all, we have a 17 year old pregnant child, a 15 year old who smokes, and some other girl with a child herself.
2) The movie's environment is something to comment on. Since everyone in the theater has been in a decaying neighborhood (Milwaukee is full of them because we are the most segregated city in the US), it was as if we could feel the humidity of the summer day, the cerulean of the pool, the sun beating down outside the church, and the sweat beading as the young lad mows the lawn. Maybe it is Dr. Barker's senses class rubbing off on me, but the whole atmosphere of walking in the woods, but the nostaglia and childhood feelings arouse sense memory. The creek and the woods, as an example, environment reminds the viewer of the childhood innnocence these children should have, even though one has a child and the other is smoking. Lots of contradictions on how these children should be children, but they are acting like adults.