In Ray's life, as mentioned before, baseball represented this incomprehensible bond he shared with his father - a bond that he threw away and wishes he could have recaptured. The horrors that he views enveloping the country are all too predictable in Mann's eyes, so perhaps the only thing worth giving a chance is the one thing that he can't understand.Īs Ray and Mann drive across the country and eventually arrive at the Kinsella farm, they begin to remember the importance of baseball in their own stories. At the last second however, he chooses to accompany Ray because the voice he heard was first thing in a long time that hasn't made any sense. Mann hears the voice and feels the uncanny force urging him to embark on Ray's journey that appears to have no end goal, but chooses to ignore it because it can't be real. Propelled by an urge, Ray drives out to meet Mann and take him to a Red Sox game. He doesn't write anymore because he doesn't think his books can help anyone in a world he now classifies as doomed. Terence Mann ( James Earl Jones) is a generation defining writer, a (fictional) satirist who saw success in the 1960s but has since lost the will to write due to his ever-increasing misanthropy. The two are connected through their love of the game of baseball, but more importantly find ways to use the sport to reintroduce them to a type of magic they once knew but have long forgotten. As he embarks on his journey across the country, following the magic laid out in front of him every step of the way, he meets another who could use a nudge from the intangible. What part of his future might be jeopardized, and what he might be forced to leave behind if he only chooses to do what makes sense is what he finds terrifying. It's exactly the type of chance that he used to begrudge his father for not taking, but now Ray is only scared of what might happen if he doesn't chase his own white rabbits. It's an unearthly tug, an ethereal chance that he has been handed, although he's not quite sure what the chance might lead to. But its precisely because he doesn't know why that he follows them. When Ray hears the voice in his cornfield telling him to build a baseball diamond, he follows its directions despite not knowing why.
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