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"The earth spun (...)"  "June and the earth full of raw power
and everything everywhere in motion." The motif of the motion of the Earth supports the theme because it contrasts the vast scale of the planet with the fact that Douglas can be happy with so little things, like tennis shoes.

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"It was because they felt the way it feels every summer when you take off your shoes for the first time and run in the grass. "(pdf 11, book 26)
This quote shows how Douglass feels about the tennis shoes, and this quote is also a reaction to his father asking why he needs the shoes, and Doug gets quite defensive about the shoes.

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“Dad,” said Douglas, “it’s hard to explain.” This quote supports the theme because it shows how Douglas doesn't actually know exactly why he wants the shoes - he only knows that he does.

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"Bang! I deliver your packages, (...) There they go!" - Douglas is very excited to do all kinds of things, even favors, as long as he gets the shoes of his dreams. This supports the message that things as little as tennis shoes, can make you very happy, and motivated.

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“Bang! I deliver your packages, pick up packages, bring you coffee, bum your trash, run to the post office, telegraph office, library! You’ll see twelve of me in and out, in and out, every minute. Feel those shoes, Mr. Sanderson, feel how fast they’d take me? All those springs inside? Feel all the running inside? Feel how they kind of grab hold and can’t let you alone and don’t like you just standing there? Feel how quick I’d be doing the things you’d rather not bother with? You stay in the nice cool store while I’m jumping all around town! But it’s not me really, it’s the shoes. They’re going like mad down alleys, cutting corners, and back! There they go!” (P.12 PDF) This quote shows that Douglas is very passionate and hyped to do the work for Mr. Sanderson.

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"For last year's pair were dead inside. They had been fine when he started them out, last year. But by the end of summer, every year, you always found out, you always knew, you couldn't really jump over rivers and trees and houses in them, and they were dead. But this was a new year, and he felt that this time, with this new pair of shoes, he could do anything, anything at all." This long quote shows how Douglas was listing several activities he had done and wanted to do with his shoes, making his want more prominent. He really wants those shoes and want anything in his power to get them, at least before the summer ended. He felt with new shoes he would be able to do "anything, anything at all".

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"Feel those shoes, Mr Sanderson, feel how fast they'd take me? All those springs inside? Feel all the running inside?" Douglas knows the happiness he feels by putting on the tennis shoes and he shows that feeling to Mr Sanderson.

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"Whatever it was, it
was in the shoes, and it was summer." The symbol of the shoes being summer supports the theme of happiness because it shows how such an insignificant object as tennis shoes can encompass a whole season, and therefore, bring joy to the one wearing them.

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“Yes,” said Father, “but what’s wrong with last year’s sneakers? Why can’t you dig them out of the closet?” (pdf 11, book 26) The contrast here is that Doug's Father reminds Doug about his last year shoes, and that those are good, but Doug has many good memories with them, but thus, it means that they feel old to him, not like his new shoes.

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"They boy looked down at his feet deep in the rivers, in the fields of wheat, in the wind that already was rushing him out of town. He looked up at the old man, his eye burning, his mouth moving, but no sound came out." - Douglas just put on his dream tennis shoes, and he feels some kind of power inside of them. When asked about his feelings, he is speechless.

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"Still the man and boy stood there, the boy glowing, the man with
revelation in his face." The contrast between the old man and the young boy shows how even if they are of different ages, they can still revive their love for simple tennis shoes, which can bring both of them happiness.

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"How do they feel?" asked the boy. This dialogue was when the old man put on the tennis shoes he was selling. This quote supports the theme because Douglas was very excited about getting the shoes.

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"It was because they felt the way it feels every summer when you take off your shoes for the first time and run in the grass." (26) In this quote Douglas talks about how he feels when putting on a new pair of tennis shoes and how good they feel to be running in. This was also kind of part of a dialogue and his reaction to his father asking why he needed new shoes.

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"From a long time
ago, when he dreamed as a boy, he remembered the sound." The encounter with Douglas reminds Mr. Sanderson of the fact that he was also once a young boy with the same energy as Douglas now has.

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I think the symbol in this chapter are the tennis shoes. That is because maybe to us, such a simple and maybe even boring thing as tennis shoes, doesn't mean anything, but to Douglas the shoes brought a lot of joy and almost made the whole season of summer better.

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"It was because they felt the way it feels every summer when you take off your shoes for the first time and run in the grass." (26). In this quote the author explains that there is this happiness feeling when you run in the grass after you take off your shoes and Douglas was very excited to do that.

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"Douglas Spaulding stood clumsily there, staring down at his leather shoes as if these heavy things could not be pulled up out of the cement." In this quote we can see Douglas losing himself in the moment, he enjoys the shoes and basically freezes.