It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown

This makes the 7th Charlie Brown television special, where tempered character Lucy Van Pelt drags all the boys to summer camp, wrecking everyone's ideal summer plans.

Charlie Brown seems to be the personification of suffering, giving a pessimistic tone yet a hopeful, positive, never-give up attitude that he tries to convey to the rest of the boys troop as their leader.

This short film special presents an ideal, simple and safe world in which the kids seem to be in charge, in short, it's a kids world, where in the movie, the oldest person to make a appearance, seems to be not much older and taller that the other little kids.

It's a safe kids world, yet we feel it and experience it through poor Charlie Brown's suffering.

Unlike Snoopy, who seems to have the one enjoying his time the most.

What lesson could be there to learn?

Specially for the boys, where competition is something that lots of little kids can experience in childhood, adding to the old fashioned idea that boys have to be stronger than girls, and or are supposed to be better than girls at sports.

The wisdom that someone could take from this, is that it's be that it's okey to lose, and yes even to a girl, because even in this era of more visible feminism, we should remind ourselves that yes girls can do pretty much anything a boy can, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But that Lucy can for sure cool it down a little with the trash-talk can't she?

In conclusion, it's about the innocence of the kids, the insignificance of the competition and the absurd idea that someone always has to be better than someone else.