The 1991 movie My Girl directed by Howard Zieff is a story of two eleven year old friends? last summer together. Vada and Thomas Jay show the special relationship they have and the love that they share even through death. Vada continues to demonstrate her love for Thomas Jay and her sorrow through her own poem written shortly after his funeral. The thought of a person?s first encounter with love is usually a sweet memory. …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 635 total…spend another day at the weeping willow together like they did the summer of 1972, but Vada has grown from this experience. She is now aware of the fact that she has something that death could not take from her, which is her love and memories. First love is an experience like no other. In the movie My Girl Vada expressed her emotions through a poem she had written and touched her audience with her innocence