High School Baseball Field

As the narrative opens, Jill is playing the last baseball game that she will be the starting pitcher as a high school student. The setting is significant because it shows Jill in a portion of her known world which is the baseball field. The setting also allows readers to see her dissatisfaction with this portion of her known world. An example of this is her mother’s behavior during the game. Her mother is reading a book which signals that she is not interested in the action.

In addition, the contrast between Jill’s behavior here and her behavior during the games she plays as a professional player highlights the meaning of her journey as a whole. Readers see how she struggles when she first enters her new world, but by the end of the narrative, finishes better than she was in this setting. The...