Tone

1.     The author write about baseball with the brilliant combination of mysticism and realism attitude toward the action.

2.      In this story is the mysticism and realism story, the author want his reader to understand the miraculously of baseball game.

3.     The author used baseball as an angle of story approach. This is a smart way of doing things. Today baseball's almost-universal applicability to matters of life and family. I think the author would be number one baseball fan.

 

 

Symbolism

 

1.       The symbols in the story are about baseball and baseball fan which is represent the baseball lover. The baseball field symbolizes the man's love and his home. The old men that work in replacing the astro-turf symbolize nature, restoring the grass, "Nature temporarily defeated. But nature is patient."

2.     The lover of the baseball game are seem to have the symbolic meaning. They would do anything to relate to the game that they love.

3.     a locksmith who is the narrator of this story is the one who act as a symbols in the story, which is represent the baseball fan who really love baseball game.

4.     The story has aspect to  setting the symbolic and involve with baseball and fan club which are the symbolic of the story.

The baseball and fan club are used throughout the story, started from beginning through the end of the story.