Question #14
What does the ball symbolize in "Iron Hands"?
Stanza
Take a boy on a bridge.
One hundred feet up. About to jump,
thinking: This is my last ball game.
This time it's a home run.
Wanting the good crack of the bat.
Wanting to throw his body away
like a corn cob.
And you'll move off.
I think that the ball symbolizes that the boy is going to do the last thing in his life and it will be definite because he might die and the homerun would be the consequence of it.
Good work, Jessica! Pay attention to the prince/boy in the story itself as well. The ball rolls into Iron Hans's cage, and Iron Hans basically blackmails the boy into letting him out ("if you want your ball back, you'll have to open the cage..."). What does this ball symbolize?
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