Teenage Wasteland

The basketball in the end of the story is a representation of the relationship of Donny and his parents. The basketball is how their relationship was good to bad to good again n then to really bad. When Donny was younger his parents paid attention to him and paid attention to him. As his teenage years came around Donny was doing bad in school his parents did not trust him. Once Cal came around his parents trusted Donny to be out with his friends and Cal. Their relationship was a little better. Then in the end Donny leaves so that is when the basketball hits the pile of leafs representing his absence.

-Mariana Diaz :D