Soccer

Soccer is the activity that binds the members of the team together. As such, it represents and evokes the power of focus and a shared goal, and is a fundamental component of the book's thematic consideration of the value of teamwork.

The Whistle

Throughout the play, the sound of the whistle calling the players to stop the warmup and start the game is a metaphoric representation of the border, or the transition, between childhood and young adulthood. As such, it is a fundamental symbolic component of the play's thematic focus on coming of age.

2’s Scarves

The scarves made by 2 as part of a fundraising effort to help imprisoned migrant children represent her effort to feel and/or be connected to the world around her. In other words, they represent her first tentative steps outside the "bubble" of "American exceptionalism" (9) that the author says, in her...