What does Baseball Bat represent

Peter’s baseball bat is a symbol of his anger and his belief that his actions caused his mother to die. Just before his mother had left to go grocery shopping Peter had been angry and had used his baseball bat to break a gazing globe in the garden. It is during that grocery shopping trip that Peter’s mother was killed in a wreck. Before Peter leaves Vola’s house, Vola makes him a baseball bat and tells him that he might find it useful on his trip. Even though he was at first afraid of the bat because it symbolizes his anger, Peter does use the bat to repair his crutch after it breaks during his journey.