The mountains are also known realistically as the golf course, but they view this location as heaven. They describe it; “Perfect. Heaven was green, like nothing else in Arizona” (21). They run around laughing and hitting each other, and their actions depict exactly how they feel. The narrator finds a “coke-holder”, which is actually just an ordinary hole on a golf course and he happily eats his packed lunch. They are so content and ecstatic that they act rich and believe that nothing can go wrong since they are in heaven. However, reality arrives in full force when two men come wanting to golf. The idea of heaven disappears and the boys feel themselves mature; “Something got taken away from us at that moment. Heaven. We grew up a little bit, and couldn’t go backward” (26). Overall, this golf course represents how growing up is unavoidable. These two boys gradually learn what growing up is like. Even though they want to hang on to their childhood, they finally realize that this desire is impossible. Their junior high experience, the arroyo, and the golf course all represent their coming of age into the unpreventable: