Question

Which excerpt from “How I Learned English” uses the first-person point of view to show that the main character feels out of place in his new environment?

It was in an empty lot
Ringed by elms and fir and honeysuckle.
Bill Corson was pitching in his buckskin jacket,
Unnatural and without any moves,
My notions of baseball and America
Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed
I watched it closing in
Clean and untouched, transfixed
By its easy arc before it hit
There was a wild stamping of hands on the ground,
A kicking of feet, and the fit
Of laughter overtook me too,

Answer 1

The lines
"My notions of baseball and America
Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed"

use first‑person ("my") and directly show the speaker's confusion and alienation—his unfamiliarity with baseball stands for feeling out of place in his new environment.