Answer:
The author has described the development of the justice system's understanding and treatment of juvenile offenders over time as pathetic. she opines that the understanding and treatment as unreasonable, inhumane and miserable, taking into account the evolution of the modern era and the current times of the human race
The mention of the sun rising in the unripe season tells of spring. The last stanza describes the narrator chasing the deer until noon. This then tells that it was morning when he spotted the deer under a laurel tree.