Have you felt that your home was a beautiful and safe but then you started to realize that it was a beautiful heartbreaking and complicated place ? Well that’s how Jacqueline Woodson felt. As we grow and change, so do our perspectives on a variety of things that we experience in life. The central theme in the story When A Southern Town Broke A Heart by Jacqueline Woodson is that as you get older the way you see the world changes.
One way that Jacqueline Woodson ties to the theme is when she notices her town in a different perspective and home is more complicated than what she thought. For example, she says,”But the summer I was 9 years old, the town I had always loved morphed into a beautifully heartbreaking, and complicated place” { pg.
One way that Jacqueline Woodson ties to the theme is when she notices her town in a different perspective and home is more complicated than what she thought. For example, she says,”But the summer I was 9 years old, the town I had always loved morphed into a beautifully heartbreaking, and complicated place” { pg.