in jacqueline woodson’s story “when a southern town Broke A heart” the reader is introduced to a new insight on a town where her grandmother lived in also where her mother grew up.. She loved this town but it all changed one summer when she came back to visit. The central theme of the story is that sometimes as you grow up your perception changes. The story takes place in Greenville, S.C., that was her mother’s hometown that woodson once loved.she saw what was really going on with all the racism that was going on in the 1970’s.
