Jacqueline Woodson's When A Southern Town Broke A Heart

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Have you ever realized that your home isn’t actually as perfect as you thought is was? If you have, you’ll definitely be able to relate to Jacqueline Woodson’s beautiful story: “When a Southern Town Broke a Heart”. The story centers around the idea of home and change. Throughout the story, you can watch as 9-year-old Jacqueline Woodson’s perception of her hometown, Greenville, S.C., morphs into something different. Her teaching comes across loud and clear: As you get older and learn more about the world, your view of it changes. The first hint at the theme comes right in the beginning, at which point Jaqueline states how young and idealistic she was as a child, “Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now” (pg.1).

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