Blackberry Winter | Themes
Warren's chief theme in this story is that of boyhood initiation into the experience of life's mutability and uncertainty, as well as his discovery—an experience he can barely understand—of the constant threat of change and death which hovers over the human condition. Throughout the story, Warren emphasizes the narrator's discovery of changes in his existence, from the drowned chicks, the flooded creek, and the death of the cow, to Dellie's strange sickness, which Big Jebb explains to the uncomprehending boy as "the change of life and time . . ."
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