![]() You also see this theme in the first few pages of The Meadow when James Galvin refers to the people living on the meadow as “ghosts”, simply temporary inhabitants of the infinite life of the meadow. By doing so you would very quickly discover that this “owner” is far from human. This theme also shows up many times when the author writes, if you want to know who really owns the meadow look outside in a blizzard. It thrived with no help of it’s inhabitants and at one point Lyle even said it would have thrived more so without him or anyone else there. In fact it wasn’t claimed by either Colorado nor Wyoming. Despite all efforts to make the meadow livable, there were still summers without rain and winters 6 feet deep in snow. Of all the people that have made this place their home not one of them actually owned it or could not by any means tame the meadow. That the real owner of the meadow is the meadow itself. Upon reading The Meadow by James Galvin, I picked up on one major theme. ![]()
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