The authors message is to cherish what you have even if you don’t realize it. The author talks about breaking down and crying and one of the reasons being “because the trees are gone”. Living in Alabama only two short months even I have learned that the trees here are massive and give a breath of history and might to the ecosystem. Trees are something everyone sees every day but doesn’t quite take in the grasp of how beautiful, important, and structural they are. Losing them could be devastating but I think it helps prove the authors message that not only will life randomly affect you negatively, it will change the scope of your reality in ways you couldn’t even imagine. This idea is also supported when he talks about how his imagination fails him to not be able to comprehend the disaster of the first tornado. I feel the author is someone who holds great value on the detail of life and just wants to communicate to an audience of people who may take the details in their life for granted. I think the author helps do this by organizing his first story into fragments to show the blunt truth of a horrible thing that happened to him and his community as a child. I felt mournful reading this story just because it helped me understood the broad damage that scarred a community in several short stories.
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