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. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Meadow. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. By doing so you would very quickly discover that this “owner” is far from human. The Meadow - Kindle edition by Galvin, James. 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. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. In fact it wasn’t claimed by either Colorado nor Wyoming. Only one of them succeeded in making a life here. 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. An American Library Association Notable Book In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a. Galvin includes death regularly to show that it is natural and inevitable that people are just passing through, whereas wilderness lasts forever. Death is a recurring theme in The Meadow. Upon reading The Meadow by James Galvin, I picked up on one major theme. Buy a cheap copy of The Meadow book by James Galvin. Writing Exercise The Meadow James Galvin. The Meadow evokes a sense of place that can be achieved only by someone who knows it intimately.