The themes for the short story "That Could Have Been You" are danger and fearlessness.
The story depicts all the different ways that proves being on the farm could be dangerous to the boys. The story remains vague, however, about who the boys are and what farm it is they are supposed to be on.
We only know that there are boys who are on a farm, and the potential dangers they face just by being on it. These dangers are:
- Getting injured by hailstones,
- Getting injured by an animal,
- Getting crushed by a collapsed building or caught in a tornado
However, despite knowing the dangers are real, several narrow escapes the boys had from serious danger, and even suffering rather bad injuries, the boys remain fearless about it all.
They know they could be the ones missing fingers, or an arm, or they could be the ones getting impaled by falling icicles, but the promise of new days ahead and the potential adventures they could have in them makes them fearless about all the dangers that they know exist on the farm.
Therefore, the short story centres around the themes of danger and fearlessness a group of boys experience by being on the farm.
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