"The Change of Life and Time"

"What's woman-mizry?
Hit is the change, he said. Hit is the change of life and time...

Will everything die?
Everything and everybody, hit will be so...

What was he doing down there in the storm?
The good ones and the bad ones, they comes and they goes. Storm or sun, light or dark. They is folks and they comes and they goes lak folks." Pg. 82-83

The moment, when young Seth is talking to Old Jebb by the stables and asks him a series of questions regarding all the strange things going on that day, is very important to understanding the story's meaning. There is still many things that a child does not understand at the age of nine. He has limited understanding of menopause, death, and bad people. In one day he has seen animals (the cows and chickens) die from the storm, he has seen Dellie strike Jebb with an awful slap that he does not understand, and he has witnessed the stranger coming on a blackberry winter flashing a switchblade. All these things including cold in June make no sense to nine year old Seth, and perhaps this is why he remembers this blackberry winter day so vividly. It is a change in the way he sees and understands life.

Does Seth remember this blackberry winter because it symbolizes his loss of innocence?

If blackberry winter symbolizes change, does the end of the story mean that since then he has experienced bad things or that since then he has become bad folk like the stranger?