"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner
In William Faulkner's story, "Barn Burning", the protagonist is a young boy who struggles with the relationship he has with his father and his own conscience. Sarty is a young man, developing into an adult while dealing with the many crude actions and ways of Abner, his father. Furthermore this essay describes Sarty's father's dark character, Sarty's family life, and his desire to break away from the oppressive conditions of his family lifeThe theme of Faulkner's "Barn Burning" is Sarty Snopes's desire to break away from his family and his tyrannical father. The narrator describes Sarty's father, Abner as such: "There was something about his wolf-like independence and even courage when the advantage was at least neutral which impressed strangers, as if they got his latent ravening ferocity not so much a sense of dependability as a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with his" (25). Abner can be best describ
I could run on and never look back, never need to see his face again" (89). Even though slavery wasn't a case here, they had to live by share cropping. To sum up, Sarty had a choice between family and morality, and Sarty decided to choose morality because he was tired of his father and his misdeeds. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain't going to have any blood to stick to you" (29). He is violent towards his son and towards anyone who questions him or his authority. Sarty and his sisters disliked moving because they moved so many times that they were sickened by it. Unlike his father who wants to hurt people who question him, Sarty doesn't want to live the way his father does. Abner probably thought it was the only way to be. Furthermore, Sarty's family life was no darker than his father's personality. Sarty loved his family but his feelings changed as he gained more understanding and maturity. This choice ended up being the cause of his father's death. Abner tells Sarty that "You're getting to be a man.
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