e a man. You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain't going to have a!
             ny blood to stick to you" (7). Sarty fears and has such despair under his father's wrath that he desperately wishes to "change him now from what maybe he couldn't help but be" (10). Little Sarty envies those that are free from his power, and expresses this when he says, "They are safe from him. People whose lives are a part of this peace and dignity are beyond his touch" (9). Sarty is kept from this "peace and dignity" simply because of his father.
             However, Sarty conquers these feelings of helplessness and inferiority in the climax of the story, when he rebels against his father and his plans to burn Major DeSpain's barn. He finally gets fed up with "the old blood which he had not been permitted t
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