Barn Burning
Submitted by wcbchad on November 20, 2008
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“Barn Burning”
“Barn Burning” was written during the great depression about a nomadic family, the Snopes. The Snopes family was always being forced to move due to the unlawful actions of Abner Snopes, the father of the family. Abner burned down two of his landlord’s barns along with ruining one of their rugs with horse droppings. The story begins in the Justice of the Peace’s Court where Abner is on trial for the burning of Mr. Harris’s barn. The court could not find any proof that Abner did it, but still tells him to move out of the country and never come back. The story’s theme is focused on the despair and grief that the youngest son, Sarty, is going through. In William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” Faulkner illustrates how a young boy named Sarty goes from the “Paranoid way of life” like his father to the “Apollonian way of life” (Wilson...