Barn Burning Essay -- essays research papers

Barn Burning "Youre getting to be a man. You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you aint going to have any blood to stick to you." This quote from William Faulkners "Barn Burning" does reveal a central issue in the story, as Jane Hiles suggests in her interpretation. The story is about blood ties, but more specifically, how these ties affect Sarty (the central character of the story). The story examines the internal conflict and dilemma that Sarty faces. When the story begins, Sarty and his family argon in a courtroom. Sarty, known in a proper setting as Colonel Sartoris, which in itself gives an insight into the families mentality. Sartys father, Abner Snopes is being accused of a barn burning. Right a government agency, as Sarty is called to testify, you get an idea of what is going through the boys head, and the mentality that has be ingrained in him. He thinks to himself, foe Enemy, referring to the people that his father and his famil y for that matter are up against. Sarty would later discover that things are not always the way that his father leads everyone to believe they are. Sarty, somewhere cryptical down wants to just do what is right, but being roughly 10 years old, I dont think he quite has that pass judgment out yet. His sense of right and wrong has been biased under the tyranny of his father. We also get a good idea of the personality of the father, Abner, by the way Sarty describes his physical appearance. Abner is...