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This 5 page paper discusses the troubled relationship between Abner Snopes and his son, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, in William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a coming-of-age tale of the boy, Colonel Sartoris Snopes ("Sarty"), who finds himself opposed to his father and the mans actions. The story opens as a justice of the peace
tries the boys father, Abner; a man named Harris has complained that Abner Snopes burned his barn (Faulkner). Harris explains that Snopess hog got into his corn; he caught it
and sent it back, warning him that if it happened again, Harris would keep the animal (Faulkner). The hog got into Harriss corn again, and he kept it; when Snopes
came after it, Harris gave him some wire to patch his pen (Faulkner). Snopes didnt mend the fence, and the hog got away again, and again wound up in Harriss
corn (Faulkner). This time he didnt give it back and instead said that Snopes would have to pay for it; soon after that, a strange black man came to Harris
and said "He say to tell you wood and hay kin burn" (Faulkner). That same night, Harriss barn burned, and though he saved his animals, the building was a total
loss (Faulkner). Based on his dealings with Snopes and the message brought by the unfamiliar slave, Harris brought his complaint. When the judge asks if he can produce the
black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faulkner). At first Sarty thinks Harris means his older brother, but
in fact Harris wants to have the younger boy questioned (Faulkner). Faulkner describes the boy as being "small and wiry like his father ... with straight, uncombed, brown hair and
eyes gray and wild as storm scud" (Faulkner). Then Faulkner suddenly shifts perspective, and were in the boys head as he looks around at the people in the courtroom: the
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