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This 5 page paper discusses the reliability of the narrator as the story is revealed. Evidence is cited from the text to support the idea that the narrator is not only reliable, but gives evidence as to whom the narrator is. Quotes cited from the text. Synopsis included. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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commit the same mistakes as many of the other characters do. In Faulkners Barn Burning, the narrator is quite easily overlooked as the story unfolds. However, this sin of omission
is the same sin that Sarty Snopes father commits, placing his only son at odds with him. Many have argued that about the reliability of the narrator, but given the
chain of events as they unfold, his reliability is shown to be dependable. As the story opens, Sarty has been called to testify against his father on a matter
of arson. Sarty knows that his father is guilty, but has made up his mind, without much hesitation to back up his fathers story and perjure himself. His reasoning is
that family takes care of family. One has a duty to family, Sarty determines at the onset of the story. He has witnessed the warped pattern of his fathers behavior
from plantation and farm to another. This points toward the narrator as being Sarty, himself. Additional evidence lies in the narrators description of Abner Snope, in much the way
a child would admire a father. "There was something about his wolf-like independence and even courage . . . which impressed strangers, as if they got . . .
a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with his" (Faulkner 218-19). Sarty and his
family would move onto a farm to work as laborers, then working himself into a righteous indignation against the fate which has relegated he and his family to a life
of poverty, the elder Snope sets fire to some part of the property. But, this time will be different. Sarty and his family come to work on the plantation of
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