Barn Burning Sarty Character Analysis

Abner doesn’t want to get caught so he forces Sarty to lie for him and to make sure he won’t go against the family. “You’re getting to be a man. You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you. Do you think either of them, any man there this morning, would? Don’t you know all they wanted was a chance to get at me because they knew I had them beat? Eh?” (p420) Abner wants Sarty to stay with the family and to not go against his family because he knows that if Sarty decides to tell the truth of what he did about burning the barns, Abner would go to jail or something worse. Abner takes pride in himself and is very satisfied with the fact that he hasn't gotten caught

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Sarty never justifies his father’s actions and is aware that if he allows things to remain the same, he will become a product of his environment. This is his motive for warning Abner’s next barn burning victim and his chance to move on with his life.

William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" describes a typical relationship between wealthy people and poor people during the Civil War. The main character, Abner Snopes, sharecrops to make a living for his family. He despises wealthy people. Out of resentment for wealthy people, he goes and burns their barns to get revenge. Abner's character over the course of the story is unchanging in that he is cold hearted, lawless, and violent.<br><br>First, Abner's unchanging character shows his cold heartedness. After being sentenced to leave the country for burning a man's barn, he shows no emotions to his family. During the story, there was not a time when he apologized or offered a word of encouragement to them. His tone of voice when talking

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Throughout the story, Abner proves he has no care for those around him and often comes off as a rude person that expresses feelings of discontent with life. When in the court his young son Sarty is called to the stand to testify against his father. At this point, as he walks up to the stand he begins to ponder to himself, “He aims for me to lie, he thought, again with that frantic grief and despair. And I will have to do it” ( Faulkner 3). At this moment it is inferred Abner does not have good morals or intention and he encourages bad habits including crime into his family. Although Sarty did not testify in the court and his father was not proven guilty they still left town to get away from all the townspeople calling Abner a “Barn Burner”. Abner is then proven to be aggressive when he strikes two mules in a rather savage manner with excessive force. It is included

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This first step in Sarty’s change is shown at the very start of Barn Burning. His father, Abner Snopes, is on trial accused of burning a barn. The trial is told from the perspective of Abner’s son, Sarty. As he observes the trial Sarty mentally calls the accuser “his father’s enemy” (par. 1). Although Sarty immediately corrects himself and reclassifies the accuser as both his and Snopes enemy, Sarty’s estrangement from his father’s ideals first starts here. Because of his disgust with himself, I can only assume that before Sarty has blindly followed his father. Consequently, Sarty still fights to maintain this loyalty. As displayed when Sarty is asked to testify. Knowing that his father would want him to lie, Sarty is filled with “frantic grief and despair” (par. 1). He mentally

Abner was the Sarty’s father and he had a fascination for provoking fires. Abner was emotionless and violent; he had an emotionless voice, grey eyebrows, and pebble-colored eyes. His body was stiff, and he used to walk with a limp because he got shot one time he was trying to steal a horse during the Civil War. According to Abner, he had the right to revenge on anyone whom he believes have wronged him.

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