Modesty Lorick
World literature 203
"Justice for the barn" As a child we tend to look up to someone much older than us. We watch everything they do from their actions, how they interact and speak with other people. Someone a child would usually look up to is an older sibling, mother or father. We look for this person to lead us down the right path and to have our best interest at heart. To encourage, provide and make sure that whatever decision we may make is the right decision. In William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," Abner is the opposite of what a father should display to his child. Instead of encouraging his son, Sarty, to make his own morally decisions. Abner wants Sarty to lie for him in order to protect him from being punished for burning farms.. Abner forces fear into Sarty by telling him he must always stay loyal to his family. Abner and Sarty relationships goes through trials due to Abners criminal and manipulative ways.
In the short story " Barn Burning" by William Fualkner it highlights how the choices people make in life can affect others. Abner and his family are very poor. A description of Sarty aware us of this " small and wiry like his father, in patched and faded jeans even to small for him, with straight uncombed brown hair" Abner retaliates on the rich land owners who pays him a lacking quantity
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One of them is the theme of morality and loyalty to the law. The main character Sarty protests against his father’s violent plan because he does not want to follow the instructions of such immoral person. He realizes that destruction is not the way to fight against inequality. When the local boy accuses Sarty’s father of his crime, Sarty tries to defend his family. However, when Sarty’s father decides to continue his criminal actions and to burn one more barn, the boy does not confirm his decision. Fire is an important symbol in "Barn