Catching Fire Analysis

In “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, the main focus is on the Snopes family. Sarty Snopes is a ten-year-old boy, who has to deal with his demeaning father, Abner—who has recently been convicted of arson, so the family is forced to move out of town. Because of this conviction, Sarty is put in a very uncomfortable situation where he might have to testify against his father, which causes several conflicts within the story. Faulkner uses Sarty to portray that not every child grows up with ideal parents that genuinely care for he or she. Faulkner exemplifies this truth through pathos, symbolism, theme, and diction. Will Sarty be courageous and fight against his father or will he join his father and become a coward, like him?

If you went out one day and out of nowhere you find yourself in a life-or-death situation would it be your fault? People in a life-or-death situation should be held accountable for their actions because most of the time people know that if they do something that can put them in a life-or-death situation then something bad will happen but they still do it willingly. Another person might not agree with this claim and say that people should not be held accountable for their actions. The reason he or she might think this is because if when a person does face a life-or-death situation it might not be entirely their fault. The following reasons are examples of why my claim is stronger.

Barn Burning is a story by William Faulkner, a native of Oxford, Mississippi. The story starts off in a small town court which is also a store. Mr. Harris who owns a barn, is blaming Mr. Snopes for burning down his barn. The judge asks Mr. Harris what proof he has, but he doesn’t have proof that he actually did it. Instead he thinks Mr. Snopes has it out for him because one time Mr. Snopes hog got out in Mr. Harris cornfield. He demands a dollar for his return, but instead Snopes sent someone to get it and warned him that wood is capable of catching fire. And that night Harris barn caught on fire. But this isn’t enough to convict him of this. But this doesn’t stop Mr. Harris, he calls Mr. Snopes son to see what he knows. Nothing happens, but the judge wants Mr. Snopes to leave because he has had nothing but trouble. The family heads home and later that night Mr. Snopes wakes his son Sartoris and claims that he was going to throw him under the table and say he did it. The family then settles in a new location, where they will work for Major de Spain. Snopes being the person he is, walks into Major's house with mud on his boots making a mess. Later that day Snopes is asked to clean the rug he pretty much destroyed. Snopes cleans it like someone that has never cleaned before, making it worse. He returns the rug and the next day is confronted by Major. Major wants to be payed for his destroyed rug. Snopes denies paying and is taken to court. He loses in court and this makes him very mad. Snopes then tries to burn down Majors barn. But Sartoris runs and tells Major. Major comes and kills Snopes before he could do any damage.

At around 0030 11/16/16 I Sr. Officer Chad Stephenson of Siena Heights University (SHU) Department of Public Safety (DPS) was approached by resident student Stanley Saunders to report that his jacket was stolen out of his dorm room 409 on 11/15/16 between 1400-2300. Saunders stated that after he come back from a meeting at around 1230 he took his jacket off and but it on his bed. Then at around 1400 the left his room to go and hung out with some friends, when he came back at around 2300 he noticed his jacket was missing. Saunders searched his room, and talked with his roommates to see if any of them seen it but they all said no. The jacket is described as an Black North Face theremoball full zip up and is a size XL, Saunders states that he only bought it around a month ago.

The Fire This Time, by Jesmyn Ward, describes and explains the struggles that many African Americans face on a daily basis. In her introduction, Ward wants to address the ongoing racial injustices in the United States. Being an African American woman who grew up in the United States, she has dealt first hand with the “limiting, airtight closet” she describes as living in the American South. Jesmyn Ward gives the readers a glimpse of what the book, The Fire This Time, will be about. Touching on the interwoven past and present of African American lives, the many victims of racial injustice in the United States, and the image White people have of African Americans.

On September 10th, Katie Sanders from PunditFact and former writer from Politifact Florida gave a speech at the Bob Graham Center titled Pants on Fire: Misinformation in American Politics. The talk and subsequent Q&A centered on the perpetuation of misinformation that is experienced in contemporary American politics as well as what journalists and common people alike can do to combat it. Though these were the focal points, three related tangents were my main takeaway from the experience.

On March 25, 1911, at 4:45 pm there was a fire that broke down at the triangle shirtwaist factory located in NYC Asch Building at 23-29 Washington Street were engulfed in flames. First, the fire started 8th floor and on to the 9th then 10th which was occupied by triangle waist company. Second, the fire killed 146 people and most of them were females between the ages of 15-25 years old. Lastly, the owners Harris and blanck were guilty of this crime in my opinion and the government didn’t help the victims of the fire in their company.

F- On December 13, during seventh hour in my communications class on a Tuesday seven of us, Me (Sunmi), Morgan, Brandi, Maya, Rachael, Caralee, and Laine gathered in order to have a fishbowl discussion about the mistreatment and exploitation of marine animals.The primary purpose of this discussion according to our teacher, Mr. Wolfe was for us to select a committee type, create a problem, and then hold a discussion where we attempt to solve the problem in 30 minutes.The aquatic life representations, create a problem- marine animals are being exploited, hold a discussion that and create a resolution in 30 minutes. The second purpose of this activity was to help us become aware of the roles we as individuals play

“[T]oo many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands” (King, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” 112). In the last sermon of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. shared this piece of insightful information. The atmosphere of King’s time contained ignorance and oblivion. Today, the atmosphere looks similar, and more than ever before, people must start engaging in the major revolution taking place. Many people continue through life, unaware of the happenings around them. When they choose to sleep through the revolution, their chance to make a difference dissipates, and lasting consequences arise.

Being a minority and coming from a first generation immigrant family, it can be difficult to think about my future because of what I’ve grown up around. I acknowledge that i’m an intelligent woman, but my surroundings made achieving greater things feel strange, or like something I shouldn’t be striving for. In James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, the first letter My Dungeon Shook was aimed specifically for his nephew but is easily a message for people of color and really for anyone who is struggling with self doubt.

A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper. The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. When a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to him before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, he is driven to survive by one desire: revenge.

Katniss is left with two choices; does she join the other tributes and risk her life or does she stay on her own and try and survive? These two conflicts lead to even more people dying because the monsters came out and kill a lot of people. If Katniss had joined the bad group, they would have killed everyone. These books have a lot in common. Both conflicts lead to a life or death decision.

“Time passes, don’t regret it, reconsider it. It was meant for you to have the experiences you had. Older people are wiser because they had acute vision about what they were supposed to be on this earth,” she added.

She had a flashback about her father and how he would read to her every night but some books were to be destroyed. The Red Guards had burned the books. She would try to remember all of the stories her father told as much as she could. During the days of the Cultural Revolution, she had found babies being abandoned and some that died. Most of them were girls, she told her mother what she had seen. Her mother was not surprised what was happening. Her mother told her that there are some people who just don’t want to care for a daughter. These came back to her when she was pregnant with Dong-mei. That’s why she wanted to give birth at the hospital so it would be hard to get rid of the baby. However, she had to give birth to Dong-mei at the house.

“Barn burning”, a story by William Faulkner, tell the story about a boy called Sartoris that decides to “betray” his dad for committing crimes like burning barns. Sartoris, who is just starting to see the difference between right and wrong, has been covering up his dad’s crimes, and in some occasions, helping him to commit them. His dad thinks this is the only way to make justice if anyone messes with him or his family. Eventually, Sartoris starts to analyze the severity of his dad’s actions and chooses not to help him anymore in his attempt to burn the second barn belonging to his new boss, De Spain. Faulkner’s message in his work can vary from the perspective of every reader. Jane Hiles, in her essay “Blood Ties in Barn Burning”, states that Faulkner’s intention wasn’t to recognize Sartori’s decision, but to support his dad’s beliefs of being loyal to him and his family. Even if it means that he has to help him with the crimes. As evidence, she presents an interview directed to Faulkner in which he says that in order for his people to survive against the conquerors they needed to remain as a clan. “Faulkner delivered an appraisal of the phenomenon of clannishness that bears considerable relevance to Abner Snope’s defensive posture in Barn Burning”, she states.