The Chronicles Of William Faulkner

In William Faulkner’s Barn Burning, Abner Snopes is a main character and father of Colonel Sartoris Snopes (Sarty), who is also a main character. Abner is a very poor looking man, unclean and unshaven. He always seems to wear the same thing, a dirty white button up shirt with a dirty black hat and coat.

In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner escorts the reader through the peculiar life of the main character Miss Emily Grierson. The gloomy tone of the story is set by the author beginning his tale with the funeral of Miss Emily. During course of the story, we are taken through different times in Miss Emily’s life and how she was lost in time, with the town around her moving forward. Through the use of southern gothic writing style, narrator point of view, and foreshadowing, Faulkner aids the reader in creating a visualization of Miss Emily and the town in which she lives while also giving an insight into her sanity.

While it is possible to regard Faulkner’s writing without the knowledge of his Southern heritage, Faulkner enthusiast and literary Critic Cleanth Brooks argues that in order to understand him, one must realize the importance of his being born in a particular time and place. Faulkner himself has made this connection and simply admitted to writing about what he knew best: his “own little postage stamp of native soil” (Brooks, Time 251). Brooks further develops the notion that Faulkner uses his personal knowledge and experience in his essay “Faulkner and the Muse of History.” He describes Faulkner’s surrounding acquaintances stating that, “…the people that he knew had clinging to their lives a great deal of the stuff of history—the history that had produced them and had helped them mold the culture out of which them came” (266). The South of Faulkner’s youth was still very much alive with pre-war memories being passed down through generations and weaving a culture all of its own. This Southern culture, also the culture Faulkner wrote about, held family very central to it. Society placed an emphasis on manners and honour, and was characterized by close personal relationships (Brooks, Muse). Even despite the region’s “quite rigid black-white caste system” there was

His actually education only goes as far as one year at the University of Mississippi. After leaving Oxford and living in New Haven, Connecticut for a few years, Faulkner joined the British Royal Flying Corps. He never served active duty, as the war ended before his training did. Faulkner returned home and began writing poetry. But his early writing was more of the traditional style- a mix of Shakespeare, Victorian, and Edwardian. It wasn’t until a trip to New Orleans in 1925 that he began to fiddle with his writing style, after a friend encouraged him to write more Southern based prose. His style also grew as he began reading James Joyce, a “high” modernist writer, and Sigmund Freud, and also took a trip to Europe- the center of modernist writing. With these influences, Faulkner began writing novels about Southern society, with an emphasis on the psychology of the characters. For example, in his novel The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner writes from four different points of view; the first three sections are of each of the three brother’s point of view, and the last section is omniscient. His writing also plays with chronology, not always following a specific timeline. The disjointedness of time is very prominent in As I Lay Dying. About the death of a mother, the 59 inner monologues and fifteen characters make the book more about the characters psychology rather than a

Faulkner’s speech of 1950 at the Nobel Banquet established a new definition of good writing, one engulfed within the tortures and joys of the human condition. To write only of the lustful and greedy, the gluttons and slothful is in Faulkner’s eyes literary blasphemy, for concentrating only upon the fall of man discredits the countless amounts of admirable traits of man persevering throughout his trials. Rather an author’s duty in Faulkner’s eyes is simple; to project the inner yearnings of man and exemplify through characters ‘the old verities and truths of the heart’, the universal truths in which all men can relate, those of love and pity, and of compassion and sacrifice. Focusing upon the suffering of men, Faulkner states that the writer

William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” is a well versed rendition of the post-Civil War era, about the lives of a family of poor tenant farmers. This story’s setting is in a fictional (yet almost familiar) county in Mississippi, and is told through the eyes of a young boy. In a detached sort of tone, Faulkner takes us step by step through the ups and downs of Abner’s moods, and how his youngest son, Sarty, perceives them. Here is the thesis statement: However, it is Faulkner’s style, tone, and use of long, flowing sentences, that most stand out to the reader. .

Colonel Sartoris Snopes, who is referred to as Sarty, is the protagonist of the short story Barn Burning by William Faulkner. Sarty is a ten-year-old boy who lives in the south of The United States in the 1890’s. Sarty is the only round character in the story. His father, Abner, expects Sarty to help him burn other people’s barns and lie to the Justice of the Peace. Surprisingly, Sarty has a sense of morality and justice, even though he has been raised by a terrible man. He may have gotten this sense of justice from being in courtrooms so often, or Faulkner is suggesting everyone is born with a sense of morality. Sarty has this trait throughout the entire story, but he changes by realizing he can make his own choices. He refrains from being morally correct out of fear of his father. There are three main points that mark Sarty’s growth in the story: the first courtroom scene, the de Spain Mansion scene, and the last barn burning scene.

In the tale Barn Burning, the author William Faulkner formally known for his short stories with a constant theme of Southern Renaissance, racism and modernism uses these themes as a constant reference throughout the story. Faulkner focuses in depth on the antagonist, Abner Snopes and his actions and how they impact other characters throughout the story. I believe Abner was continuously portrayed as a negative character throughout the short story by Abner’s aggressiveness towards everyone he comes in contact with, Faulkner’s depiction of Abner’s selfishness, and his jealousy for those around him and what he did not have.

In William Faulkner 's story, "Barn Burning,” we have a story that depicts a conflict between father and son, each of whom embrace different values. Interwoven into the story is class conflict between wealthy white landowners, tenant farming whites, and sharecropping African Americans. At the same time, you have another conflict between the three this dealing with race. The story also addresses the evils of slavery, tenant, and sharecropping and the vast social economic fallout that is left in the wake of end of the reconstruction era in the South. With the literal barn burning, you have a demonstration of a system that has a monetary imbalance that by design is meant to make the wealthy, wealthier and the poor even more poor at whatever

     The works of William Faulkner have had positive effects on readers throughout his career. Local legends and gossip trigger the main focus of his stories. Considering that Faulkner grew up in Mississippi, he was very familiar with the ways of the South. This award winning author has been praised by many critics for his ability and unique style of writing. One of Faulkner's most popular works, which also was his first short story nationally published in

William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” is an epic exhibition of the author’s style. In the story, Faulkner shows us the story of Colonel Sartoris Snopes regarding his want for good and his loyalty to his family. Throughout the story, Sarty is put in a position of having to struggle between his integrity and his want to defend his father and family. In “Barn Burning,” a struggle is displayed by Sarty Snopes between his want to do right and his want to honor his father.

William Faulkner’s writings are all written with an extremely unique style. “The exuberant and tropical

William Faulkner is often considered to be the greatest writer in the America history. His fame rests largely on his novels, especially for his closely examination of the southern culture. "That evening sun" is a good example of it.

There are many writers throughout history that have written great and consequential stories, pieces or poems, but I must say that William Faulkner is one of my favorites. William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the American South who wrote pieces like “A Rose for Emily”, and “Dry September”. As we journey together through my persuasive essay, I will explain to the readers why William Faulkner is an exceptional author.

Who is William Faulkner? William Faulkner, in full William Cuthbert Faulkner, original surname Falkner (born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi), American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. As the eldest of the four sons of Murry Cuthbert and Maud Butler Falkner, William Faulkner (as he later spelled his name) was well aware of his family background and especially of his great-grandfather, Colonel William Clark Falkner, a colourful if violent figure who fought gallantly during the Civil War, built a local railway, and published a popular romantic novel called The White Rose of Memphis. Faulkner soon moved with his parents to nearby Ripley and then to the town of Oxford, the seat of Lafayette county, where his father later became business manager of the University of Mississippi.