A & P And Barn Burning Comparison

He is even more afraid of losing his father’s trust after Abner hits him “hard but with out heat”(280) not for telling the truth, but for wanting to. Sarty is conscious of the fact that if Abner knew his desire for “truth, justice, he would have hit”(280) him again and that Abner’s recommendation that he “learn to stick to” his “own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you”(280) is more of a threat rather than fatherly advice. Sarty learns to stifle any qualms he has and overlook his own developing morals in order to defend his father’s cold-blooded attacks. In the face of Abner’s “outrage and savagery and lust”(286) and the ever-present conflict these emotional outbursts cause, Sarty’s sense of obligation to his father out weighs his desire to “run on and on and never look back”(286). He hopes being forced out of town will transform the side of Abner that possesses an “inherent [ly] voracious prodigality with material not his own”(279) and he will be satisfied once and for all. As father and son walk within sight of an impressive manor “big as a courthouse”(280) owned by Major de Spain, a wealthy landowner with whom Abner has struck a deal to farm corn on his land, Sarty knows at once that “they are safe from him”(280). His father’s “ravening”(281) envy could not possibly touch these “people whose lives are part of this peace and dignity”(281). But, Abner is seething with “jealous rage”(281) at the sight of the de Spain

The setting of this story is very important because it gives you a sense of what life was like back during the late 1800s. “Barn Burning” takes place in the south after the civil war. After the civil war, the south was in the period of reconstruction. A lot of the south was destroyed from the war, and it affected everyone in the south from their economy, to their personal lives. Many people lived impoverished like the Snopes family. Abner Snopes holds a lot of resentment because he couldn’t be successful in his life. Instead of changing his life and working hard, he resents everything and everyone around him. This attitude eventually leads to his downfall.

To begin, I will talk about the similarities between “A&P” and “Barn Burning.” “A&P” takes place at a normal grocery store in which many people dress properly. One day, three teenage girls walk into this store wearing nothing but bathing suits. The story concentrates around the thoughts Sammy, the cashier, has while watching these girls. When the girls come to check out in Sammy’s lane, the manager notices their attire and makes his way over to where the three girls are. Lengel, the manager, criticizes the girls for what they are wearing. As the girls begin to leave the store, Sammy suddenly turns to Lengel and quits his job. Sammy secretly hopes the girls are watching him and will consider him their hero; however, the girls are gone and did not notice his attempt at a heroic act. The manager tries to talk Sammy out of quitting, but Sammy feels that he must go through with his impromptu decision. At the end of the story, Sammy exists the store alone and with an ambiguous felling that life would still be hard to him afterward.

Sarty a young boy who is nervous about being in court. He might have to make a choice between family and foe. Mr. Harris’s barn is burnt down over a dispute about a pig. Colonel Sartoris, Sarty as his family calls him, is in the general store, which doubles as the court house, with his father, Abner Snopes, who is on trial for burning Mr. Harris’s barn down. Sarty being in the courtroom begins to bring out “Sarty's sense of family loyalty to his father.” (Moore 3) Sarty has knowledge of previous times when his father burned buildings down. The judge dismisses the case but tells Abner he should leave the

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.

Once the family arrives at the new farm, the grand mansion owned by Major de Spain located there immediately evokes two different reactions from Sarty and Abner. To Abner, who chose neither side in the Civil War and now resents his position in life and every force that seems to oppose him, the mansion is yet another representation of his enemy--which seems to be almost everything. To Sarty, the mansion looks like a courthouse and represents justice.

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

When he warns de Spain of his barn burning, Sarty becomes disloyal to his father and his

The father figure is important to a young growing boy. In “Barn Burning”, there are several examples that occurs which demonstrates Sarty’s point of view of his father. Sarty’s father should’ve tried to be a role model for his son. When I was younger I looked up to my father and wanted to be just like him when I grew

William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” features Sarty who must make a choice between doing what is right and aligning with his family. Each character predictably has a future that will not be as problematic as his or her current or past life. Granny Weatherall had a long, full life. As she lies in her bed dying, she believes that she is fine. She reminisces on her past of hard labor, love, and family.

Sarty still cares for his family in some sense, he still feels love towards his father, even though he understands that what his father's deeds are wrong and he really had to stop them and cease to be a part of them. The fact that the boy is not able to come back home is not a question of his choice, I think he just canont go back. So, Sarty's heart still suffers from some conflict that is not really resolved, even though the situation has really changed. As I have already discussed, at the beginning of the story Sarty feels a strong allegiance to his father, however, finally we learn that his views change radically.

He did not want to lash out at someone whenever something did not go his way, as Abner had. If Abner felt insulted in any fashion, he retorted in a violent manner, consequently that meant hitting his children or setting fires to barns. Sarty, in contrast, did not want to be hurtful. He showed this when he tells his mother to let him go, to prevent Abner from causing any more damage. “I don’t want to have to hit you!” he exclaimed (Faulkner 7). His first resort was not violence, and neither did he want it to be. “It is not his wish to take the road chosen by his father,” Ulf Kirchdorfer wrote in “The Almost Unbearable burden of Weight in William Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’”, “He did not want to deal with the de Spain family the way his father had planned. Sarty was… an unwilling participant in Abner’s schemes”(15). He knew that he was still under his father’s roof and must do what he said in order to avoid consequences, but he most certainly did not approve of Abner’s decisions. In the end, he decided to break away from all the violence, literally and

Sarty loosens himself from his mother’s grip and he runs to warn Major deSpain that his father his burning his barn. We see the change in Sarty at this point. Sarty chooses to have integrity at the cost of losing his family. Shots were heard and his father might be dead so now that he knows that he betrayed his family sarty runs away. Sarty made the right decision- to stand for justice- and he will be better off having integrity than being a dishonest person.

All stories, as all individuals, are embedded in a context or setting: a time, a place, and a culture. In fact, characters and their relationship to others are better understood in a specific context of time, place and atmosphere, as they relate to a proposed theme or central point of a story. Abner is revealed as a sadistic character who confronts his son with the choice of keeping his loyal ties to the family or parting for a life on his own with no familial support. Sarty is Abner's son, a young boy torn by the words of his father and the innate senses of his heart. Sarty is challenged by an internal conflict, he wants to disobey his father, yet he knows that if he leaves he will have nowhere to go and no one to turn to. We will

Summary of central events: Mr. Snopes burns Mr. Harris barn because Mr. Harris charges him, “a dollar pound fee,” (515) for the return of his hog. In court the judge dismisses the charges against Snopes but warns him to leave the town for good and Snopes agrees to comply. The next day the family arrives at their new home. After Snopes tracks horse manure onto the expensive rug, the server instructs him to clean and return it. Snopes ruins the rug from improper cleaning and Major de Spain “charge[s] [him] twenty bushels of corn against [his] crop” (521). At the last court appearance the judge decides that Mr.Snopes has to pay Major de Spain 10 bushels of corn for the ruin of the rug. Because Snopes is upset from having to pay de Spain for