Sarty Essay

"Barn Burning," Sarty, a young boy, is going through a period of initiation into adult life. During this process, he has to make a life altering decision. For Sarty, his father's fires become the element that plays many roles and eventually drives him to decide the path of his life. In the beginning of the story, Abner is in court for having set fire to Mr. Harris' barn. This fire plays an integral role in bringing father and son together. It is because of the fire that Sarty and Abner find themselves

Throughout the text of “Barn Burning”, Sarty seems to have repetitive feelings of grief and despair, yet he hesitates to out his father for his crimes. He hates his father’s crimes and his father’s way of life. Yet, Sarty is hesitant to out his father for his crimes. Mainly because he hopes his father will change, he fears his father will harm him physically or emotionally, and he places a priority on his family’s wellbeing before his own. First, Sarty hesitates to reveal his father’s crimes

To the reader, Ab Snopes, the antagonist and father of Sarty, is portrayed as pyromaniac with no sense of respect of compassion for others property. However, authors Fargnoli, Golay, and Hamblin illustrates him as “mean spirited father, known for burning down barn” (58). The story begins with Ab being on trial for allegedly setting a man’s barn on fire. Ab was eventually acquitted of the pending charge due to lack of evidence and was ordered out of town. The reader assumed Ab possibly made a mistake

some people this can happen in a really young age and can change a significant person life, has this short story is about. Barn Burning opens with a trial in a Southern town. A boy, Sarty dealing with his conflict against his father, his own family. Throughout the story we see the dual instinct of loyalty and integrity Sarty faced. Early in the story Sarty’s actions were to defend his family, for example when he is leaving the court house with his family and he gets in a fight with the person who calls

William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" contains a character, Sarty, whose individual maturity ultimately initiates a more positive lifestyle than what is provided by his family. Sarty faces much drama throughout the entire short story which builds his personal maturity and allows him to truly evaluate the negative and positive aspects of his life. The dramatic conflict is between Sarty and his father, Abner Snopes, an older man who can be characterized as a 19th century terrorist who has a keen predilection

understands how he is developing. The narrator aids in the plot build-up by describing the events occurring in the story. The reader learns at the beginning of the story (scene of courtroom) that Sarty is already conflicted between family loyalty and his own morals. At this point the reader understands that Sarty will eventually have to choose between family loyalty and his own morals. All of this sets up the plot of the story due to the fact that the climax of the story is Sarty's final decision of this

narrator putting Colonel (Sarty) Sartoris Snopes in the main focus of the story. The reason why is Sarty the central character in Barn Burning by William Faulkner is that that through the whole story Sarty’s thoughts and feelings are what the story is being focused on. At the beginning of the story, when the boy is called to testify against his father, there is a paragraph that shows Sarty struggles in his mind. The stream of consciousness narration is being used when Sarty has to convince himself

are the key differences in how the main characters come to grasp the same basic ideal. In Indian Camp, the protagonist, Nick, is put face-to-face with uncomfortable scenarios and finally is forced to endure and triumph over these challenges, whereas Sarty does essentially the same thing, but instead of accepting the standards put before him, he overthrows them and accepts what he believes masculinity should be. During the time of writing Indian Camp, masculinity may have been intertwined with the notion

we are today; it is the process of coming of age. Sarty portrays this action of becoming a man in William Faulkner’s short story, “Barn Burning.” Sarty must decide what kind of man he is going to become. He grows up with an abusive father named Abner Snopes. Always moving from town to town because of his father’s terrifying hobby of burning barns, he learns how truly awful Abner is. When he comes to terms with the reality of the situation, Sarty decides that he does not want to be a man

of the blood bond they shared. After the long lasting struggle between his father’s authority and his own idea of justice Sarty finally chose to confidently follow his own standards of justice, which shows him taking his next steps into manhood. From an early age we are taught to respect our parents and elders decisions whether they are right or wrong. In this story, Sarty debates whether or not he