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    Sartoris Snopes Quotes

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    In the story Barn Burning, the younger of the two boys, named Colonel Sartoris Snopes, lives in a house with an abusive father and sisters and a mother that tries to stick up for the boy, but cannot because of the father and sisters being overpowering. The boy’s life around his father and sisters has been hard and is not easy to deal with, even though he deals with it on a daily basis. Sartoris is the protagonist in the story Barn Burning. He is a small ten-year-old boy who is wiry with wild, grey

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    Snopes In Barn Burning

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    chronicles the life of Abner Snopes, and the less-than-perfect relationship he has with his relatives and son, Sartoris. Snopes is a very bitter and discontented man, one who is envious of his rich land-owning neighbors. As a rather violent man, he has an insatiable desire to control people, and instill fear in their hearts. Despite his shortcomings, the theme of family loyalty is brought into perspective by Snopes. He values his familial bonds above all else, even the law. Snopes believes that every family

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    What Is Abner Snopes

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    William Faulkner creates Abner Snopes to show that society is not fair. Abner is a horrid individual who only has concern for himself. He holds authority over his family with physical and mental abuse. Not only is he traumatizing to his family but he also makes them assist in his obsession with burning barns down. Abner Snopes is an aggressive, vindictive, disrespectful man, who eventually pays for what he has done. It is evident that Abner Snopes is filled with rage and does not know how to control

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    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

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    In "Barn Burning," Abner Snopes, father of Colonel Sartoris, or Sarty, is portrayed as a strong dictatorial figure who lacks the nurturing qualities of a human. Emotionless and physically harmful to his family, Snopes is given the image of a terrible and destructive figure; however, is also thought of as brave in the eyes of his son, giving him sympathy. Influenced by his urge to rebel against class segregation, Abner Snopes is both a tyrant to those around him and a misunderstood, complex character

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    wrongdoings of burning down the barn. This is one of the many times that his father Snopes has been corrupt and immature when being truthful. The way Sartoris see’s it is that it is wrong. So wrong that when he finally can’t take it anymore he burst out what is immediately and most importantly on his mind. The fact that Sartori's father Snopes forces his son to lie on his behalf eats away at Santoris to the point of

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    In William Faulkner’s Barn Burning, a man name Abner Snopes has two encounters with the Justice of Peace due to two separate“crimes”. His son, Colonel Satoris Snopes are with him both times visiting the Justice of Peace. With Abner’s first crime, there is no evidence for Abner burning Mr. Harris’ barn but the court still gives a ruling. Abner does not have to pay Mr. Harris for reparations but is still exile. With Abner’s reactions before and after burning Mr. Harris’ barn and Satoris’ thoughts throughout

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    In "Barn Burning," Abner is described as stiff, wolf-like, and without heat because of his coldness and bitterness toward society in which he was part of during the time of the War Between the States. The main character is Abner Snopes who sharecrops to make a living for his family; in his story, Faulkner describes a typical relationship between wealthy people and poor people during that particular time. When described as stiff, we see Abner's abruptness and coldness towards his family as well

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    The main character, Sarty, is the son of a poor, migrant, sharecropper named Abner Snopes. Being a sharecropper, Abner has to to divvy up half to two-thirds of the harvest he reaps with the landowner, in return for a roof over his family's heads, food, water, use of the land, etc.. During the late 1800's, one could only imagine how difficult it must have been to lift oneself out of poverty; and for the Snopes, there was presumably no hope for advancement from the start. Abner knew what their future

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    Loews idea Abner’s character was probably derived from the Abner in the bible, because after reading his journal article there are many correlations between the two of them. One of the points that Prof. Loges made that I agreed with was that Abner Snopes’ son Sarty represents Ishbosheth, the son of King Saul. I believe that Sarty is representative of Ishbosheth, because in the beginning of the story Abner believes Sarty is going to betray him and punishes him, striking fear into him. While Ishbosheth

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