Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
In William Faulkner's story, "Barn Burning", we find a young man who
struggles with the relationship he has with his father. We see Sarty, the young
man, develop into an adult while dealing with the many crude actions and ways of
Abner, his father. We see Sarty as a puzzled youth who faces the questions of
faithfulness to his father or faithfulness to himself and the society he lives
in. His struggle dealing with the reactions which are caused by his father's
acts result in him thinking more for himself as the story progresses. Faulkner
uses many instances to display the developing of Sarty's conscience as the theme
of the story "Barn Burning." Three instances in which we can see the developing
of a conscience in the story are the ways that Sarty compliments and admires his
father, the language he uses when describing his father, and the way he obeys
his father throughout the story.
The first instance in which we can......
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