Them theme for barn burning by faulkner is how difficult the choice can be
between family
and ones conscience. Sarty, a 10 year old boy is torn between defending his
family and
listening to his sense or right and wrong throutought to the story.
father wants sarty to defend him in court.
fierce pull of blood
sarty choooses to listen to his conscience
in faulkners barn burning.. within the family, hatred for things that cant be
changed can
often blind a father and son to fight a war against everyone and everything
causing blood
and loyalty to lead self betrayal and self righteousness.
stick to your own blood
father wants to be defended in court
father is self righteous: maneure on rug.ut father would have hit him again
sarrty wanted justice b
darkness has a multi-layer meaning. it can be caused by regret, despair, or pure
evil. in
the story barn burning family convictions motivated by selfish ignorance was
stronger
than a righteous moral pull for the main character sarty. fear from sartys father
was
even present, even when he no longer had the capability to instill pain.
sarrtys grief and dispare. beginning and end
abner lying about the war
past meets the present. the life cycle is starting over
the fierce pull of blood.
this story represents a transformation from boy to man. originally the boy
symbolizes
innocence and ignorance. he makes a differentation between blood and burden
by choosing
to remove himself from his family and their choices. his right of passage is the
decision he makes that changes the course of his life.
obeys father-thinks for self
beg story-end of story
class conflict and abners inability to cope with his status caused him to suffer
from
delusions of grandeur therefore his family suffered greatly.
he despised authority
past is never dead
abner and faulkner came from families had money and lost it.
in william faulkners story, barn burning, sarty had to overcome past obstacles
and
leaving everything that is ordinary to achieve courage to begin a new future.
domestic abuse and class of conflict were past obstacles that gave sarty the
courage to
begin a new future.
teh idea of family loyalty was a trap by abner in order to keep sarty around
he used his past as a motivation to keep running toward pursuing goals and
dreams he was
not confident in achieving before.
motivation:
limited third person omnisienct
a narrarotor who chooses to tell you what his happening in class from someone
elses
perspective
shifts in point of view
limited omnscient to sartys point of view (page 3 or 4) (3rd paragraph)
fixing to tell him, you woulda told them....any man to hear them this morning
would..later 20 years later, wanted only truth , justihice, he woulda he woulda hit
me
again.
he is reflecting back, sarty leaves and runs to the future and ends up somewhere
where he
could run to the future.
this is the young boy 20 years later telling the story
stream of conscience
language and use of diction/ venacular
rarified language and southern dialect
long sentence structure