... their constant opposition towards an unjust social system. Barn Burning is such a short story, which defines the limits of the individual under the pressures of an unfair sharecropper system. For Abner Snopes, the only means of revenge towards the system is an act of primitive violence, that of barn burning, the ultimate reaction against the unjustice. Ironically, this act finally leads ... to the construction of the identity of Sarty Snopes, Abner's son, who perceives it as destructive and evil, and wants to shape an opposite identity to that of his father, based on moral human values....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate