... such as "nigger- (Faulkner 146) also make up the diction of the story. Such racist slurs are used to build a certain attitude toward the character who says them. Faulkner describes Abner's walk as "stiffly- (Faulkner 146) which also affects the reader's feelings about a character. Sarty uses the word "bovine- (Faulkner 152) to describe his fat sisters. For many readers who are ... the theme. William Faulkner once again does not resemble Ernest Hemingway with the details he includes in "Barn Burning-. Details Faulkner gives are rather more rich and overdone than Hemingway. Abner's charac...

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... story are not seen through the eyes of the ten-year-old Sarty but a mature Sarty Snopes. One of the best examples of this is the scene where Sarty's father, Abner strikes his son. Immediately after this scene the narrator invokes the mature Sarty to ponder young boy's tormented childhood. According to Rio- Joliffe, Faulkner combines conventional narrative techniques of flashback ... such example where the reader is surrounded with the smell of cheese. (Faulkner 148). Another instance with quite detailed references to smells is in the description of the house where Abner and his family m...

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