... morally challenged father or asserting his own morality and individuality by running away and leaving his family and his pain behind. The antagonist in the story is Abner Snobes. Abner Snobes is a angry and inconsiderate man who has hate for almost anybody who is not "blood-kin", and he portrays that hatred and contempt throughout the ... the readers can first get a sense of the moral dilemma that Faulkner is trying to portray in this story. Next, we are introduced to the antagonist, Abner Snobes, when he talks for the first time since the trial began. He also establishes the fact that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the end of the story the reader learns his views have drastically changed. The plot of "Barn Burning" revolves around the consequences of the choices Abner has made in the past. He has been a parasite in former communities causing his family grief and embarrassment. The protagonist in this story is Sarty ... running down Major de Spain's drive and he hears Major de Spain's horse galloping behind him. The symbolic resolution to the conflict comes when Abner and his elder son are shot and killed while trying to burn Major de Spain's barn. However the actual solution does not occur until som...

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• Grade Level: High School

... at a glance appears to concentrate mainly on the character of the young boy Colonel Sartoris Snopes (Sarty) and his inner conflict. Pressured by his father (Abner Snopes) to lie in court to protect his father, he feels as if he is "being pulled two ways like two teams of horses.""(Faulkner 381) ... , however, although the character that the reader most sympathizes with, is not however the only important character in the story. The character of Sarty's father, Abner, is also vital to our understanding of the story. Portrayed in the story as a cruel and heartless character consumed by hatr...

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... his hog got into Mr. Harris's corn. Mr. Harris returns it and gives him wires to patch up his pen so it will not happen again. However, Abner does not patch up his pen and so the hog gets out again. Mr. Harris keeps the hog when the hog comes again and demands a dollar pound fee ... to return it back. Coincidently that night a "nigger" pays him the fee and the barn burns. Mr. Harris accused Abner. Abner is put on trial and Mr. Harris asks Sartoris to testify. "Our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! Min and hisn both! He's my father!) Sartoris ... is silly to think that a young boy ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... people in a proletariat fashion because it comes naturally to him. Growing up he was wealthy and his writing gives the impression that he is above the others in his neighborhood. Abner Snopes, from "Barn Burning," is also a character in Faulkner's The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, "My Grandmother Millard," and "Vendee." He is a well developed character in part because ... name Colonel Sartoris appears in both short stories. In "A Rose For Emily," the Colonel is the Mayor of Jefferson and in "Barn Burning," he is the man who shot Abner Snopes, when Abner tried the stea...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the old South with her. The short story, "Barn Burning" was the story of an itinerant family of farm laborers moved from place to place after the violent pyromaniac father, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employer's barn. The atrocities he witnessed during the Civil War seemed to have burned a hole deep into his psyche. The story ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School