A Critical Approach To Barn Burning
"Barn Burning" is a story that is sad because it clearly shows and states the classical struggle between the "privileged" and the "underprivileged" classes.
Time after time emotions of sadness and despair surface from both sides of the story.
The story outlines two distinct protagonists, along with two distinct
antagonists. The first being his father, Abner Snopes ("Ab") and the second, Colonel Sartoris Snopes ("Sarty"). Sarty is the protagonist that is surrounded by his father's antagonism, where Ab is the protagonist antagonized by the struggle and social structure that is put on himself and his family.
The social and economic status of the main characters is poor. At the mercy of a quasi- feudal system in the 1800's in North America and no hope of improving their conditions, Abner, being a sharecropper took himself and his family and had to
share half of the harvest with the landowner and share pay for the necessities of......
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