"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner Sarty Sarty Snopes is a ten year old boy whose family is forced into a world of poverty and fear. He lives with his father, mother, brother, two sisters, and two aunts. Sarty's father is a very bitter and mean man who burns barns of other people and then uproots his family to a new place. In the story, "Barn burning" by William Faulkner, Sarty Snopes is an underprivileged, lonely, …showed first 75 words of 498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 498 total…his father is doing is wrong. Yet, he loves his father and is always wishing for a change. He struggles within himself to decide what to do about the situation. At the end of the story he decides to tell on his father and live without him. He cannot live another day knowing that what his father is doing to people is wrong. He knows that by telling, he must leave and never look back.