Barn Burning

Barn Burning

In this, another story written by William Faulkner in 1939, he uses a great deal of language to paint a

vivid picture of life in the mythical county of Yoknapataupha, Mississippi. This story is recounted from

The memories of a man named Colonel Sartoris Snopes (named after Colonel Sartoris whom his father

served in the Civil War).

His father was obviously a man of little or no education who had developed an attitude in life of serving

himself and no one else. He, at any perceived or real injustice always took matters into his own hands. The

story begins with him on trial for burning a neighbors barn after sending a black man over for his hog and

actually warning the man that hay and wood burn. Shortly thereafter the neighbors barn burned and the

story opens in a court of the Justice of the Peace. The then young boy is remembering all this and the

details of the court room which was actually a storeroom in a grocery ap...