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Barn Burning and Sonny's Blues
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In the story Barn Burning by William Faulkner, it was obvious that the character of young Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or Sarty, would end up either running away from home to escape his father, or stay and become the same type of man that his farther was. In many ways, he was more mature and grown up than his father, who may have been mentally ill, suffering from depression. Depression derived from being considered “white trash” and the connotations that go along with that title.
In the courtroom scene at the beginning of the story, we see that while Sarty is very proud of his father, he also feels protective of him as if their roles were reversed. This includes lying to a judge in a court of law as seen in the next thought of Sarty, “He ai
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