Comparison and Contrast: Barn Burning Sartoris Snopes is a young boy with a major conflict in his life; “be true to his blood”? or tell the truth. His father, a shady character with very cruel intentions has had to relocate his family because he is a “barn burner”. After one of Sarty’s fathers pigs gets loose for the second time, one of his neighbors tells him he can have it back for a dollar fee which angers the father so much that he burns down the neighbors’ barn. So Sarty’s father is asked to appear before the Justice of the Peace to settle the matter.
"Barn Burning" -- Faulkner This story by William Faulkner is set in the post Civil War South among a family of sharecroppers who are forced to take up new residence regularly when the actions of the family patriarch force them to move on often. The main character is named Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or Sarty, and though the story is narrated by an uninvolved narrator, we see much of what happens through Sarty's eyes. His father is a man who feels cheated by the world. He has seen his condition in the world deteriorate since the war. He recognizes the class structure of his society and recognizes that before the war he was not on the lowest rung of the social ladder; despite his rugged life of that time, he could always claim to be superior to
He’s too old and ultimately he is losing his mind. Willy’s constant flashbacks and hallucinations begin to get the better of him. But he refuses to admit what is beginning to happen. Willy’s wife goes to her sons because of their fathers’ behavior. She tells them of the noose found in the basement, and also of how Willy has been getting into car ‘accidents.’ She begins to cry and tell Biff and Happy that Willy may not have been the most perfect father or husband or businessman, but he was a good guy and that “attention must be paid.” Clearly his whole family is affected by Willy’s recent behavior and willy can start to recognize this.
"I gave him enough wire to patch up his pen" (226, 3). Sartoris father was now on trial, and as Sartoris watches, he feared for the family and his father, not for himself. And he feels grief and despair "the smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief" (226, 1). The author uses the term despair a number of times. This denotes hopelessness, and shows us that Sartoris sees that there is nothing he can do about the situation.
The only thing that he has left, and what’s remind family for him, was the button pulled out from his jacket, which his mother replaced once from her own jacket. Reza has been shattered from his family on his young age with out knowledge why, he has been pushed to real life much to early. Family in Kashkuli’s story “The Button” doesn’t have any other option cost by poverty; they have to sacrifice their son to give him and the rest of the family better opportunity. No one of them wants it nor mother, father and definitely Reza who didn’t understand everything yet. They’re trying to do everything to
Yunior's knowledge is revealed in small flashback vignettes that interrupt the party scenes. He remembers his father taking him to the "other woman's" home, where, after Yunior has vomited in the van, the other woman cleans him and treats him affectionately. She then disappears upstairs with his father for an hour, during which time Yunior sits, "ashamed, expecting something big and fiery to crash down on our heads" (36). He quickly realizes, however, that this potentially devastating event is actually normalized within his father's life; his father begins to take Yunior and his brother Rafa to the woman's house repeatedly, with Yunior becoming a silent collaborator in the
He is not hiding why doesn’t want to visit his family. When Fanton was a young boy his brothers hunted him and taunted him, as said in the story “He was startled by the sound of Peter roaming his name. The summons might have meant anything from “Mom wants you for dinner” to “prepare for a beating”” or “Over the years they have bloodied his nose, pulled down his pants and squeezed the sides of his lips while forcing him to repeat “I’m a pretty baby” over and over again”. Therefor when Fanton lost his favorite model car he was quick to blame his brothers, accusing them for taking it and hiding it his reaction is described like this in the story:”Fintan went to the kitchen and threw the only tantrum of his life. While his mother and brothers looked on, he shrieked, stamped, broke a dish and went stiff as a corpse”.
He was upset about his father “John watched and listened, hating him.”(43) He was disgusted about Gabriel for his hypocrisy “No one, none of the saints…. his life was anything but spotless” (53) Because of his grudge against his father John wanted to take revenge “Nevertheless, this man, God’s minister,…………and wanted to kill him still.”(53) He was frustrated about his father and wanted to give him a hard lesson.
She screams “‘Help, for God’s sake, help!’...fled from the table, and fell into the arms of his father, who came rushing up to her” (18). His mother has asthma, and Gregor is concerned about upsetting her. His father, however, has quite a different reaction. Gregor’s manager flees from the house and his father gets angry. Instead of showing the slightest bit of concern for Gregor, he instead reacts with violence, lashing out at Gregor.
Because of his addiction, he is thrown out of his home by his parents. His father smacks him in the face, calls him trash and throws him out on the street. Not long after Lucky finds Dove. Dove is a drug dealer who decides to help Lucky and takes him into his home, where Lucky is to be his runner. Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him.