The Importance Of Family In Faulker's Barn Burning

In "Barn Burning" it describes a very poor southern family of share croppers. They spend their days traveling from differnt farms and towns. While on this journey they have had (twelve movings 174) looking for any kind of work that will help them get by. As well as livnig in whatever humble living quarters that are provided to them when they are given a job. Faulker gives the reader a very good description of how the family lives. It makes you feel very overwhelmed and empathetic towards the family for how they have to live their lives to get by. Faulker describes their harsh living conditions of having so many people in one house. A "Two bedroom unpainted house, with two sisters, brother mother aunt and father." The family really had to become a unit and learn to work together as a team in order to survive. They had to soly rely on one another because their employer saw them as just another worker. The employer did not always provide them the best and proper quarters or food for the familes that were working their land. The employer paid limited money and even less of the crop. The boy really seems to be in a bind with his family when the barn burns down.

He is in court and is asked what happened, but …show more content…
Sure he wouldn’t have someone breathing down his back every second telling him what is right and what is wrong, however he would have no one, no education. No one to stick up for him, to help him, feeding him or looking after him. He would be sole relying on himself. So in this situation yes he went against the law, but it may have been for the best so he could have that protection essentially. They always say home is where the heart is. With this family moving so much I doubt he even knows what home means, however if he was ever one day to get out on his own maybe he would be able to build up and save and eventually settle down into his own