Family Loyalty In 'Burn Burning'

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Some of the major themes of Burn Burning were the class system, family loyalty, and most essentially the ways in which we fight against perceived wrongs. This family, especially Mr. Snopes, is frustrated with the class system and the never ending cycle of poverty. He victimizes his family even before they are forced to work to fill the upper class’ pocketbooks. The first day is when he track manure into the house. He tends to paint the upper class with the same brush and extends the stereotypes of the lower class through his acts a vandalism. Mr. Snopes is also very intent upon family loyalty. I think if his family didn’t blindly support his perceived crusade he would no longer have any perceived power over the upper class. He wishes to jump

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