Life is truly complicated and never really figured out. We live our daily lives with blessings, trials and tribulations. We are constantly seeking out encouragement, hope and answer to life’s mysteries. Literature conveys many stories that express a variety of experiences of everyday life issues. Every life experience can be used to teach and help another. Gaining knowledge of how another handled a matter in question. The Burning Barn by William Faulkner is a good representation of how poetry gives a better understanding of life. In the story a young boy struggles with the morality of lying for his father’s wrong doings. Colonel Sartoris Snopes is the young boy who is haunted by his father’s behavior. He struggles within side himself of what is right and wrong. His father is an angry man who feels as though he has been wronged. He is violent and acts out against his employers by setting fires. In the beginning of the story, Sartoris is brought up on the stand in the court room to testify that his father did not start the fire which burned down his employer’s barn albeit he knew his father did commit the crime. By the end of the story Sartoris cannot bear to lie for his father anymore. Once Mr. Snopes has plans to set a fire his new employer’s barn, Sartoris warns his father’s employer. This action by Sartoris encourages its readers that there is peace, goodness and reward in being moral and good. Literature is an art
Life is truly complicated and never really figured out. We live our daily lives with blessings, trials and tribulations. We are constantly seeking out encouragement, hope and answer to life’s mysteries. Literature conveys many stories that express a variety of experiences of everyday life issues. Every life experience can be used to teach and help another. Gaining knowledge of how another handled a matter in question. The Burning Barn by William Faulkner is a good representation of how poetry gives a better understanding of life. In the story a young boy struggles with the morality of lying for his father’s wrong doings. Colonel Sartoris Snopes is the young boy who is haunted by his father’s behavior. He struggles within side himself of what is right and wrong. His father is an angry man who feels as though he has been wronged. He is violent and acts out against his employers by setting fires. In the beginning of the story, Sartoris is brought up on the stand in the court room to testify that his father did not start the fire which burned down his employer’s barn albeit he knew his father did commit the crime. By the end of the story Sartoris cannot bear to lie for his father anymore. Once Mr. Snopes has plans to set a fire his new employer’s barn, Sartoris warns his father’s employer. This action by Sartoris encourages its readers that there is peace, goodness and reward in being moral and good. Literature is an art