Writing Style In Faulkner's Barn Burning

The short story i will be criticizing is the barn burning. First i'm going to begin with the authors writing style. The author is known for his unique style, the reason being is for his long sentences that are always interrupted by clauses., Example is the lengthy second sentence of “Barn Burning” would be considered typical Faulkner. This style lends the authors work a sense of continuity. The author suggest that people understanding and perception are always changing, the main reason is because of the society and the people. An example is at the near end of “Barn Burning Sartoris has escaped from his father’s, but we are left with no sense of the impact that Sartoris’s escape will ultimately have on himself and his family. The authors long, sentences form sentences where you …show more content…
Next i will be going over the themes of the story. A theme i will point out is there is a loyalty to the family but they are going against loyalty of the law. In the story, Sartoris must decide whether loyalty to family or loyalty to the law is the moral way to go. For the Snopes family, especially for Sartoris’s father, family loyalty is valued more than anything. The family acts like they are outside of society and even outside the law, and their moral code is based on family loyalty rather than traditional ways of right or wrong. Snopes tells Sartoris that he should remain loyal to his “blood” or he will find himself alone forever. This threat suggests how the family is very isolated and how fully they rely on one another for aid or help. Blood is another theme is this story as when the Snopeses are leaving the courthouse at the beginning of the story, a random kid accuses Snopes of being a barn burner, when Sartoris was going around to confront him, the kid hits Sartoris and made his face bloody. He kept the blood on his face throughout the whole drive for a mark of pride for the family name. I like the story a lot a bunch of themes people use in today's word and a good