Category: Barn Burning

African-American characters play critical roles in the work of William Faulkner. Not only do they often play irreplaceable roles in the narrative  as in the cases of Dilsey Gibson in The Sound and the Fury and Lucas Beauchamp in Intruder in the Dust  but how they are treated in the works also often…

Good literature is hard to come by but Tim Gillespies article Why Literature Matters gives a great insight as to what good literature should be. The three short stories that I have read all demonstrate traits of good literature. The three short stories that will be discussed are Barn Burning by William Faulkner, Cathedral by…

Zender, Karl F. Character and Symbol in Barn Burning. College Literature, vol. 16, no. 1, 1989, pp. 4859. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25111801. Karl Zender explains there is an obvious realism in Faulkners story but the modernist twist throughout is the symbolism of the irony which causes the reader to depart from realism to some deeper meaning. Thus,…

The short story, Barn Burning by William Faulkner is full of literary devices. The story is about a family who moves from farm to farm to get by in life and the father burns down barns, hence the name Barn Burning. This leads the little boy in this short story to decide if he wants…

The title Barn Burning lets me know that the story will revolve itself around the fact that a particular barn is essentially burned and who or what might have done it. The beginning of the storys tone is one that is very mundane as a son is set to testify against his father of crimes…