Barn Burning
... In “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, the narrator, Sarty, takes himself back to his life as a small boy growing up with an abusive father. ... The boy’s father burns down the barn of every plantation they visit, and they are incessantly exiled from each new home. ... During one of the trials Abner faces for barn burning, Sarty hesitates to defend his father. ... When his father goes to burn down yet another barn, Sarty no longer complies with him. He cries out to the plantation owner in a desperate rage yelling, “Barn! Barn!