Barn Burning

In many works or literature, a child plays an all-important part. The child's point of view can be conveyed in such a way that the work will be more effective. In the short story Barn Burning by William Faulkner, Sarty Snopes is the son who is in conflict with his father's opinions. Sarty’s views on this conflict become evident as the work progresses. The effectiveness of Sarty’s point of view is shown during …

…was defeated. Sarty Snopes was torn between allegiance to his father and allegiance to morality. It can be easily seen that Sarty is morality and Abner is loyalty. If Sarty were to become loyal, then he would not be true to himself, but if he stayed with the moral way then he would be true to himself. Sarty's point of view had shown that morality would have prevailed, and the conflict would have been resolved.