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The Character of Sarty in Barn Burning Sarty is a little boy in the novel，he is young and naive. His father Abner hated the landholder, and he burned the barn of the landholder to express his hatred to the landholder.
Sarty played a contradictory role in the novel. On one hand, he thought his father’s action of burning the landholder’s barn was wrong, and he wanted to stop his father’s action. On the other hand, it was his father who did the wrong things, and the father had his own reasons.
Sarty had to bear a lot of pain of what his father had done, their families had to move continuously, and he was called barn burner. He complained his father. He thought his father was a stiff man. But, all the things that his father did couldn’t stop Sarty’s love to his father. After being beaten by his father, he understood that he was too young to do anything, he couldn’t change the course of the evens. When Abner and Sarty rode the mule, Sarty felt some joy between father and son. Sarty said to his father, “We can both ride now.” This reflected his love to his father. When the father ruined the rug and was called to pay twenty bushels of corn, Sarty said to his father, “You done the best you could.” This sentence expressed that the father was a very good people in Sarty’s heart.
At the end of the story, the father was dead, Sarty was very sad, but in Sarty heart, he thought his father was a brave man. After the grief and despair, Sarty decided to move forward. There is a sentence in the novel, “He was a
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little stiff.” I think this sentence has two meaning. The one is that Sarty was stiff because of the cold weather; the other is that he wanted to become the same person of his father. I think a lot of important features of Abner is reflected by Sarty’s thought and view, and this is very special.
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