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绮惧搧璧勬枡
The Character of Sarty in
Barn Burning
Sarty is a little boy in the novel
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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
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s action of burning the landholder
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s barn was wrong, and he wanted to
stop his father
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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
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t stop Sarty
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s love to his father. After being beaten by his father, he
understood
that
he
was
too
young
to
do
anything,
he
couldn
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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,
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We can both ride now.
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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,
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You done the best you
could.
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This
sentence
expressed
that
the
father
was
a
very
good
people
in
Sarty
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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,
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He was a