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According to your text William Faulkner's " . . . complex style . . . [is] . . . consistent with his difficult objective- to keep continuously in focus the immediate character of 'the human heart in conflict' while invoking the past which is always present with us. Explain how this is revealed in "Barn Burning.” In the story there are two character of which whole play this role and that is Colonel Satoris Snopes also as Sarty and his father Abner Snopes which whom is very violent and tries to harm others that try to prove him wrong in any way try to hurt him and his family. Snopes is always patronizing Satoris telling him that he needs to take things like men in the story there is a part where Satoris face is bleeding his father does not let him or his mother clean his face as a lesson to keep “loyal” to his family. However, I believe that Snopes had a similar past as child that is why he is always treating his family like he does. The …show more content…
Comment on his writing in "Big Two-Hearted River" from a journalistic point of view. This story takes place after a war and the veteran Nick Adams comes back, but sees that his town has been demolished by the war. However, in reality the city or town is fine nothing has been destroyed its only in his mind that the town is destroyed nothing seem to be right after all he grew up, but nothing is the same it feels empty. Virtually, the same story as herbs when he goes back home its empty compared to the war. Nick’s story is very similar to others that come back from war they have a girlfriend they end it and question it then they remember the girl they met during war, but they end it because it might not work and the when Nick come back its really no the same. When he goes out to camp he see the grass hopper how they blend in with the earth and hide very similar to what Nick is doing hiding out form the world just wait until they come out, but whose knows how long that might

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