Summary Of William Faulkner's Barn Burning

William Faulkner’s work “Barn Burning” is a great example of how authors can connect his writing with the reader. I observed that Faulkner gives us the duty to figure out each situation along the story. He introduces a problem, provide the details, but doesn’t conclude with a resolution. To me, it sounds as if he wants us to draw our own outcome. For instance, when Sartoris betrays his dad, Mr. Snopes gets killed, but we don’t know for sure what happens after it. In order to satisfy our ending, we imagine what happens next with Sartoris and his family. As of for me, I would like to think that Sartoris changes his life, he stops committing crimes, and encourages his family to take a better path in life; maybe now they support and protect each other, and keep themselves more together than ever before. Moreover, I noticed that Faulkner lectures on consequences after actions. Some situations stand out on this pattern; for example, when Mr. Snopes is taken to court after destroying a barn, also when Mr. Snopes is forced to leave the town for not telling the truth in court, and when Mr. Snopes is killed on his attempt to burn de Spain barn.
We can see this reflected in the reading to where Sartoris is punished by his dad because he didn’t defend him in the court, when he is being accused of setting on fire Mr. Harris’ barn. Mr. Snopes strikes his own son on the head with the flat of his hand, and later says: “You’re getting to be a man. You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you.” Analyzing these words, Mr. Snopes is not only punishing and forcing Sartoris to cover up his crimes, but he is also threatening that if he isn’t loyal to his family, nobody will support nor defend him whenever he needs