The Similarities Between Laura And Sartoris From Barn Burning
Coming from different lives starting with the financial standpoint and the relationship between the main characters and the secondary characters Laura and Sartoris are quite similar. For Laura from The Garden Party and Sartoris from Barn Burning, coming of age comes with curiosity and questions to sort out their many growing ideas. Laura and Sartoris have always been influenced by the older people closest to them, but when they are exposed to the real outside world they begin to see the emotions of other people and the way that they act and react towards different situations. Laura and Sartoris begin to make decisions on their own, that have been effected by the people outside their normal encounters like their family. Coming from different
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Being so young they still get easily distracted by their own thoughts and the thoughts they know others have of them. They were easily persuaded in the ways of thinking by their family, but now being exposed to the outside world they are starting to think for themselves and for others not only in their family. Sartoris was distracted in the start of the story by the smell of cheese and meat that he remembered from his past. This would have been an important scene for Sartoris if it was the first time that his father had been accused for burning another family’s barn down. Sartoris already knows what he has to say to defend his father because he has been in this situation more than once, but when he is put on the stand he says nothing at all because he is having second thoughts and hopes that it is his last time. Laura gets easily distracted after worrying so much about the death of one of the people from the village, when her mother gives her a hat and tells her how good she looks so that it will keep her quiet until after the party. “The hat is yours. It’s made for you. It’s much too young for me. I have never seen you look such a picture. Look at yourself!” (Mansfield, 11) After Laura’s mother says this to her, she receives many compliments at the garden party and this distracts her from the idea of the death. Both characters are still young and can be still easily persuaded because they aren’t sure yet on which side they want to be on, either the ideas of their parents or their own
Being so young they still get easily distracted by their own thoughts and the thoughts they know others have of them. They were easily persuaded in the ways of thinking by their family, but now being exposed to the outside world they are starting to think for themselves and for others not only in their family. Sartoris was distracted in the start of the story by the smell of cheese and meat that he remembered from his past. This would have been an important scene for Sartoris if it was the first time that his father had been accused for burning another family’s barn down. Sartoris already knows what he has to say to defend his father because he has been in this situation more than once, but when he is put on the stand he says nothing at all because he is having second thoughts and hopes that it is his last time. Laura gets easily distracted after worrying so much about the death of one of the people from the village, when her mother gives her a hat and tells her how good she looks so that it will keep her quiet until after the party. “The hat is yours. It’s made for you. It’s much too young for me. I have never seen you look such a picture. Look at yourself!” (Mansfield, 11) After Laura’s mother says this to her, she receives many compliments at the garden party and this distracts her from the idea of the death. Both characters are still young and can be still easily persuaded because they aren’t sure yet on which side they want to be on, either the ideas of their parents or their own