Character Analysis: Hello Professor Nelson

Hello Professor Nelson, According to the story, Abner always managed to quickly get a new house after he burned someone’s barn. “It was always somewhere, always a house of sorts waiting for them a day or two days or even three days away. Likely his father had already arranged to make a crop on another farm before he...” (pgs. 1857-1858). It seemed that burning barns was his way of avoiding the punishments from others. He burned de Spain’s barn after the judge ruled that he had to pay the ten bushels of corn. He burned Harris’s barn because he charged a dollar for the return of his hog. His anger must have come as a result to a negative experience with authority in the Civil War.