Personal Journal Response: Barn Burning

Journal Response: Barn Burning
William Faulkner style’s stands out one more time with this work. It is very remarkable the effort he does by implementing symbolisms, visual descriptions, and the lack of certainty in his sentences, as if he wants us to imagine and figure out what he really wants us to think in that moment. For instance, at the end, it seems that he wants us to find out what happened to Sartoris and his family after he escaped and his dad got killed. Through his fiction, he shows a climax with no resolution. In fact, his purpose is to give the reader the duty to conclude a lesson from each scenario. In addition, the plot he makes the audience inferred is very problematic. Faulkner presents two points of view in which the spectator needs to choose the most upstanding. In this work there are two issues in discuss: loyalty to your family vs honesty to yourself and others. He introduces these two topics through Sartoris being loyal to his family, committing crimes commanded by his dad and Sartoris telling the truth to the authorities about what his dad has made
Family is supposed to be the foundation of values and guidelines for us to suit in society, but as time goes by we see the decrease of the accurate purpose of this affiliation. Nowadays, family is one of the main causes of the issues in society. Individuals behave just as they have been taught to and act with the values they have learned. Crimes among us encouraged by feelings like hatred, anger, or sadness are usually result of a bad foundation. However, this could be a relative problem, in where culture proposes a model of family. As an example, family in Asia can have a different perspective than family in America of how it should be consisted of. Nonetheless, they all lead to the same responsibility of guiding each individual along their lives to be the person they need to be for this