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Similarities Between A Rose For Emily And Barn Burning By Faulkner

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The desires of one's inner thoughts and feelings can create a bright future or a tragic ending to a life. In the short stories of Faulkner's, Rose for Emily and 'Barn Burning Emily, Sartoris, and Abner all go througbroller coaster emotions that affect their actions. Emily falls in love and refuses to give it up whif Sartoris batles his father Abner in morals to do what is right or stay loyal to his father's revenge. With that, Faulker's main literature elements between' Rose for Emily 'and Barn Burning'are his character descriptions, inner-self conflict, and sympathy, for theme, However, each story contains a different purpose for those literature elements. Aperiod To begin, Faulkner uses character descriptions to help the reader understand …show more content…

Finally, Faulkner's last literature element in A Rose For Emily is the theme of sympathy. Throughout the whole story, whenever Emily had something terrible happen to her the townspeople would say "Poor Emily" (43). In addition, with the loss of her father and the strict policy of how no one was good enough for Emily the townspeople felt "really sorry for her" (Faulkner 42). At the end of the story, she ends up killing Homer. Faulkner makes the reader feel sympathy towards Emily because "she was a young girl that just wanted to be loved and to love and to have a husband and a family" (Faulkner 47) even though she killed a man. Equally important, Faulkner's short story of Barn Burning also explores his literature element in character description of Sartoris and Abner. Faulkner describes Sartoris traits as being honest and doing what is right, while Abner is evil and cold-hearted. For example, in the beginning of the short story, Sartoris stays "loyal to his family and to his father" along with "[burning] barns and to lie on the stand for him" (customwriting). On the other hand, Abner "is a cold and abusive man and does not respect nor is he afraid of the law" (Customwriting). These traits Faulkner has given to Satoris and Abner create an understanding as to why they behave the way they …show more content…

Sartoris debates whether or not he should betray the family and do what is right or stay with them knowing what they are doing is wrong. Meanwhile, Abner wants justice but can not do it the right way, rather do it in a very evil manner to seek revenge on all those that did him wrong. Finally, Faulkner's last literacy element in Barn Burning is having sympathy for betrayal. At the end, Sartoris makes a decision to either get the oil for his father

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