Choices We Have to MakeSarty Snopes in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" is a great example of someone who had to choose between two paths. He could stay with his family, his blood, what he knew was evil, or take the right path but be alone. At first Sarty tries and wants to stay with his father but realizes that his father will never change. Sarty chooses to escape his family for good. His father, Abner, has done so much damage to Sarty's life that he will never go back. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay Early in the book, we learn that Sarty is watching a trial. "He could not see the table where the judge sat and before which was his father and his father's enemy (our enemy he thought in despair; ours! mine and his both! He's my father!)." (3) At this time Sarty is on his father's side. In the first paragraph, we see that Sarty is still a young boy: "He couldn't see the table." (3) He is still too young to really understand what is happening. He thinks that since family is blood, he must be by their side no matter what. When he says “our enemy…. mine and his" (3) aims to show that at present, Sarty considers his father's enemies as his enemies also because they are part of the family. Sarty starts talking about how he and his family jump from place to place to go wherever his greatest wants. go. “He never knew where they were going. None of them ever did it or ever asked... It is likely that his father had already arranged to harvest on another farm before him... Again, he had to stop . He (the father) always did it. (7) We see Sarty knowing that what his father is doing is wrong. He knows that wherever they go, his father will burn down the owner's barn before they leave. “before he…” (7) here he hesitates, not wanting to say before burning down a barn. This suggests that Sarty doesn't really want to believe the kind of man his father is and it hurts him to say what his father does. Sarty and his family decided to find a place to sleep for the night by going to another house. There are many examples that show how the Snopes family acts and encourages Sarty to want to leave his family. “The nights were still cool and there was a fire against it, from a rail lifted from a nearby fence and cut into lengths, a small fire.” (7) Instead of picking up fallen branches from trees, they choose to damage other people's property by using a fence rail to start a fire. The next line goes into more detail to describe and show Abner's character. “A small fire, neat, almost petty, a clever fire: such fires were his father's habit” (7) this shows the character of Abner, always obliged to do what he wants and not caring about no one around him. Even though the night was cold, Abner only made a small fire, he refused to make a big fire. This may be because when Abner was hiding during the war, he always lit small fires so no one would find him and since he is a determined character and refuses to change, he keeps lighting small fires. Next “Taller, the boy could have noticed it and wondered why not a big one” (7) This shows that once again Sarty questions his father's judgment, he wants to know why his oldest will not do a bigger fire for his family especially since he is burning someone else's property. Later that night, Abner hits Sarty. “You were about to tell them. You would have told him. He doesn't have.