None of them are too happy through all the circumstances that occur. There is a lot of revenge throughout, especially the father always going against whatever happened, and the older brother was going with the father the whole time. The younger brother symbolizes going with the flow at first and then finally breaking away from his family and finally living the life he wants not what someone else wants. Also the father early in the story beats him and pretty much says never go against family.
You got to learn. His father wa He was so hurt that he did not even allow his mother to wipe off the blood on his face, which was the result of boys hitting him. The boys called Sarty's father a Barn Burner, as he always used to burn Barnes and moved from place to place.
Upon his father being called a barn burner Sarty got into a fight with those boys. Mike in "The Vigilante" is a mild mannered southern white with racist beliefs that are carried out on a black man. The towns people gather annually to choose through a lottery the victim of a violent stoning for the harvest, when a prominent citizen Tess is chosen she tries to over turn the verdict, she is killed. Tucker is the son of a wealthy farmer and is under constant torment by his neighbor Anvil, he cracks and attempts to kill Anvil in a brutal attack with hay forks, Anvil avoids death and realizes Tuckers deep rooted evil.
Mike along with the men of his village decide to take the law into their own hands against a black man, they beat and kill him then hang him from a tree.
Now the man who is dead was a poor dependent of mine who worked for us as a field labourer on our farm… and one day in a fit of drunken passion he got into a quarrel with one of our domestic servants and slew him. My father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch, and then sent to Athens to ask of a diviner what he should do with him. Meanwhile he never attended to him and took no care about him, for he regarded him as a murderer; and thought that no great harm would be done even if he did die… They say that he did not kill him, and that if he did, dead man was but a murderer, and I ought not to take any notice, for that a son is impious who prosecutes a father.
Important Quotes Explained. William Faulkner and Barn Burning Background. Characters Abner Snopes. Popular pages: Barn Burning. Take a Study Break. You would have told him. You got to learn. It was as if the blow and the following calm, outrageous voice still rang, repercussed, divulging nothing to him save the terrible handicap of being young, the light weight of his few years, just heavy enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to be ordered by not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it, to resist it and try to change the course of its events.
And now the boy saw the prints of the stiff foot on the doorjamb and saw them appear on the pale rug behind the machinelike deliberation of the foot which seemed to bear or transmit twice the weight which the body compassed. Nigger sweat. Maybe he wants to mix some white sweat with it. He saw the man in spectacles sitting at the plank table and he did not need to be told this was a Justice of the Peace; he sent one glare of fierce, exultant partisan defiance at the man in collar and cravat now, whom he had seen but twice before in his life, who wore on his face an expression not of rage but of amazed unbelief which the boy could not have known was at the incredible circumstance of being sued by one of his own tenants.
At least you sent a nigger before! But there was no glare behind him now and he sat now, his back toward what he had called home for four days anyhow, his face toward the dark woods which he would enter when breath was strong again, small, shaking steadily in the chill darkness, hugging himself into the remainder of his thin, rotten shirt, the grief and despair now no longer terror and fear but just grief and despair. My father, he thought.
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