From the beginning of the story Barn Burning, Sartoris the son of Snope has witnessed his dad burn barns. Snopes’s physical presence fully reflects the inner corruption and love of revenge that he embodies. His leg, shot in the war when he was stealing Confederate horses for personal profit, drags lamely behind him, a show of his corrupt inner life. Because Snopes is wholly unable to express himself articulately or intelligently, his sole recourses for self-expression are violence and cruelty. Sartoris dad lies in all the courts he has attended with his father Snope and his makes him lie too. He knows his father is doing something wrong yet he just never says anything because he does not want his dad to get in trouble. In this case, the protagonist Sartoris is living a world of guilt knowing what his own father does but cannot put his own family in danger. In addition, the father puts more ideas in Sartoris head that makes him feel even guiltier by stating that if he does not remain loyal to …show more content…
Readers would have felt bad for what occurred to Snope in the past and would understand why he would burn barns. But since this was written by the son’s point of view people see everything in a different way. For example, you can have a first-person narrator who can be the detective or someone close to him in this case Sartoris. This makes the reader more familiar with the person through whose eyes he is looking and allows him to become more involved in the case. Then there is the possibility of a third-person narrator, in this case Snope who can have a limited view, which means that the reader gets only a subjective description of everything from the point of view of one of the protagonists. Each point of view has its pros and cons. In this situation, first point of view is important when it comes to crime because when its third person you’re getting someone else’s perspective of the