"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner

"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner is kind of a sad novel. I could never imagine my parents putting me in a situation where I would have to keep a deep dark secret that my parents had that they were committing a crime. And to beat it all that they would say that If I didn’t keep the secret and told it that I would be betraying blood and I would ultimately not have them as a family and would have nobody to turn to if I ever needed help. That is a terrible thing to put your child through I think. It is also terrible that Sarty feels that he has to defend his father when all of the people are calling his father terrible names and yelling at him when he is going to court for burning Mr. Harris’ barn. Sarty is really fighting his fathers battle. I was happy to read that since he felt that he needed to do the right thing that right when he was about to confess his fathers guilt to the court that the court dismissed him and he was free to go and still had his fathers respect and loyalty.