Sarty Snopes Essay
Faulkner's short story about Sarty Snopes and his father, Abner Snopes, is a striking example of education and service to the family. This story very clearly demonstrates an example of education in poor families where the authority of the father is immutable. This fact is emphasized in each stage of the work. In this case, Sarty, a boy of ten, has an inner struggle all the time.
Sarty Snopes is the main character of this story. His perception of the situation enables the readers to grasp the essence of the story. At first, it seems that it is only a few days of the one poor’s life from a southern family, and there is nothing interesting in this story, just because Sarty makes no conclusions from the behavior of his family. A normal ten-year-old boy, he is loyal to his family and performs exactly what …show more content…
We cannot say that Abner was left alone against the whole world, and no one offered him assistance. The scene at the court shows us that Mr. Harris honestly helped Abner Snopes when his hog got into the crops of Harris. However, Snopes did not want to accept this help, moreover, he was angry, and burned the barn. He continued to act like that. Abner took revenge on everyone, for success, for a good house, for the opportunity to hire people like him to work.
The father of Sarty Snopes lived as wolves: he did not recognize in ourselves any superiors; he believed that he did not owe anything to anybody. If Abner were a wolf, then his family, of course, was the pack in which he was the leader. That means that everybody will unquestioningly obey his will. There is no love in the pack, caring, and understanding. There is a law in the pack, and it says that the leader acts, as he needs. The wolf cubs do not need a home, education, parental custody. The wolf cubs have to be trained to kill strangers. The will and the sense of freedom are unknown to
Sarty Snopes is the main character of this story. His perception of the situation enables the readers to grasp the essence of the story. At first, it seems that it is only a few days of the one poor’s life from a southern family, and there is nothing interesting in this story, just because Sarty makes no conclusions from the behavior of his family. A normal ten-year-old boy, he is loyal to his family and performs exactly what …show more content…
We cannot say that Abner was left alone against the whole world, and no one offered him assistance. The scene at the court shows us that Mr. Harris honestly helped Abner Snopes when his hog got into the crops of Harris. However, Snopes did not want to accept this help, moreover, he was angry, and burned the barn. He continued to act like that. Abner took revenge on everyone, for success, for a good house, for the opportunity to hire people like him to work.
The father of Sarty Snopes lived as wolves: he did not recognize in ourselves any superiors; he believed that he did not owe anything to anybody. If Abner were a wolf, then his family, of course, was the pack in which he was the leader. That means that everybody will unquestioningly obey his will. There is no love in the pack, caring, and understanding. There is a law in the pack, and it says that the leader acts, as he needs. The wolf cubs do not need a home, education, parental custody. The wolf cubs have to be trained to kill strangers. The will and the sense of freedom are unknown to