Excelsior Barn Burning Exploring Themes

Question Description

Read Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” carefully and note the “theme” you feel speaks most clearly to you from the story. Prepare to discuss what you feel and why. Note that some common themes include: “loyalty to family vs. loyalty to law”; Sarty’s “search for peace”; “good vs. evil”; what it means to “do the right thing”; “innocence vs. guilt.” and, like some other stories we’ve read, “coming of age.”

Faulkner, William (1939) Barn Burning (Links to an external site.). Harper’s Magazine. Retrieved from William Faulkner Books.com at http://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/...

Discuss what you feel is the strongest theme of Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” and why you feel this way. Make sure you include at least one quote from the story to “back up” your assertion(s).