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The Strategies of VictimsFaulkners short explanation Barn Burning, captures the intensity and dynamics of a father and watchword relationship. The story is set in the Old South, where the dry farming grounds of the plantations are the only places that promise hardworking men a means to relief their families. Though Faulkner presents these two man characters as vastly different, the father, Abner, and the son, Sarty, share a striking similarity. They both see themselves as victims and display the traits of a victims status. The father is a victim of social injustice and poverty. The son, on the other hand, is a victim of child abuse at the hand of his controlling and instinctive father. Faulkner sets the tone of the story by displaying the strategies of the victims and the complexity of their abuse through the cashiers voice.In Barn Burning, Faulkner portrays a boy, very nearly moral awareness, who ends up cut off from the modern world of which he is beginning to understand. The boy, Sarty begins to feel his alienation take root in connection with his father, who ought to be his moral clutches and lead Sarty into this new modern society. On account of his fathers criminal impulsiveness and a knack for starting fires, Sarty ends up, in the beginning of the story victimized and insulted by a kid, who he attacks back. His father has taught him to see others as the enemy (X.J. Kennedy). When Sartys father is charged with arson by Mr. Harris, he consequently labels him as our enemy . . . hisn and ourn (X.J. Kennedy pg. 147). The story closes with Sarty alone on at night on a hill viewing the stars. Faulkner depicts the Sartys loneliness, learned through his years of abuse and neglect. Yet on this hill, he has a moment of clarity and... ...nd a source and cause for his familys poverty, and unhappiness. Abner is in denial that his circumstances are mostly a localise result of his decisions. Instead, he hates society and the educated man. Therefore, Abner direc ts his anger towards them, fighting to regain his pride and idea of justice. Through the support of the narrators tone, these two multifariously different characters are brought together because they go through the same strategies and expressions of pain, unhappiness, injustice and abuse. Faulkners brilliant writing style and tone through the voice of the narrator creates a dynamic story that discusses several critical points, such as the struggles of victims and their strategies. Through two characters the author was able to describe the different reactions of victims, as considerably as, allow the audience to form and label the antagonist and protagonist.