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Barn Burning   William Faulkner Background Though it seemed that the slavery system ended with the passing of the Civil War, it did not really disappeared, for the discrimination towards the black people still existed. The article was written after the American Civil War, which ended in 1865. Before the war, the Northern America was an industrialized society, while Southern America was a society depending on plantation and slavery system existed. Characteristics of the Southern America Old South —plantation, slavery system, romanticism, close to the nature and the life was full of joy. New South —the southern part failed in the Civil War, the southerners were influenced by the way of living style in northern part, of course ,they could not accept it, and they still went on to be absorbed in their passing living style, they were not willing to face their realistic lives. Style long and embedded(嵌入式) sentences, complex syntax complex modifying elements placed after the nouns sound very casual or informal sometimes vague reference pronouns ? at the store ? moving the house ? arriving at the house of De Spain ? about the rug going to the store again ? Sarty went to warn Major De. Spain Plot The first scene happened in the store, Abner was accused of having burnt the barn and his son Sarty was forced to lie. From the psychological struggle of Sarty when his father ask him to tell lies, we can see that Sarty suffered a lot between his honesty and his consideration of his father’s feeling. The second scene was on their way to find a new house. That night they camped, Sarty observed the small bunch of fire made by Abner, but he could not figure out the real reason. In fact, Abner was an army desert（开小差）, he was quite afraid to be watched even after the war. So whenever and wherever he made a fire, he made it in this way. Abner formed in his mind that he would fight against people in different class, that is the ri