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Barn Burning   William Faulkner;Background;Characteristics of the Southern America;Style;? 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;The third scene is when the boy saw the splendid house of Major De Spain, he lost himself in the imagination of the wonderful life. When they arrived at Major De Spain’s house, Abner did not pay any attention to the old nigger who was the house—keeper of Major De Spain, he just went straight into the house and made the clean rug rather dirty with his dusted shoes. The old man wanted to stop Abner, but he dared not to touch him.;The fourth scene is that when the rider with collarless and even bareheaded came to Abner’s house and ask him to compensate for the rug he had destroyed, but Abner did not care about it. ;The fifth scene is that Abner claim to the official that the compensation was too much for him. So he once came to the store. There, Sarty defended his father by telling that “ he did not burn it…” and he also suggested to his father that there was no need to pay anything with regard to De Spain’s requirement. ;On one hand, Sarty wanted to take his father’s order and step to be adversary（对手、敌手） to the rich. However, Sarty finally decided to take his own idea, that is to be justice to the world, but he did not realize that life would still be no different even if he struggled against the way his father had always been. Because they were living in a society that was filled with unjust and discrimination as well as depress upon the lower class.;Theme