Barn Burning
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This story was a little hard for me to follow along, because most of what I have read in my life has been either out of a textbook or from a Stephen King novel or any book or article by the wonderful Hunter S. Thompson. However, after reading through it carefully, some parts more than once, I was able to understand it. It was that dialog that got me the most, just the way the people talked.
From what I've gathered, the story is about a father named Abner Snopes who is kind of a 'low-life' who has a wife and four kids. He has a young boy, whose name is Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or 'Sarty' as his father calls him. Unlike his father, for being a young boy, he seems to have his head on straight, and almost seems to know the difference between right and wrong. He also has an older son and two twin girls. By the way they are described, the girls are rather large.
In the beginning of the story, Abner has a hog that keeps getting loose because Abner has failed to fix the fencing that keeps the hog in its pen...