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Barn Burning At the beginning of the story Faulkner introduced the readers to Sarty who is the main character of “Barn Burning”. Saty is faced with the decision of either going along with his father or family beliefs and his own values? “I could keep on, he thought. I could run on and on and never look back, never need to see his face again” (199). Sarty wanted to run away and leave his family and his pain behind. Faulkner uses detail and inciting force to show a moral dilemma. The other main character in this story is Sarty’s father, Abner Snopes. Abner is an angry man and inconsiderate man who had hate and detestation for almost anybody who is not “blood kin”, and is a tyrannical father who controlled everyone in his family. His wife and children are in the grips of that tyranny. Faulkner uses detail to draw the readers into the story. In the first paragraph Faulkner introduced the readers to S