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Barn Burning In this, another story written by William Faulkner in 1939, he uses a great deal of language to paint a vivid picture of life in the mythical county of Yoknapataupha, Mississippi. This story is recounted from The memories of a man named Colonel Sartoris Snopes (named after Colonel Sartoris whom his father served in the Civil War). His father was obviously a man of little or no education who had developed an attitude in life of serving himself and no one else. He, at any perceived or real injustice always took matters into his own hands. The story begins with him on trial for burning a neighbors barn after sending a black man over for his hog and actually warning the man that hay and wood burn. Shortly thereafter the neighbors barn burned and the story opens in a court of the Justice of the Peace. The then young boy is remembering all this and the details of the court room which was actually a storeroom in a grocery apparently based on the tin goods stored in the room. The man whose barn was burned asks that the boy testify and the judge is incredulous as this was not proper decorum in that time. Finally, the man relents and says the boy does not have to