How To Write A Summary Of Snopes

Returning home, Snopes begins to empty the kerosene from the lamp into a can. Snopes’s mother is tugging on Snopes trying to prevent another barn burning. Snopes pushes her aside and tells Sartoris to get a can of oil from the barn. Sartoris has a fantasy of running away but returns with the can of oil. Snopes tells his mother to hold Sartoris, knowing he will try to stop him from burning the barn. Snopes heads out to the barn and Sartoris begins to resist. Finally, escaping from the grasp of Snopes’s mother, Sartoris heads to Major De Spain’s home to warn him. The mother and aunt is unable to stop Sartoris. Bursting into the house of Major De Spain, he warns them about the barn. Running back onto the road, Major De Spain’s horse catches up

and nearly runs Sartoris over if he didn’t jump into a ditch. Getting back onto the road, he hears gunshots, with the assumption that his father was killed. Sartoris just keeps on running. At midnight, Sartoris is on top of a hill, grieving of his father. Waking up at dawn, Sartoris begins walking into the woods. Sartoris learns in a tragic way, what his father has been trying to tell him.
Snopes has experienced the world, having a different perspective compare to Sartoris. Sartoris is young, with little experience in the real world. Snopes understands the inequality and oppression they endure. Sartoris on the other hand, lives like they equal and free. However, both act upon the values that they believe in. Snopes acting upon his honor while Sartoris acting upon truth.
Barn Burning is an important story. Barn burning shows the importance fundamental values of freedom and equality. Without freedom and equality, “else breath were not worth the breathing”. Showing the injustices that plagued the south, it tells us that is it vital to overcome such injustices in the world. To rebel against injustice, is what Snopes had done. The most important lesson is family. Family is everything. Without family, life is difficult, life is impossible.