![]() Have fun with it, or take it too seriously, or both. It invites you to face all of the the big questions in life. Opening an email switches on your brain, opening a journal switches on your heart.īurn After Writing is a personal journal encompassing a collection of gently probing questions, mind games, thought experiments and homework assignments - all on your favourite subject: yourself. You need to stop keying and start writing.Įvery future generation that follows will treasure your handwritten efforts infinitely more than a million status updates. You need to stop texting and start calling. When it comes to speaking from the heart, you need to turn off the wi-fi and pick up a pen. He doesn't turn around.Buy the book at: .uk / īuy the TEEN edition at: .uk / He starts walking toward the woods in front of him. The whippoorwills (birds) are singing and it's almost morning. He falls asleep and feels better when he wakes up. He mourns the loss of his father (who he seems to assume is dead), but is no longer afraid. He hears three gunshots and soon after, behind him, sees the red glow of the de Spain barn on fire.Īt midnight Sarty is on top of a hill. Sarty jumps into a ditch and then returns to the road. De Spain is right behind him, about to run him over. He's only able to say "Barn!" a few times, and then he's on the run again. Sarty breaks free and runs to the de Spain house. His father and brother realize that Sarty is planning on alerting de Spain, and they leave him behind, held tight in his mother's arms. He realizes his father is planning to burn the de Spain barn. After dinner Sarty hears his mother trying to stop his father from doing something. Sarty, his father, and his brother spend some time in town and don't go home until the sun has almost set. The Justice decides that Abner is responsible for the damage to the rug, but he reduces the fee to ten bushels. Abner sends him back to the wagon, but he stays in the store to see what happens. Sarty blurts out that his father isn't guilty of burning any barns. ![]() Sarty doesn't realize that Abner is suing de Spain to have the fee of twenty bushels reduced. He goes with his father into a store, and sees that a Justice of the Peace Court is in session. When he leaves, Sarty tells Abner that they shouldn't give de Spain any corn at all.Īfter working hard all week, Sarty goes with his family to town that Saturday. He tells Abner he's going to charge him twenty extra bushels of corn to pay for the hundred-dollar rug. De Spain shows up shortly after, insulting Abner and complaining that the rug is "ruined" (62). Early the next morning, Abner wakes Sarty and the two of them return the rug to de Spain. Abner sets his two daughters to cleaning it, and then dries it in front of the fire. ![]() de Spain, has the rug dropped off at Abner's shack. Later that day, the owner of the rug and mansion, Mr. In the yard, Abner deliberately steps in some fresh horse poop, forces his way into the mansion, and tracks the poop all over the white rug in the front room. He thinks his father can't possibly hurt people who live in a house like that. When Sarty sees the owner's fancy, white mansion he feels like everything just might be all right after all. Abner wants to talk to the owner and he takes Sarty with him. The next day the Snopes arrive at their new home, a shack on the farm where they will be working as tenant farmers. Then he tells him that the most important thing is to stand by your family. His father accuses him of being on the verge of betraying him in court. After Sarty falls asleep, his father wakes him up and tells Sarty to follow him. The wagon is already loaded with their broken possessions. Sarty, his older brother, and his father get into the family wagon, where his mother, aunt, and two sisters are waiting. Sarty tries to chase the kid but his father stops him. On the way out of the courthouse a kid calls Sarty "Barn Burner!" and knocks him down, twice (16). Snopes to leave the county and never come back. Harris realize they are putting the young boy in a bad position, and they let him off the hook. Sarty is called up to testify against his father, and he knows he's going to have to lie and say his father didn't burn the barn. His father, Abner Snopes, is in court, accused of burning down Mr. A hungry boy named Sarty craves the meat and cheese in the store. "Barn Burning" (set in about 1895) opens in a country store, which is doubling as a Justice of the Peace Court.
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