Ready Reference Treatise: Barn Burning

By Raja Sharma

“Barn Burning” by William Faulkner is a short story. The story was first published in the year 1939 in Harper’s.

Since its first appearance, the story has been widely anthologized. The story is basically based on the plot of class conflicts. It describes the influence of fathers on their children, and the element of revenge that is presented from the perspective of an impressionable child. This third person perspective is highly emphatic in the story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jan 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301644155

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Barn Burning

Raja Sharma

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Ready Reference Treatise: Barn Burning

Raja Sharma

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Preface

Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

I would strongly advise all students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see