Sarty and Abner

... Sarty and Abner Sarty is an illiterate, ten-year-old boy who is fighting an extraordinary internal battle. In Barn Burning, Sarty's father Abner is the person who burns barns. Sarty doesn't know why his father does this but has come to realize it needs to stop, somehow. Abner is what was called a sharecropper. Sharecroppers will work for a plantation owner in exchange for room and board, some of the crops he raises, and sometimes money. Abner has a flagrant disrespect for the plantation owners he works for. He has been burning their barns down at the slightest hint of a feud ever since his son, Sarty can remember. When Sarty and his family arrive at what is to be their last, or at least Abner and Sarty's last, sharecropping venture, Abner shows his disregard for the plantation owner, Major de Spain. Abner purposefully stepped in manure then smeared it all over Major

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