SOURCE
Bertonneau, Thomas. "An Overview of "Barn Burning""
Literature Resource Center. Gale, 1999. Web. 26 Sept. 2012.
LIT CRIT
Thomas Bertonneau, in Exploring Short Stories, Gale Research,
1998, says that the main idea of William Faulkner's Barn
Burning is human imitation and the desire to be like
others.
*** When a person admires someone they will imitate them in
attempt to be liked or accepted.
Q: “But Sarty now
understands that the blood-bond entails his acquiescence in his father's
violence and his own submission to an authority whose demonic character he
begins to recognize.”
***When a person is unable to imitate someone they admire, there
is a natural tendency to seek revenge on that person.
Q: “If Smith then fails
to become Jones by appropriating Jones's richer life, and so on, then Smith
might instead seek a kind of revenge against Jones for being
as Smith sees it
unjustly and unbearably
superior”
“Abner's resentment,
pumped up by his own provocative misbehavior, now incites him to the usual
climax, setting fire to his rival's barn.”
Erin Williams – Period 3
Source
McDonald Hal, in explicator 61.1 (2002): 46-8
Literature Research Center. Web 27 September 2012
Thesis
Hal McDonald, in the explicator 61.1, 2002, claims that although Faulkner's regional dialect is generally perfect, he slips up on some regional dialect in the short story Barn Burning.
When spoken in the context Faulkner uses it is not common in southern speech to add an "h" before it.
Q "although characteristic of some rural Southern dialects, nonetheless strikes the ear of a Southern reader (particularly those of us who live in Appalachia, where "hit" is a familiar feature on the dialectal landscape) as strangely inauthentic, for even though the construction is used by Southern speakers, it is not used in quite the manner in which Sarty uses it here."
A native speaker would not place a "h" in front of it unless in an accented position.
Q "when Sarty says to himself, "He aims for me to lie [...] and I will have to do hit," he adds the h to "it" in an unaccented position, where no native Southern speaker would actually pronounce it."
Hannah Stuart
Bertonneau, Thomas. "An Overview of "Barn Burning""
Literature Resource Center. Gale, 1999. Web. 26 Sept. 2012.
LIT CRIT
Thomas Bertonneau, in Exploring Short Stories, Gale Research,
1998, says that the main idea of William Faulkner's Barn
Burning is human imitation and the desire to be like
others.
*** When a person admires someone they will imitate them in
attempt to be liked or accepted.
Q: “But Sarty now
understands that the blood-bond entails his acquiescence in his father's
violence and his own submission to an authority whose demonic character he
begins to recognize.”
***When a person is unable to imitate someone they admire, there
is a natural tendency to seek revenge on that person.
Q: “If Smith then fails
to become Jones by appropriating Jones's richer life, and so on, then Smith
might instead seek a kind of revenge against Jones for being
as Smith sees it
unjustly and unbearably
superior”
“Abner's resentment,
pumped up by his own provocative misbehavior, now incites him to the usual
climax, setting fire to his rival's barn.”
Erin Williams – Period 3
Source
McDonald Hal, in explicator 61.1 (2002): 46-8
Literature Research Center. Web 27 September 2012
Thesis
Hal McDonald, in the explicator 61.1, 2002, claims that although Faulkner's regional dialect is generally perfect, he slips up on some regional dialect in the short story Barn Burning.
When spoken in the context Faulkner uses it is not common in southern speech to add an "h" before it.
Q "although characteristic of some rural Southern dialects, nonetheless strikes the ear of a Southern reader (particularly those of us who live in Appalachia, where "hit" is a familiar feature on the dialectal landscape) as strangely inauthentic, for even though the construction is used by Southern speakers, it is not used in quite the manner in which Sarty uses it here."
A native speaker would not place a "h" in front of it unless in an accented position.
Q "when Sarty says to himself, "He aims for me to lie [...] and I will have to do hit," he adds the h to "it" in an unaccented position, where no native Southern speaker would actually pronounce it."
Hannah Stuart