Barn Burning lecture (looking at it from my prospective)

Barn Burning is a very entertaining story to say the least.  It’s just funny how Ab acts in this short story.  I mean you have to look at him from two prospective; you have to look at it from the view point of Abs.  He is white trash obviously and he has trouble following authority.  He hates the fact that he is of the low class, he has a certain pride to him and shows throughout the story.  Ab is a white man in the low class during the aftermath of slavery and he feels inferior to these other whites that are rich and he is destruct over it.  From Abs point of view he illustrates the expression of pride.  Pride is his key weakness, because it's gets him into trouble.  One example of this is when he destroys Major De Spain’s rug by washing it with lye soap after purposely stepping on the rug with tracks of mud just because he is of higher class.  That is one way of looking at Ab the character, another way to look at him is taking it from most common readers prospective and just deem him a lowlife that just has serious anger issues and is too strung on his own color.  I say that because of his statement about Major De Spain saying, "his house was built off nigger sweat; maybe it isn't white enough to suit him".  This man obviously does not deserve anything that he cries about.  He enlisted in the military and ended up stealing horses and getting shot, so after reading this i was done with even feeling sympathy for a man that almost manipulates his own son to believing in his own practices that are clearly defiant against the law.

Colonel on the other hand shows a lot of promise and is very different from his father.  Colonel is struggling with his moral system along with his father’s way of doing things.  His father is a very vague and broken man.  His only way to express himself is to destroy barns by utterly burning them down.  He's quite the serial arsonist wouldn't you say.  Or maybe I should call him the Robin Hood of white trash.  I mean you got to hand o him the guy is very, very persistent with his work, even if it generates chaos.  Anyway back to Colonel, who is seen as the image of purity, he is the cry for help to me.  He wants to do the right thing but he is always challenged by his father to do the complete opposite of what his heart tells him.  Colonel knows right from wrong but he is confused to take his father’s side even thou he knows what he is doing is wrong or turn against his own blood and do the right and lawful thing.  In the end of the story we see that he chooses to break away from his father and his family and go off the only instinct that he knows, which is good.  He speaks up and tells Major de Spain what his father’s plans were and so ends the story.