Barn Burning: An Endless Circle

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and gave them opportunities to
prosper where others could only dream about. This same honor seemed to carry on
to those who shared the names of the great war heroes. “‘Hey', the Justice said.
‘Talk louder. Colonel Sartoris? I reckon anybody named for Colonel Sartoris in
this county can't help but tell the truth, can they?'” (Kennedy 163).
On the other hand, the Snopses are viewed as dishonorable. During the
war, Ab Snopse was considered a mercenary for serving both sides of the way. “
...nights passed during those four years in the woods hiding from all men, blue
and gray, with his strings of horses (captured horses, he called them)” (165).
Ab stole horses from the North and the South, to earn a living. He was even
shot by a confederate soldier, “His father turned, and he followed the stiff
black coat, the wiry figure walking a little stiffly from where a Confederate
provost's man's musket ball had taken him in the heel on a stolen horse thirty
years ago...”(164). Actions ...

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