The Barn Burning

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twin sisters have no access to education, as they must spend their time working in the fields or at home performing familial duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room where they would presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-afternoon meal”(497). A consequence, poor health combined with inadequate opportunity results in low morale. A morale which the writer is identifying with the middle class of his times that same quality which in later years would cause his descendants to over-run the engine before putting a motor car into motion (493).
The Snope family manages to survive and find work. However, the work offers little other than a chance for survival “I reckon I’ll have a word with the man that aims to begin tomorrow owning me body and soul for the next eight months” (495). Like nomads, they had to move constantly. Due to seasons and crop rotation, in order to secure work they had to reserve land with different ...

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