Barn Burning

This story was set in the late 1930's.
During this time, there was strong racism across the South.
William Faulkner sets the scene in a store that had a cheese smelled odor.
He uses very childish language all the way through the story.
This is because the perspective of the story is told from Abner Snope's son, Colonel Sartoris Snopes.
It opens with Abner Snopes' hog escaping into his neighbors yard and after paying a dollar pound fee he decides to torch his barn. Then he is faced with the court telling him he has to leave the country. This is barely the crime he would've had to endure had he been found guilty of burning down the barn, which could not be proved. But, he packs up his family and finds work as a tenant farmer as an employee of Major de Spain and his wife Lula. Shortly after moving in, Abner tracks horse droppings into their house, on a rug and is ordered by Major de Spain to clean it. At this point, Abner orders his daughters to do it and they end up damaging it beyond repair. Abner is then fined to twenty bushels of corn to make up for the cost of the rug. But, then it is reduced to just ten bushels by a Justice of Peace. Abner, feeling upset and outraged because he is wronged again, plans to light Major de Spain's barn on fire. Colonel Sartoris could not stand by and watch this happen again. He warned de Spain of his father's plans to burn down his barn and fleed in the direction of his father. However, Major de Spain follows and Sartoris jumps into a ditch to get out of the way and hears three gun shots. He assumes that his father and brother are possibly dead. The boy decides not to return to his family and he ends up living his life alone.

There were many racial slurs and it was very clear that the story was set in times when race was an issue and there were many inequalities not only between races, but also between the different genders.
Abner feels empowered when he treats his family bad, especially the women.
The writer also uses many controversial terms like, "Where is the nigger?" I found this offensive because I don't really like the word or even hearing it because it makes me cringe.
To believe that our nation was like that at one point in time is unimaginable to me.
I don't understand the hatred amongst different people.
He does provide vivid descriptions. Like on page 421, "One of them drew from the jumbled wagon bed a battered lantern, the other a worn broom."
The father forces his daughters to do work because he thinks he has power and no one tells him any different. The times back then were very sexist and women didn't have much say-so in anything they did and were really considered as property to their husbands, or fathers until they were married.