“In the end you should always do the right thing even if its hard.” From the time of the age of accountability to our adulthood we are taught and have instilled in us core values of life: right from wrong, just from unjust, good versus evil, truth, loyalty, morality, and so on. But with these simple lessons come a veil of fog and ambiguity that often times has us guessing if we made the correct decision. Gaze upon Barn Burning by William Faulkner; a short story about a post-Civil war sharecropping family and there evil, abusive father, Abner, that as the title states burns barns. Over the course of six days the stories hero and youngest member of the family Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or Sarty, faces a moral dilemma and eventually outs his…show more content… Due to the ruling against Abner for ruining the rug, he had decided to yet again burn a barn; Major de Spain’s barn in fact. Sarty was told that night to prepare to get rid of the barn and in this moment changes. Readers must see this...here Sarty started out as a poor, weak boy lieing for his father, having to put up with his cruelty, being hit in the head constantly, dealing with the foolishness and cruelty of his fathers acts of burning barns and ruining the rug. Sarty knows he will have to do all of the work to collect the 20 bushels and he feels in his heart that if things do not change, if he himself does not change he will grow up to be just like his father. And now in the second barn burning attempt he knows that he will yet again have to lie and defend his his father or face punishment. In this moment his mind was made up that he would not follow that “stiff black coat another day”. He had always knew right from wrong, justice from unjustice and so to free himself he warned de Spain of his father’s intentions...a choice that some view as wrong, but as readers should see a choice that was earned honest and bought and paid