How To Write A Summary Of Snopes

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Returning home, Snopes begins to empty the kerosene from the lamp into a can. Snopes’s mother is tugging on Snopes trying to prevent another barn burning. Snopes pushes her aside and tells Sartoris to get a can of oil from the barn. Sartoris has a fantasy of running away but returns with the can of oil. Snopes tells his mother to hold Sartoris, knowing he will try to stop him from burning the barn. Snopes heads out to the barn and Sartoris begins to resist. Finally, escaping from the grasp of Snopes’s mother, Sartoris heads to Major De Spain’s home to warn him. The mother and aunt is unable to stop Sartoris. Bursting into the house of Major De Spain, he warns them about the barn. Running back onto the road, Major De Spain’s horse catches up

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