Colonel Sartoris Snopes Character Analysis

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Dylan Reeves Mrs. Alfaro English 1302 8 March 2017 Colonel Sartoris Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or Sarty, is a 10 year old man, and an extraordinary person. He has to grow up fast due to the fact that his father, Abner Snopes, is a thoughtless force of violence and destruction. With his family, Abner is stiff and cruel. This stiffness makes him seem almost less than human. Sarty's father forces Sarty to help burn barns, and lie about it afterwards. One night Abner strikes Sarty, because Abner thought he was going to tell the Justice of the Peace the truth about Abner burning barns, even though Sarty was going to lie for him. Abner told Sarty,”You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you.” Twenty years later Sarty told himself,”If I had said they wanted only truth, justice, he would have hit me again.” This shows that Sarty is, and always has been a man of justice. It also shows that Abner’s actions have scarred the young man. We, the readers, know that Sarty seeing the Major de Spain mansion is a major moment in Sarty's life, because we get to see some of Sarty’s thoughts and how much Sarty and Abner differ from each other. The first thing the mansion reminds him of is a courthouse. The mansion also gives him a …show more content…

It starts as a young 10 year old boy who is scared of his dad, and helps him burn barns. As the story goes the reader can tell that through all Sarty’s trials and complications he has to grow from a young boy to a young man. His mom, Lennie Snopes, is also overpowered by Abner, but she still finds a way to discretely teach Sarty the difference between right and wrong. With a little help from his mom, Sarty figures out who he is, and he also knows he can make his on decision. By the end of the story Sarty overcomes “the terrible handicap of being young” and is forced to make his own decision, and choose himself what the right thing to do

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