The actions that happen in this story are that Sortories was beaten by his father, who is the barn burner.The reason I know this because it says "His father struck him with the flat of his hand on the side of the head, hard but without heat, exactly as he had struck the two mules at the store..." (pg 7). The conflicts that occur are his father burns barns and tracked manure on an $100 rug.
The narrator is the author, William Faulkner. The tones I hear Faulkner use change depending on what is happening in that part of the story. Some examples are: "Does it hurt?" "Naw." "Hit don't hurt. Lemme be." "Can't you wipe some of the blood before hit drys?" "I'll wash to-night. Lemme be." ( pg. 2-3) The tone changes as it goes back and forth from his mother to him. She's being loving and caring, but he's being rude and disrespectful.
The symbol Faulkner uses is Major de Spain's white, clean, $100 rug. This is because the father wipes manure and ruined the rug while washing it. because of this he loses 20 bushels of corn from his pay because he is a sharecropper. All this is because it says, " ... his father raise from the ground a flattish fragment of feildstone and examined it and returned to the pot." ( pg 6)
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