unperceptively loyal to his father. Sarty becomes his own self-reliant person, instead of being the shadow of his father. When he warns de Spain of his barn burning, Sarty becomes disloyal to his father and his own heritage. At this time, blacks had to band together to fight off the white men and oppression, but Sarty does not do this. After they flee the country, Abner is still abusive to his family. Abner Snopes is full of hatred and he is always ready to defend himself even when no one has an argument against him. This gives Sarty all the more reason to find himself. Sarty must choose to either follow the law or to choose the same path his father did, a life that satisfied himself and no one else. The first time Sarty had to choose between the law and his father he chose his father. He did not know much, only that the white men were enemies and that he had to stick to his own blood. He was used to his natural instincts and the teaching of his own heritage. That was not the case the second time around. As he got older, he got smarter. He realized that the confrontations that his father put him in were not right. When Abner goes to burn the barn in the new country, this is the first time Sarty makes his own choice. Sarty overcomes the fear of his abusive father and does the right thing. He tells de Spain of his father's intentions and then runs away. When Sarty makes his lonesome decision to do the right thing, he goes against everything that he has ever been taught. He defies his own blood and generations of his family's conventional beliefs.It appears that Faulkner wants his audience to know of the social problems and racial discriminations of the South. Whether it was whites discriminating against blacks or vice-versa, he wants his audience to take notice and hopefully do something about it. During the time when slavery was accepted, blacks were called negroes and "niggers". Faulkner uses those words repeatedly thro...
