Barn Burning Choices Quotes

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Quote #4

"So I'm going to charge you twenty bushels of corn against your crop." (62)

De Spain knows that the whole family will suffer to come up with twenty bushels of corn. If he thought that the rug was an accident, and not a deliberate act of provocation, he might have chosen to be less harsh.

Quote #5

He began to run […] without ceasing to run, looking backwards over his shoulder at the glare […] (107)

This is the moment when Sarty chooses the unknown world in place of the known one. Even though the narrator only uses the word "glare" to describe de Spain's flaming barn, we understand that Sarty is specifically turning his back on barn burning, and everything barn burning means to him.