"Barn Burning" - William Faulkner

In the story "Barn Burning", there is a family who don't have a lot of money or much of anything. The father is a criminal but can't prove what he's been doing. The younger son Sarty knows he's doing wrong but doesn't wanna go against family because his father tells him that's all you will ever have and can trust. In the story, when the father feels someone has done him wrong he will burn something valuable to them, which is usually barns. He has been to court before but no one has proof that he's the criminal. So they just order him to leave town and to not come back. Well with his new boss, he again felt he was done wrong. He was asked to clean a rug. But when he brought it back it was worse than before and he was ordered to give ten bushels of corn back to his boss to repay for the damages. The father felt this was unfair and was about to go do something drastic when the son realized this is wrong and he must stop his father no matter how hard it may be for him. So he runs and tells his dad's boss what's about to happen and helped stop him from doing something wrong. Well this was very courageous of the boy because he knew this would mean that he couldn't go back to his family because he went against them. This shows a lot of maturity from the boy even at his young age. So at the end he goes on with his own life and figures it out from there without any help. I think this story is trying to tell us that no matter how close you are to someone, if they're doing something wrong you need to stop them because it is effecting other people even if you don't agree.