The tone and style of words are what lets us communicate on a higher level. Humans use their tone to say something to convey their feelings on different things. Then humans use different styles of language between each other. William Faulkner uses a parenthetical style and a southern dreary tone in “Burning barn” to voice the narrator's actions and thoughts.
Faulkner’s tail of the “Burning Barn” is about a young boy, Colonel Sartoris, who has to move because of accusations towards his father, Abner, Faulkner use of parenthetical style opens up the mind of Colonel Sartoris “(our enemy he thought in that despair: ourn!amine and hisn both! He’s my father!)” (Faulkner 247) This small though changes the contexts to how the little Colonel Sartoris appears how this information is foretold is by an insertion of parentheses. The little parentheses quote lets us know that the boy is loyal to his father that if he has an enemy then he has one too. Faulkner doesn’t just use the parenthetical style to elaborate his characters he adds detail to a watered down…show more content… The main example of this tone is the father, Abner, the tone isn’t developed through the character's voice it’s developed through his actions and the way the Colonel Sartoris describes him. After Abner is accused of burning down a barn he and his family move to another town where they rent a home from an older couple. When the father went to visit the landlord for a reason unknown he was asked to wipe off his feet before he entered the home so he wouldn’t ruin an expensive rug but instead he when into the house ignoring the servant who asks him to do so then when the lady of the house asked him to leave he just stood there. This attitude of I don’t care about what other people think about and no cares for other people's property is what develops the southern dreary tone of this character that is carried throughout the story of “Burning
