Parent-Child Relationship in Royal Beatings and Barn Burning
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Running head: PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN ROYAL BEATINGS AND BARN BURNING
PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN ROYAL BEATINGS AND BARN BURNING
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PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN ROYAL BEATINGS AND BARN BURNING
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PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN ROYAL BEATINGS AND BARN BURNING
Introduction
In this essay, a compare and contrast will be done on the parent-child relationship as
shown in the two chosen stories. The two chosen stories include Royal Beatings by Alice Munro
and Barn Burning by William Faulkner. While the former is about the story of a girl and her
parents, the latter is the story of a boy and his father. The main argument of this essay is that the
parent-child relationship is more verbally abusive than it is physically.
Discussion
In both the stories, the parent abuses the child physically as well as verbally. The readers
are introduced to the plot of the story in the very beginning of the Royal Beatings. “Royal
Beating. That was Flo’s promise. You are going to get one Royal Beating” (1) (p. 119). Rose, the
story’s main character is a young girl who lives with her father, stepmother Flo and half-brother
Brian in Hanratty, a small town in Canada. The family lives in the poor part of the town where
they have a grocery store that Flo runs. Although Flo does not directly inflict beatings on Rose,
she instigates her husband to beat the child. In Barn Burning, the child is abused by his father
and even made to lie. Colonel Sartoris Snopes was the name of the child whose father, Mr.
Snopes used to abuse him and scare him. The first instance of the father abusing the child was
when the family went out of the county because his father had caused someone’s barn burn out
of anger. While spending the night in a camp, the father hits Sartoris in the head thinking that he
might have planned to testify against his father at the Justice of the Peace Court. “You were
fixing to tell them. You would have told them. His father struck him with the flat of his hand on
the side of the head (2) (p. 4).” It needs mentioning that Mr. Harris called on little Sartoris in the
PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN ROYAL BEATINGS AND BARN BURNING
Introduction
In this essay, a compare and contrast will be done on the parent-child relationship as
shown in the two chosen stories. The two chosen stories include Royal Beatings by Alice Munro
and Barn Burning by William Faulkner. While the former is about the story of a girl and her
parents, the latter is the story of a boy and his father. The main argument of this essay is that the
parent-child relationship is more verbally abusive than it is physically.
Discussion
In both the stories, the parent abuses the child physically as well as verbally. The readers
are introduced to the plot of the story in the very beginning of the Royal Beatings. “Royal
Beating. That was Flo’s promise. You are going to get one Royal Beating” (1) (p. 119). Rose, the
story’s main character is a young girl who lives with her father, stepmother Flo and half-brother
Brian in Hanratty, a small town in Canada. The family lives in the poor part of the town where
they have a grocery store that Flo runs. Although Flo does not directly inflict beatings on Rose,
she instigates her husband to beat the child. In Barn Burning, the child is abused by his father
and even made to lie. Colonel Sartoris Snopes was the name of the child whose father, Mr.
Snopes used to abuse him and scare him. The first instance of the father abusing the child was
when the family went out of the county because his father had caused someone’s barn burn out
of anger. While spending the night in a camp, the father hits Sartoris in the head thinking that he
might have planned to testify against his father at the Justice of the Peace Court. “You were
fixing to tell them. You would have told them. His father struck him with the flat of his hand on
the side of the head (2) (p. 4).” It needs mentioning that Mr. Harris called on little Sartoris in the
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