Barn Burning By William Faulkner

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Settings includes the historical moment in time, geographic location, and help initiate the mood for the story. There are three different types of settings: historical, geographical, and physical. William Faulkner composed a story with all three settings emerged together.

William Faulkner composed many stories with historical background.Historical setting is the time period or era of the story and Barn Burning is a story that occurred around the post civil war period. During that time people of the south were freed as slaves but were limited in their rights therefore resulting them to still have to work for and live on the land of people with higher control. Abner Snopes the father, and his family lived in a two-roomed housed where he was

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