Different Styles of Writing

Authors note:


I wrote this analysis as a response to Barn Burning by William Faulkner. I tried to understand this book, but I couldn't enough to make a good essay and know what I was talking about. So due to that, I just decided to write about how I didn't understand some other authors' writing. I wanted to actually write more about the story, but I don't know how to make a good response to something I don't understand.  


   You’re at your local library, looking for something new. You see a row of books you’ve never heard of before. You decide to give them a try. For others, reading classic, old, or different books is a treat. It can be an exciting way to get entertainment and try something new. To see what other kind of books are out there. But unfortunately for me, it’s just not always as simple to pick up some book and read it. I feel like a lot of writers just have a different writing style that I can’t always understand.

   Barn Burning by William Faulkner is a good example of this. I personally didn’t really know what I was doing when I picked this book. I guess it would be good to read something different that wasn’t too big of a book to read. This story takes place near the Civil War era. I could tell it was either way since they were talking about slaves a lot. This book also is relatively old too; the copyright says 1939 and renewed in 1967. Anyway it mainly just has to do with a Father and his family moving to supposedly Mexico due to the Father being acquitted of Burning a Barn. From there I couldn’t tell much what was going on. All I could think was what was that about or who’s that or since when were they there? This sequence usually seems to happen a lot whenever I read these kinds of books. I find the writer’s style of writing to just be confusing at times.

   Although I said I didn’t know what was going on, I could uncover that they went to some place where there’s someone called “Major de Spain.” His youngest son ended up running away out of suddenly losing loyalty for his father. He ran to these hills and he walked in the woods as a cliffhanger. That’s really all I could really make out of it. I just found it very confusing.

   So in conclusion, I guess this story just isn’t really my cup of tea. If there was any purpose of this story, I’d say it’s either to show some issues that may have happened during the Civil War or just show how fast loyalty can change. But as I said before, I really just couldn’t get a good feel for this one. I just find that sometimes I don’t always like a different style of writing from different writers.