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They are very abusive to the father, chaining him and even striking him in the face with the chain. Some of the language is difficult to understand because it is set in the 19th century American South. What surprised me the most was the punishment that the father received. The story begins by telling about his family, which includes his father, mother, younger siblings, and Sounder, the family's coon dog.
I felt really sorry for this family. They are extremely poor and have to work hard for everything that they have, which isn't much. One day three law men come to haul off the dad for stealing a ham. Sounder is a good book for all ages to read. I am very protective of my family and wouldn't have been able to restrain myself. The author gives such a good description of the animal's pain, sounds, and motions, that you can actually visualize the scene.
To me it didn't really fit the crime of just stealing a ham. He was placed in jail and placed on a chain gang for years and years.
I would have been jailed as well. The main characters are the boy and Sounder.
They really had to take up the slack and work even harder from dawn until dusk, every day, just to survive. Sounder was making such a ruckus that one of the deputies shot him.
The blast tears off the whole side of his head and shoulder. I am very thankful that I wasn't in this boy's situation.
--Reviewed by Kiana Armjilo
This book is not just another book about a boy and his dog, but about the larger issues of life and meaning.The Platonic theme of the existence of an higher order of ideas and shapes is one of the nice things about the ending.The black boy comes to grips with a world of prejudice for the blacksouthern share crop farmers. Slavery may have ended in the 1860's, but you really can't much tell it from this book. Freedom here seems to be the freedom to be mistreated ans starved inside an otherwise rich nation.The poverty here seems to be the color white in the south.One teacher reaches out and helps and shows thatnot all men are liars and cruel.
Boy did I cry through the whole book. Simple and short but complex as the nature of racism. It had me rooting and sobbing at the same time. What a read. It was one of the best human relation I can think of. I could place myself there and it was indeed a battle among humility and love.
This is a short audiobook as the book itself was short.It's the story of a poor family on the verge of starving who owned a coon dog mix. Sounder greeted him and one day they went hunting like old times. As an adult I choose to listen to the audiobook instead of reading the book again. It's been a very long time since I read this book. All in all this is a very good story and very good audiobook. This book isn't really about Sounder, the dog, it's more of a coming of age, growing up of the oldest child.When father finally did come home he was in a bad way and very old.
The father was imprisoned and sent to work on the chain gangs.
One evening the father stole food to feed his family.
Shortly after the father's death Sounder followed.This is a good story, but not what I remembered.
I remember reading about a dog.
Only father didn't come home.
He was caught shortly after and when he was being taken away the loyal hunting dog Sounder was shot.
He was badly disfigured and disappeared for several weeks to heal.
The reader was excellent in his retelling of this book, no complaints there.
I just thought I should explain that clearly (hint, hint) after reading a few of the negative reviews. NOT a whole lot of singin' and dancin' going on in the south during Reconstruction, historically speaking that is. And this book doesn't make you feel "sad".just oppressed.wait for it.ah, ha.a masterpiece for all races, without a doubt. If younger readers don't get it, that might not be such a tragedy after all.
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