![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to the scene of the shooting, the boy finds a part of Sounder's ear. The arrested man's son goes looking for Sounder but cannot find him. Sounder chases after them, and one of the deputies shoots him with a shotgun. They feast for three days, but finally the sheriff and two of his deputies burst into the cabin and arrest the father for stealing the ham. The family subsists on fried corn mush, biscuits, and milk gravy until one morning they wake up to the smell of boiling ham. The father and his dog, Sounder, go hunting each night, but the hunting is inadequate. The black sharecropper's family is poor and hungry. Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970 and was made into a major motion picture in 1972. The boy hears his father may be in Bartow and later Gilmer counties, but the author does not specify where the boy lives. The author notes prisoners were hauled in "mule-drawn wagons", and the mention of chain gangs places an upper limit to the story of 1955 when the practice ended. The author refers to the various characters by their relationship or their role in the story. Sounder, the dog's name, is the only character name used in the book. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing a ham from work, the boy still hungers for an education. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family. Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. ![]()
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