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    Sounder

    By William H. Armstrong and James Barkley

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    This powerful Newbery-winning classic tells the story of the great coon dog Sounder and his family. 

    An African American boy and his family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the boy's father takes their dog, Sounder, out to look for food. The man grows more desperate by the day.

    When food suddenly appears on the table one morning, it seems like a blessing. But the sheriff and his deputies are not far behind. The ever-loyal Sounder remains determined to help the family he loves as hard times bear down.

    This classic novel shows the courage, love, and faith that bind a family together despite the racism and inhumanity they face in the nineteenth-century deep South.

    Readers who enjoy timeless dog stories such as Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows will find much to love in Sounder, even as they read through tears at times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 12, 2011
    ISBN9780062105561
    Author

    William H. Armstrong

    William H. Armstrong grew up in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and did graduate work at the University of Virginia. He taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School for fifty-two years. Author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, he won the John Newbery Medal for Sounder in 1970 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986.

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    • 3/5
      The blurb on my edition of this Newbery winner says it is "told in a way that includes us all." By this, I assume they are referring to the fact that none of the characters (except Sounder of course) have names. The main character is "the boy," a black sharecropper's son of an unspecified age, and his parents, "the man" and "the woman." Rather than including us all, I thought it kept the characters distant. This is a story that would I would have expected to have me sobbing at several points, but I never shed a tear. I never felt close to the characters.The story opens with the man being arrested for stealing food to feed his family. As he is carted off in chains, the sheriff shoots the family dog, Sounder. After they are gone, the boy spends some time searching for Sounder, and then in a few years, when he is older, he spends months each year searching for his father.It's a well written book, but it never touched me the way it should have.
    • 4/5
      The book starts out with how the dog came to be with a black family. Also the character of the dog like how his baying yelp can be heard for distances when he trees a racoon or possum. The story is also about the relationship the dog has with a young, black boy. The is set back during the depression it seems because life is real hard. For instance, some times there isn't always food to eat. The story demonstrates life for a young black boy and what he goes through growing up in those times, along with his dog. The illustrations were in black and white drawings and I thought were very good. It made the book seem more real.I remember reading this book back in Junior High School and I really liked it. It made me think of the times of hearing my own father talk of his childhood during the depression times, too. He was born during that time and remembers days of going hungry and just barely making it some times as a child. He said it teaches you a lot about life.I definitely would use this book for history, social studies, government, and in English with a book report. I feel the morals and virtues that this book teaches is definitely needed in this day and age. Even the movie is real good and comes very close to the reading of this book, and I would also consider showing the movie as a project to the children as well.
    • 3/5
      This is one of the more depressing Newbery winners I've read. It follows the story of the boy who is the son of a black sharecropper in the US South. In the beginning of the story, the boy's father is taken to prison by the sheriff and his cronies. While they are dragging the father away, they also shoot the family's coon dog, Sounder, who then runs off wounded. The story doesn't get much happier from there. It is a well written story, but not my favorite.
    • 4/5
      This book is told from a young African American boy's point of view, but his name is never given. The parents just call him boy. This boy's father is a sharecropper sometime after the Civil War. Times are hard and the boy is surprised to find his momma cooking ham one morning. Later on a sheriff comes and arrests his father for stealing meat. Sounder is the dog that always went hunting with his father and tried to stop the men. One of the men shot Sounder. It mangled him, but didn't kill him. The boy looks for Sounder for days. Sounder finally comes back, but he's not the same dog. The boy goes and looks for his father for days, weeks, and it turns into years. Then he comes upon a nice man who will board the boy and give him an education. The boy comes home often enough to help his momma, but continues to get an education. Once when he is home, they are sitting on the porch and Sounder begins whining after someone coming toward the house. It is the boy's father who has been mangled by a dynamite blast and let go because he can no longer work. One side of his body is limp. The boy's father is home for awhile and decides to take Sounder hunting one night. The next morning the boy follows Sounder to his father who laid down and seemed to have went to sleep. He had died. The boy began to understand many of the things he had read in books and continued to get an education.This is a good short story to read to elementary students. It will allow them to gain an understanding of black people during this time and the challenges they faced.
    • 5/5
      My favorite Newbery so far. A story I want every child, every adult to read. A father (no proper nouns are ever used except for the name of the dog, Sounder) and his family are hungry. The weather makes hunting impossible. The father makes a decision to steal a ham for his children. But he is soon caught. When the men come to take the father to jail, they take a shot at Sounder and Sounder disappears. The father is sent to jail and then to work on a chain gang. For much of the book, the fate of neither Sounder nor the father is clear.
    • 4/5
      I'm not sure what I think about this book, now that I've come to the end. I've tried to think what the author was saying - what the connections are between Sounder and the father and the boy. I'm not really sure. Certainly, there is the idea of injury - the way the world can break a man (or a dog). And Sounder seems to represent something amazing - he's the best hunter, he has the best call, he is loyal to one man alone. That amazing something seems to be wrapped up in the father too. The son keeps hunting for him, and sees in him someone who never kneels, who could kill a cruel guard with his bare hands, just like Sounder does with his prey. Yet both the dog and the man are broken by the world, and the boy finds a different way to meet the world - not by force, but with education. I wouldn't say I enjoyed this book - but like many great books, it made me think.
    • 4/5
      I was expecting a heartwarming story about a black boy and his dog. What I got instead was a story of loneliness and longing. A boy longing for his dog and his father.A story set in a harsh racist world - a world of poverty and heart wrenching despair as pictured in the mother. The boy first loses his father, as he is sent to prison for stealing a ham. Then the dog runs away after being wounded after a shooting. The boy struggle to rise above his environment with determination and faith, with his love for old bible stories, his aspiration to learn how to read, so his world can be expanded. I wanted to hear more about this kid as he grows up. What would become of him. Excellent narration by Avery Brooks.
    • 4/5
      The quintessential sad dog book. My only problem with the book is that all white people are made to look bad.
    • 4/5
      It brought my boys to see through the eyes of a slave's child growing to be an adult. The boy's thirst to read and to know brought wisdom to all those around him. His responsibility, and his family's dependence upon him even while young gave teachable moments to show what young people can do.

      No one was given a name, other than boy, ma and pa, but we knew the characters. We hoped for the mom to sing (she did when she was happy), she only hummed when she was nervous or anxious.

      The heart beat of the book rings with the lives of these people brought to life on the pages of this book.
    • 4/5
      A unique novel, where the characters have no names except for the dog, Sounder. It is a moving story of life in the early 20th century for blacks in rural America.
    • 5/5
      Sounder is the story of man's best friend and a little boy. Set in the Great Depression, the story begins when a poor black man steals food for his family. When caught, the man suffers greatly at the hands of law enforcement and Sounder, man's best friend, comes to the rescue. After beign shot the man's son has to deal with the arrest and abuse of his father as well as the prospect that his dog is gone. Sounder was shot during the attempted rescue.This story is an old one. I remember reading it as a young boy. I think all students should. It's a great story and gives a voice to the best ideas we want our children to admire and attain.Students could read this book and then discuss how the story might have been different in today's society. Students can gain an understanding of what about the time frame made the story turn out the way it did?
    • 5/5
      I rated this book four stars because it is a book that I feel my students can learn a lot of life lessons from. I feel that they will also learn about a very important time period in our history when people were not treated fairly because they were a different color. These two reason are just to name a few of why I would place them in my classroom. In the book it tells of a story of how a young boy(story does not give him a name) that struggles with so much. He has to overcome being poor, death, and the ulimate problem of learning how to read when it is illegal for him to. After reading this novel I was reminded of how grateful I should be to have the oppourunity to be able to do things that at one point of time I probably would not have gotten the chance to do.
    • 3/5
      This one is kind of odd because it's the sort of book that really takes some analysis, which doesn't match up with its reading level. At the end everything is tied together- it's a story about a moment and memory that never leaves you. It's a story of growing up and accepting that the moment is past. None of the characters have names except for Sounder, making everyone an image- less distinct than the dog. Everything happens in patterns except a few specific incidents. It's interesting that it's hinted that the boy's father found the ham in the garbage just as the boy found the book there. A very deep book without much story- I'd actually put this more at a high school level than middle school or elementary school.
    • 4/5
      This is an excellently written story about the time of share cropping and the related prejudice between races. The story itself isn't as much about the dog as one would assume, but is more about things that come about because of what happens to the dog. Sounder is a book about overcoming sadness, struggle, even moving beyond what you expect of yourself. It is simple but, when used as a teaching tool, can be turned into many things that are complex. Very well written and easy to read. A great way to get younger readers involved in historical stories.
    • 5/5
      A sobering look at life for a poverty stricken, African-American family in the 19th century. Even though the characters remain nameless, Armstrong does an incredible job of developing them.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book for ages 10 and up about a boy and his dog and more...Learn about southern history, sharecroppers, justice, chain gangs and yes a boy and his dog.
    • 1/5
      Summary:Sounder is about a poor black sharecropper that goes hunting. The dog gets shot by a depute and runs off. The dog end up coming back with one ear one eye and can only use 3 of his legs.Personal Reaction: Back in the day blacks were not treated fairly and neither were animals. Officers took advantage of everyone.Classroom Extensions: 1. Have students read silently.2. Put students into groups and discuss each chapter.
    • 5/5
      my favorite book EVER!!!
    • 5/5
      A classic tale of growing up in the South amidst poverty, prejudice, and family drama. A Newbery Award winning novel that most youngsters have to read at some point during their education. If you have a student reading it, read it with them.
    • 4/5
      A classic, gotta love it. :)
    • 5/5
      a sad but wonderfully written book. I highly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Wow. Just great. If you’re on the fence, get off it. Read this now.
    • 4/5
      I could picture myself there and found it kind of sad. :(
    • 4/5
      I'm sure at some point I should have read this growing up, but I didn't. A very simple, touching, and poignant story about a child dealing with very adult issues with impressive grace. Audible has a version that is beautifully narrated by Avery Brooks that i strongly suggest putting the two hours into.
    • 4/5
      Here's a little synopsis:

      "A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, Sounder, return to the cabin empty-handed. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweet-smelling ham is cooking in the family's kitchen. At last the family will have a good meal. But that night, an angry sheriff and his deputies come, and the boy's life will never be the same."

      I enjoyed this book. I had a hard time getting into it at the beginning but I quickly got into it after that. My only regret is that the book is really short, only 116 small pages and I wish the story had been longer. It was really interesting to read about what life was like for African-Americans in the south at this time. It was also interesting to see how they talked. Words like follard instead of followed. The story was well written and I could see an 19th-century southern boy telling the story as it is written.

      By far my favourite quote is this:

      "The boy had once heard that some people had so many books they only read
      each book once. But the boy was sure there were not that many books in the
      world."

    • 5/5
      Sounder is a coon dog which lives with a poor, African-American family of sharecroppers in the post-Civil War South. The family consists of a father, a mother, an older son, and several younger children. The father struggles to feed his family in hard times. After working hard in the fields all day, he and Sounder go out hunting night after night but come home empty-handed. Then one morning, a ham is cooking in the cabin’s kitchen. However, that evening, an angry sheriff and his deputies come to arrest the father for stealing food and take him away to jail. When Sounder tries to go along with his master, he is shot in the face and crawls away, whether to heal or to die no one knows. After the trial, the father is sent away to work in the chain gangs. Then the waiting begins for the boy, his mother, and the family—waiting for word from his father, waiting to hear Sounder’s familiar bark, always waiting. After a while, the boy, angry and humiliated, begins going out all over the countryside to look for his father wherever he hears that there is a chain gang at work, returning home frequently to take his father’s place in the fields. His search continues for a number of years. Along the way he encounters a lot of abuse from guards and others, but he also meets an elderly schoolteacher who helps him to learn how to read. But will he ever find his father? And what will happen to Sounder? This extremely well-written, powerful story, which won the Newbery Medal in 1970, clearly portrays the hopelessness of black sharecroppers during the late nineteenth century. Everything in the novel is understated, allowing the emotion to speak for itself. In addition to the history lessons on sharecropper life in the South, the book illustrates responsibility, faithfulness to family, and hard work. Even though she cannot read, the mother tells Bible stories to the children, and, encouraged by hearing about Joseph, David, and others, they patiently endure. William Howard Armstrong (1911-1999) is the author of some twenty other books, including Sour Land, a companion novel to Sounder. He based Sounder on stories told to him by an elderly African-American teacher who worked for his father.
    • 4/5
      Some how I missed this Newbery-Award-winner when I was young, but I’m glad I finally had the chance to read it. The novel tells the story of a young boy growing up during the Great Depression in the south. His family is poor, but they work hard to make ends meet. They have to deal with local prejudice and make do with the little they have. When the father is arrested and sent off to a work camp, his son searches for him. During his travels he meets a teacher who sparks a thirst for knowledge in him and opens up future opportunities for learning. There is a harsh ending, but it leaves room for hope, which is important.  
    • 5/5
      Sounder, a Newberry Medal winner, by William H. Armstrong, is about an African American boy growing up in a sharecropper’s family. The boy, his parents and younger siblings have no names, only the dog, Sounder, is given a name in the story. Poor does not even begin to describe this family’s economic status, and as a result, the father is jailed for stealing ham and sausage from the local smokehouse. In the process of the arrest, the children are exposed to the abuse of their father by the sheriff and his men, as well as the shooting of their dog Sounder. The boy is devastated by the prospect of his dog being dead, but doesn’t give up hope that he may come home alive. While his mother struggles to make ends meet by shelling and drying walnuts to sell, two pounds each night, the boy searches for his dog, wishes he could learn to read and go to school like the other kids, and fights the terrible loneliness he feels. Months pass and Sounder returns in terrible condition. The boy also begins searching for his father, against his mother’s advice. While the boy searches, he teaches himself to read and comes upon a kind teacher who offers him a place to live while he studies at his school. The boy’s mother agrees and he begins his education. This story is set in the early 1800s in the south. However, the perseverance the boy displays is a timeless example of how someone can keep living and becoming a better person despite the circumstances they been born into. While the racial issues have changed for African Americans since the 19th century, one cannot help the circumstances in which they are born today- i.e. an abusive family; an addicted parent; a poverty stricken family; etc, and so any child reading this story would be able to sympathize and relate to the boy’s plight. Armstrong does not sugar-coat the mistreatment of African Americans by whites in the time this story takes place, helping readers visualize the realistic conditions this race endured, and still do endure in parts of the country today. The violence the boy sees and endures because of his black skin is a stinging reality of what he and others endured during this time in history. The author creates admiration for the character, as he not only endures this treatment, but turns the other cheek, and does not fight back. He instead rises above his circumstances keeping his faith and bettering himself as a person. His dream of reading becomes a reality because of this endurance.
    • 3/5
      Sounder is a loyal family coon dog, half bulldog and half hound who I feel is symbolic of loyalty and love. It is during the great depression and the father in a black sharecropping family is arrested for stealing a ham to feed his starving family. Sounder is shot and maimed trying to protect him. William Armstrong tells this story through David Lee, the eldest son who spends years searching jails and chain gangs for his father. David longs to own a book and to learn to read which is made difficult as school is an eight mile walk away and he must take on his father’s responsibilities while he is absent. Along his journey he finds indifference and deliberate meanness along with great kindness and understanding. A great read that shows us the world through a family living in extreme poverty with all the hardships that we, in our own comfortable existences, have no real concept of until it is brought to life for us as in this story.
    • 4/5
      I like how when the master comes home at the end, Sounder runs out to him and is happy and excited and he has his beautiful voice once again.

    Book preview

    Sounder - William H. Armstrong

    Dedication

    To Kip, Dave, and Mary

    Epigraph

    A man keeps, like his love, his courage dark.

    —Antoine de Saint Exupéry

    Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    Dedication

    Epigraph

    Author’s Note

    Chapter I

    Chapter II

    Chapter III

    Chapter IV

    Chapter V

    Chapter VI

    Chapter VII

    Chapter VIII

    About the Author and Illustrator

    Praise

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    Author’s Note

    FIFTY YEARS AGO I learned to read at a round table in the center of a large, sweet-smelling, steam-softened kitchen. My teacher was a gray-haired black man who taught the one-room Negro school several miles away from where we lived in the Green Hill district of the county. He worked for my father after school and in the summer. There were no radios or television sets, so when our lessons were finished he told us stories. His stories came from Aesop, the Old Testament, Homer, and history.

    There was a lasting, magnificent intoxication about the man that has remained after half a century. There was seldom a preacher at the white-washed, clapboard Baptist church in the Green Hill district, so he came often to our white man’s church and sat alone in the balcony. Sometimes the minister would call on this eloquent, humble man to lead the congregation in prayer. He would move quietly to the foot of the balcony steps, pray with the simplicity of the Carpenter of Nazareth, and then return to where he sat alone, for no other black people ever came to join him.

    He had come to our community from farther south, already old when he came. He talked little, or not at all, about his past. But one night at the great center table after he had told the story of Argus, the faithful dog of Odysseus, he told the story of Sounder, a coon dog.

    It is the black man’s story, not mine. It was not from Aesop, the Old Testament, or Homer. It was history—his history.

    That world of long ago has almost totally changed. The church balcony is gone. The table is gone from the kitchen. But the story remains.

    W. H. ARMSTRONG

    I

    THE TALL MAN stood at the edge of the porch. The roof sagged from the two rough posts which held it, almost closing the gap between his head and the rafters. The dim light from the cabin window cast long equal shadows from man and posts. A boy stood nearby shivering in the cold October wind. He ran his fingers back and forth over the broad crown of the head of a coon dog named Sounder.

    Where did you first get Sounder? the boy asked.

    I never got him. He came to me along the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup.

    The father turned to the cabin door. It was ajar. Three small children, none as high as the level of the latch, were peering out into the dark. We just want to pet Sounder, the three all said at once.

    It’s too cold. Shut the door.

    Sounder and me must be about the same age, the boy said, tugging gently at one of the coon dog’s ears, and then the other. He felt the importance of the years—as a child measures age—which separated him from the younger children. He was old enough to stand out in the cold and run his fingers over Sounder’s head.

    No dim lights from other cabins punctuated the night. The white man who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling. Sometimes on Sundays the boy walked with his parents to set awhile at one of the distant cabins. Sometimes they went to the meetin’ house. And there was school too. But it was far away at the edge of town. Its term began after harvest and ended before planting time. Two successive Octobers the boy had started, walking the eight miles morning and evening. But after a few weeks when cold winds and winter sickness came, his mother had said, Give it up, child. It’s too long and too cold. And the boy, remembering how he was always laughed at for getting to school so late, had agreed. Besides, he thought, next year he would be bigger and could walk faster and get to school before it started and wouldn’t be laughed at. And when he wasn’t dead-tired from walking home from school, his father would let him hunt with Sounder. Having both school and Sounder would be mighty good, but if he couldn’t have school, he could always have Sounder.

    There ain’t no dog like Sounder, the boy said. But his father did not take up the conversation. The boy wished he would. His father stood silent and motionless. He was looking past the rim of half-light that came from the cabin window and pushed back the darkness in a circle that lost itself around the ends of the cabin. The man seemed to be listening. But no sounds came to the boy.

    Sounder was well named. When he treed a coon or possum in a persimmon tree or on a wild-grape vine, his voice would roll across the flat-lands. It wavered through the foothills, louder than any other dog’s in the whole countryside.

    What the boy saw in Sounder would have been totally missed by an outsider. The dog was not much to look at—a mixture of Georgia redbone hound and bulldog. His ears, nose, and color were those of a redbone. The great square jaws and head, his muscular neck and broad chest showed his bulldog blood. When a possum or coon was shaken from a tree, like a flash Sounder would clamp and set his jaw-vise just behind the animal’s head. Then he would spread his front paws, lock his shoulder joints, and let the bulging neck muscles fly from left to right. And that was all. The limp body, with not a torn spot or a tooth puncture in the skin, would be laid at his master’s feet. His master’s calloused hand would rub the great neck, and he’d say Good Sounder, good Sounder. In the winter when there were no crops and no pay, fifty cents for a possum and two dollars for a coonhide bought flour and overall jackets with blanket linings.

    But there was no price that could be put on Sounder’s voice. It came out of the great chest cavity and broad jaws as though it had bounced off the walls of a cave. It mellowed into half-echo before it touched the air. The mists of the flat-lands strained out whatever coarseness was left over from his bulldog heritage, and only flutelike redbone mellowness came to the listener. But it was louder and clearer than any purebred redbone. The trail barks seemed to be spaced with the precision

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