Sounder is a young adult novel by william armstrong, published in 1969. The author refers to the various characters by their relationship or their role in the story. They are referred to as the boy, his mother, his father, the teacher. Some one of you gave tina rinaldi sounder to take home. Hopefully, his father will collect enough money to. I think the main problems in the book sounder is went the father steals foods for his family and is caught by the sheriff and then taken to jail. Sounder is a rather ugly mix between a georgia redbone hound and a bulldog, but he is a magnificent hunter. About two months after the fathers arrest, the boy. Pages in category novel series by main character the following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. In the early 1970s, armstrong wrote two books that echoed the characters and plot of. Okay, thats not a very good answer, whoever answered before me for important characters having much to do with the story. Why do you think the author of this book didnt give his characters names.
Sounder, the dogs name, is the only character name used in the book. I was on a newbery kick and brought sounder home from the library. Winner of the newbery award, the book purposefully omits most proper names of people and places in order to unchain its narrative and characters from a specific time and place. After students read sounder, have them complete these activities about hunting, the books setting, and the future of the main character. On page 54 and 55 of the book, the unnamed main character of the book, the boy, goes out to town with his father to sell mistletoe. The boy is first seen as a lonely child, perhaps six or seven years old, who idolizes his father and loves to hunt with him and sounder. Sounder was a dog who was the main character in this book. The father tells the boy not to come back to the jail, and he goes home. After many years pass, the boys father does return to his home, deformed and. He continued to be prolific in his writing output after the publication of sounder, mainly publishing books with historical or biblical main characters, such as.
Boy the protagonist of the novel, who is a sensitive child. Who are the characters in the book sounder answers. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweetsmelling ham is cooking in the familys kitchen. The four main characters in this book are the boy, the father. By the end of the book it feels as if everything has been put right for the boy, and that indeed, he has found.
The protagonist of the story, who is referred to only as the boy. The story focuses on the boys search for sounder and his father. Early in the book and for the whole rest of the book his father was arrested. In addition, i was annoyed by the nameless characters in this story. Sounder is about a young africanamerican boy who lives in the south with his family and dog, which is named sounder.
Night after night, he and his great coon dog, sounder, return to the cabin emptyhanded. The boys father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. List of characters the author has chosen not to name his human characters. The only character to bear a name is the family dog, sounder.