Early in the book and for the whole rest of the book his father was arrested. About two months after the fathers arrest, the boy. 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. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweetsmelling ham is cooking in the familys kitchen. I was on a newbery kick and brought sounder home from the library.
Some one of you gave tina rinaldi sounder to take home. The protagonist of the story, who is referred to only as the boy. Okay, thats not a very good answer, whoever answered before me for important characters having much to do with the story. 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.
List of characters the author has chosen not to name his human characters. Pages in category novel series by main character the following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. 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. The boys father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times.
The main character, or protagonist, is the one the storys about. Sounder, the dogs name, is the only character name used in the book. Why do you think the author of this book didnt give his characters names. By the end of the book it feels as if everything has been put right for the boy, and that indeed, he has found. After many years pass, the boys father does return to his home, deformed and. In the early 1970s, armstrong wrote two books that echoed the characters and plot of. Sounder is about a young africanamerican boy who lives in the south with his family and dog, which is named sounder. 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. During the winter, when no other money is coming in.
After students read sounder, have them complete these activities about hunting, the books setting, and the future of the main character. The father tells the boy not to come back to the jail, and he goes home. 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. The story focuses on the boys search for sounder and his father. Sounder is a rather ugly mix between a georgia redbone hound and a bulldog, but he is a magnificent hunter. Who are the characters in the book sounder answers. The character who is in most of the scenes or talked about the most will be the main character. Boy the protagonist of the novel, who is a sensitive child. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, sounder, return to the cabin emptyhanded. The only character to bear a name is the family dog, sounder. 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 main setting is an isolated, dingy cabin situated on the fringes of a white mans plantation.