This story is about a Negro boy and his dog, Sounder. Being a Negro, his father hunts animals while his mother sells 2 pound nuts everday. One morning the boy wakes up and smells an odor that hasn't existed in his house for years. Bacon! But that night a sherrif takes care of his dad for stealing bacon from the food storage last night. Sounder barks and barks for his own master but the sherrif shots him in the ear as a reply. Consequently, Sounder disappears into the dark. Boy's mother promises him that he would be somewhere quiet, preparing for his own death. The boy neglects the promise. Everyday, he searches for Sounder which always results in failure. One day, his mother sends him to the state jail where his father was. The boy brings a cake-the security shouts at him and crushes his father's cake- I was so humiliated about the security's attitude towards the Negro boy. The book shows the blacks were severly discriminated in early 1970s.
The Negro boy is taught by a local Englishman and his father soon returns from jail. I was very sorry for them, and their destiny for being a sharecropper, not being able to either read or write. It's very fortunate to live in a country without discrimination. I almost cried when I heard that his father died while hunting with his royal dog, Sounder.
The Negro boy, despite the problems happening in his home, was very fortunate for being able to learn and become a rich gentleman. He had also learned how to fight the barriers that tried to stop his eagerness and hope.
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