They enter the cabin and arrest the father, accusing him of having stolen the ham. Later, the sheriff arrives with two deputies. These are special-occasion foods, and he wonders where they got them from. In the morning, he wakes up to find pork sausages and ham cooking. The mother reads from the bible, and the boy goes to sleep wondering where his father has gone. They have a meager dinner, and while the boy helps his mother shell walnuts, the father leaves. The father promises the boy that he will take him hunting. The family depends on the animal hides from the hunts that the boy and Sounder regularly go on. Sounder is ugly, but is a very skilled hunting dog. Sounder is named because of his incredibly loud bark, which can be heard a long way off. He concludes that the next year he will be older and thus stronger and better able to attend school. The boy speculates he and the dog must be about the same age, and reflects on his failed efforts to attend school despite the long distance required to walk through the worsening winter weather. The father responds that the dog came to him. The story begins with a young boy asking his father where he got their dog, Sounder. 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. Sounder is a Young Adult novel by William Armstrong, published in 1969.
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