Chapter 1:
Sounder is a coon dog/loves hunting
Father didn’t buy Sounder, met him on the road when he was a pup
School was far away, started going, but quit when winter came (only attempted 2 times)
Sounder ½ hound, ½ bulldog
Had a really loud strong bark
They don’t have a lot of food, not good hunting
At night mom sat shelling walnuts (2 pounds) and telling stories from the Bible
She hums when she is upset/worried
Father leaves without Sounder
Next morning, there is sausage, biscuits, and hambone
Boy wants to learn to read
Chapter 2:
3 white men show up at night (sheriff and deputies)
Father is arrested for stealing food
Sounder is shot when trying to jump into the wagon with his master (tore off side of head and shot out shoulder)
The boy puts Sounder’s ear under his pillow to wish Sounder wasn’t dead
Chapter 3:
Mother left with meal sack (to return stolen food) and walnuts (to trade for food)
Riddle: If you’re inside you look out, and if you’re outside you look in, what looks both ways? A window
Couldn’t find Sounder’s body under the cabin
Chapter 4:
Mom returns/ decides Sounder just had a flesh wound and has gone to heal
Mom brought a box/ for a cake
Boy looks for Sounder, but can’t find him
Christmas: mom bakes dad a cake/boy takes it to the jail
He doesn’t stop to read the windows because he’s afraid a cop will stop him
Cop crushes the cake into four pieces, looking for a file or hacksaw
Father asked him not to visit again, he’ll send word through the traveling preacher
Chapter 5:
Sounder returns
Missing an ear and eye, front foot/shoulder broken
He always sits and watches the spot where he last saw his master
He no longer barks/ only whines
Father is sentenced to hard labor and sent off (they don’t know where)
Chapter 6:
Boy goes to the fields to work
Decides to go look for father
Visits places, a few knew his Father (but he always misses finding him)
He digs in trash for things to read (newspapers, magazines)
David and Joseph are his favorite of his mom’s stories
Chapter 7:
Years go by
At rock quarry a guard smashes his fingers with a crowbar
Sees a man throwing a book out in the garbage/takes it
Sees a school, a pig knocks over a pipe, kids come out
He goes home with the teacher
Teacher tells the boy about his book, and fixes his fingers, they become friends and boy tells him about himself
Chapter 8:
Teacher wants boy to live with him and go to school in exchange for doing chores
Boy would come home to work in the fields
Sounder would always go meet him, but still doesn’t bark
Would read Bible to his brothers and sisters
“Dog Days” of summer comes from the Dog Star
Sounder is restless
Lone figure comes up the road
Sounder starts barking/ his master has come home
Father is crippled/ one whole side of his body is lifeless
Hurt in avalanche caused from a dynamite blast
Dad and Sounder go hunting
Sounder comes home alone
Father died/ Sounder dies a few weeks later
