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Summary: classic children's book
Review: Sound won a Newberry. And because it is a pretty good book. It's a coming of age story for a young black male. It's about family, death, love, and god. Sounder is at the core--not physically there, but in the boy's mind (and I don't know that Armstrong ever named any of the characters except the dog). He isn't there except at the beginning and the end. But hey, this is a great book. Get it for your kids and enjoy.
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Summary: Sounder the Lab
Review: The book sounder was a very good book for me to read. This book was a realistic fiction book to me. I liked it because it was exciting and you don't know what is going to happen next. I mean, this book could be real! It sounds like it is real to me. The book was going to be based on a ture story. When I bought the book it had a .com in the back that talked about the author and it was suppose to be based on his life. After he read the book over, he made a few changes and it still didn't sound right,and it is suppose to be a childrens book, and it's 362 pages long! So finally he made the story not based on his life, but the life of a fictional boy. Now the bookis only 116 pages long. This book is like the book Shiloh because the stories are based on dogs and how they live and how they are treated. The two books are also based on two boys. This book tells how the boy lives( he doesn't have a name in the book.) The boy lived in a very poor family and his father was sent away. The boy took care of his family. He had many difficult situations. The boy and Sounder (his dog) missed their father terribly. I recommednd this book because it makes me appreciate my life and how lucky I am.
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Summary: Kevin Smith
Review: This is a great book for any young child to read. It tells the classic story about a boy and his dog and the things that they go through together. I would recommend this book to all parents. It is an easy read but not too elementary. Ny child who likes to read would enjoy this book.
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Summary: Books for the kids
Review: I first read this book when I was twelve years old. It is pretty much about a boy and his dog at first. But it becomes much more than that. This is a good book for any child to read. It teaches responsibility and it is also very family oriented. This was one of the few books that I could really say had me flipping the pages in anticipation of the next sequence of events. I would recommend any parents out there to purchase this book for their child. It is a relatively easy read but not elementary. The outcome may be that your child now wants a dog of their own. All in all it is a fine book.
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Summary: Education Class Review
Review: I would recommend this book for the 5th grade. The main characters of the book, Sounder, were Father, Mother, the three children, and Sounder. The main theme of the book was that even though Sounder was the families pet, he was a major part of the family. The story takes place in rural Georgia, during the Great Depression. Times were hard for everyone, especially for the African Americans. The book was realistic and well written. It was interesting that the dog was the only one that had a name. All family members had to pull together during the hard times as well as the good times, that's what makes a family.
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Summary: Education Class Review
Review: I liked the book Sounder because the author makes the events really graphic and realistic. Sounder was more than just the family's pet. He was a part of the family and a major source for food. The Depression was very hard on everyone, particularly for the African Americans. It was interesting that the dog, Sounder was the only one with a name. The saddest part of the book for me was when the father was sent to prison for stealing food for his family. He was away working on a chain gang for many years, only to return home physically deformed. The book is mainly about how the family has to stick together through hard times and good times.
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Summary: a book everyone should read
Review: Sounder
by William H. Armstrong Brief summary and review: Armstrong masterfully drops the reader into a different era, an era we would
like to forget. It is not a comfortable time and it is not a comfortable story,
but it is a powerful one. The story is a simple one that Armstrong paints on a
large canvas, full of description so vivid and true that we feel we are there,
feeling the cold ground, smelling the countryside, and even feeling the wetness
of the tears and blood.
I believe it is significant that Sounder is the only character named in the
book. This is the boy's story. He represents a sort of 'every man' or 'every
child'. The boy learns several lessons along the way, some of the coming from
unlikely sources.
Sounder is one of those stories that not only entertains children, but teaches
them valuable lessons about nature, relationships, and learning. This is a
very, very important book for us all.
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Summary: O Yah
Review: It was good i felt i very much becaause it reminds me of me and my pops when i was young .
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Summary: An exceptionally moving story for both children and adults.
Review: Loving devotion, decency and courage can come from an assortment of places-our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends-but one would not immediately suspect that those qualities would or could come from a scruffy, beat-up old coon dog named Sounder. It just goes to show that pluck and deep affection can soar up and out where we least expect it. In the heart of the old South there is a deep-rooted and pervasive, detrimental thinking that is the general make-up of the majority's attitude. It is a stark divide or code of ethics that one must live by in order to survive. Quite simply and horribly: white is good, black is bad. In the vortex of this dark thinking is a hard working, nameless black family (any black family), innocent people minding their own business and simply trying to survive. There are three things that help them rise above their abysmal poverty: 1) each other 2) stories imbued with biblical truths and 3) Sounder. However, as time elapses and weather conditions grow more harsh, the severity of starvation grips the family, eventually causing the father to commit a crime of despair: stealing food (sound Dickens-like?). Upon getting 'found' out, the misery only doubles when the father is led away (for many years) in chains like a psychopathic cut-throat killer and Sounder (like Old Yeller) is wounded in trying to help his master. But it is in the moment of arrest and thereafter that Sounder evolves from a simple hunting dog to a kind of guardian angel, drifting in and out of the picture, while the eldest son developes from a fatherless boy-searching desperately for him-into a determined young man eager to better himself and his situation. As the bleakness of prejudicial inhumanity slowly abates and the remaining family members start their lives anew, Sounder and the father emgerge back into the picture-physically infirm and mentally wounded by the cruelties of life, but those wounds heal, when, like Christ and Mary, they ascend to the realm of peace, leaving behind a stark truth for the boy and those left behind: "The Lord is my shepard; I shall not want, He maketh me lie down in green pastures." Sounder is a wonderful book for both children and adults and most deserving of its 1970 Newbery Medal.
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Summary: Sounder
Review: I like this book becase the author explains everthing.I was angry when they took.The boys dad to jail.The author used alot of details to make me feel sorry for them.The boy had to drop out of school to help his parents.The author makes it the book very relistec.It was interesting that the dog was the only one with a name.The author did a wonderful job of making us hate the villins.This book is the best.I ever read.
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