Sounder
By William Howard Armstrong
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-44--20-6
Published in 28 languages.Author: William Howard Armstrong
Born: September 14, 1914 Shenandoah Valley Virginia
Died: April 11, 1999 Kent Connecticut
Born: September 14, 1914 Shenandoah Valley Virginia
Died: April 11, 1999 Kent Connecticut
Sounder written in 1969
Characters:
1. Main Character: Boy[Black]—age about 14 years is the oldest son, he is determined to read, become educated, and he knows how the white man feels about the black man, and encounters old man who teaches him [Narration from the boy]
He is mostly serious with occasional sense of humor, Intelligence, very much smarter than other characters with the focus on reading. He also idolizes his father. However, it’s his mothers’ strength that gets him through and her words and stories which makes him strong
Characters:
1. Main Character: Boy[Black]—age about 14 years is the oldest son, he is determined to read, become educated, and he knows how the white man feels about the black man, and encounters old man who teaches him [Narration from the boy]
He is mostly serious with occasional sense of humor, Intelligence, very much smarter than other characters with the focus on reading. He also idolizes his father. However, it’s his mothers’ strength that gets him through and her words and stories which makes him strong
He also made Journey's looking for Father, Sounder and encountering The Elder man on page 93
Time: 19th Century
Political / Social activism Yes
Plot-let-Minorities fighting for rights
Time: 19th Century
Political / Social activism Yes
Plot-let-Minorities fighting for rights
2. Sounder-- mixed Georgia redbone hound and bulldog.
3. Mother—she is a solid woman, she may not be able to read the bible, however, she listened and absorbs the words of the bible and she presented them to her children. The Boy absorbs them. She also told her God Chose these people with and ends in mind and they have a purpose. [Heavily influenced the words of God]
4. Father—Father is a silent man hard worker as a Sharecropper, until one terrible day he accused stealing from the Smoke house. The events change the family.
5. Two Sisters [Sisters are plural] pg 102
6. One Brother [is not plural]pg 102
6. One Brother [is not plural]pg 102
7. Sheriff-The sheriff arrested the Father and didn’t question Father about the Ham and used terrible language. Pg 21
8. Two deputies. The Deputies followed the Sheriff’s lead—pg 21-24
9. A large Man with Red Face Jailer—pg58-59 He ruins the cake that his mother made for his father for Christmas and he is not nice towards the boy. Pg 68 Red face Jailer mean to prisoners. When the boy goes to visit his father he is excited until the man ruins the cake his mother mad and realize that visiting father was terrible.
10. Bullnecked man in Jail-Pg 62
11. Prison Guard [Abusive towards the Boy] Whom hurt Boys hand Pg 85, 86, 87, & 88
12. Nice Elderly Man with white snow hair who becomes the boy’s teacher pg 93
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Influence:’ Aesop influenced by the Old Testament:
Homer 8th century BC Homer (ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
History:
This story takes place in the Deep South and in the United States.
Homer 8th century BC Homer (ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
History:
This story takes place in the Deep South and in the United States.
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Biography of William Howard Armstrong
1. Answer these questions about the author.
a. What is the author's date of birth?
September 14, 1914
b. How old was Armstrong when he wrote this story?
Age 55 [Bio-graphy written 1969]
c. What inspired him to write it?
The Old Testament, Homer [Iliad] and History
1. Answer these questions about the author.
a. What is the author's date of birth?
September 14, 1914
b. How old was Armstrong when he wrote this story?
Age 55 [Bio-graphy written 1969]
c. What inspired him to write it?
The Old Testament, Homer [Iliad] and History
Mr. Armstrong taught at Kent School in Connecticut for 52 years. His Head Master urged him to write a bout aout how to study. telling Armstrong that he had the best organized best disciplined, best prepared students in the school. His first work was published in 1956
However, became the best known for his book Sounder a Classic written in 1969
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2. Describe the following settings:
a. The big house—Jail or Prison pg 22 The click of the handcuffs was like the click of a gate latch at the big house where the boy had once with his father to work.
b. The meetin' house—pg 2 Sometimes on Sundays they went to the meetin’ house.
[Church]
c. The unpainted cabin.[Homes of the Sharecroppers pg 2 The whiteman who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro Sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling.
a. The big house—Jail or Prison pg 22 The click of the handcuffs was like the click of a gate latch at the big house where the boy had once with his father to work.
b. The meetin' house—pg 2 Sometimes on Sundays they went to the meetin’ house.
[Church]
c. The unpainted cabin.[Homes of the Sharecroppers pg 2 The whiteman who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro Sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling.
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3. Sounder is this breed of dog:
a. German Sheppard
b. pit bull
a. German Sheppard
b. pit bull
c. mixed Georgia redbone hound and bulldog. Page 4—Georgia redbone hound and bulldog
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4. The mother was able to sell her walnuts for
a. ten cents a pound.
b. fifteen cents a pound. Pg 9; Fifteen cents a pound at the store if they’re mostly half-kernels and dry.
c. twenty five cents a pound.
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5. The mother entertained the boy at night by
a. reading. She did not know How to read.---page 56 Perhaps people knew she couldn’t read and thought her feelings would be hurt if they offered her the books their children had used up and worn out.
b. playing games.—In the book doesn’t talk about her playing games;
a. ten cents a pound.
b. fifteen cents a pound. Pg 9; Fifteen cents a pound at the store if they’re mostly half-kernels and dry.
c. twenty five cents a pound.
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5. The mother entertained the boy at night by
a. reading. She did not know How to read.---page 56 Perhaps people knew she couldn’t read and thought her feelings would be hurt if they offered her the books their children had used up and worn out.
b. playing games.—In the book doesn’t talk about her playing games;
Based from the Old Testament:
c. telling stories. Pg 9
Pg 10 Genesis 7:12 the great flood
Pg 11 Genesis 6:15
Pg 17 I Samuel /I Chronicle 1:1-3 King David
Pg 27 St. John 11:1-13 Lazarus
Pg 40 Joshua 1:2
Pg 50 Daniel 3:11-12
Pg 50 Genesis 39:20-23
Abraham’s Journey’s Genesis 13:3
Jacob Journey’ Genesis 28:5 Sent away to live with his Uncle Laban
Genesis 46 Jacob Journey’s to Egypt
Joseph Sold in to[Journey] Egypt Genesis 37:28-36
David I Samuel Chapter 16
Joseph Genesis 30:24 Born
39:2 Slave
39:20 Prison
41 The Dreams
41:14 Joseph Exaltation in Egypt
David and Goliath I Samuel Chapter 17
“ “ 17:49 the death of Goliath by David
Aesop influence by the Old Testament especially in the Area of Joseph.
23 Psalm
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6. There are ____________ children in the family.
a. three
b. two
c. four pg 2 the boy & three small children
a. three
b. two
c. four pg 2 the boy & three small children
{This household two boys and two girls] The Oldest Boy is the main Character to this story.
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7. The sheriff arrested the father because the father
a. broke into someone's house.
b. broke into a store.
c. broke into a smoke house. Pg 23—“That tear in your overalls where the striped ticking is—that’s where you tore them on the door hook of the smokehouse.
a. broke into someone's house.
b. broke into a store.
c. broke into a smoke house. Pg 23—“That tear in your overalls where the striped ticking is—that’s where you tore them on the door hook of the smokehouse.
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8. Watering a growing plant when the soil is hot
a. helps it to grow faster.
b. makes it greener.
c. shocks the roots. Pg 95 “It’s only a flower,” the man said “I’ll water it when the earth has cooled a little. If you water a plant when the earth is too warm, it shocks the root.”
a. helps it to grow faster.
b. makes it greener.
c. shocks the roots. Pg 95 “It’s only a flower,” the man said “I’ll water it when the earth has cooled a little. If you water a plant when the earth is too warm, it shocks the root.”
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9. How many years had passed when the boy sat and read the story of Joseph to his younger brother and sisters?
a. 6 years
b. 2 years Pg 101 Boy returns 1st and 2nd 102 2nd year The boy read to his brother and sisters. He read the story of Joseph over and over never wearied of it.”
c. 4 years
9. How many years had passed when the boy sat and read the story of Joseph to his younger brother and sisters?
a. 6 years
b. 2 years Pg 101 Boy returns 1st and 2nd 102 2nd year The boy read to his brother and sisters. He read the story of Joseph over and over never wearied of it.”
c. 4 years
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10. There is a period during the summer called "dog days"; it is a time when the heat and drought parch the earth. How did this period get its name?
a. During this time, dogs go mad. Pg 103 ; Dog days is terrible time, the woman said, “It’s when the heat is so bad the dogs go mad.” The woman explains this to the boy [This is the answer to question # 10]
b. The Dog Star rises and sets with the sun during this season of the year. Pg 103 Dog star because it rose and set with the sun during that period.
c. Heat and drought only come in summer. Pg 103 August is a summer [Heat and drought]
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a. During this time, dogs go mad. Pg 103 ; Dog days is terrible time, the woman said, “It’s when the heat is so bad the dogs go mad.” The woman explains this to the boy [This is the answer to question # 10]
b. The Dog Star rises and sets with the sun during this season of the year. Pg 103 Dog star because it rose and set with the sun during that period.
c. Heat and drought only come in summer. Pg 103 August is a summer [Heat and drought]
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11. The father is hurt on the chain gang while
a. working in a cotton field.
b. working in a quarry. Pg 108 Half the voice of the man was gone too, so in the slow measured, stuttering he told how he had been caught in a dynamite blast in the prison quarry, how the dead side had been crushed under an avalanche of limestone, and how he had been missed for a whole night in the search for dead and wounded.
c. working in a jail.
a. working in a cotton field.
b. working in a quarry. Pg 108 Half the voice of the man was gone too, so in the slow measured, stuttering he told how he had been caught in a dynamite blast in the prison quarry, how the dead side had been crushed under an avalanche of limestone, and how he had been missed for a whole night in the search for dead and wounded.
c. working in a jail.
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12. Sounder and the father die
a. a year apart.
b. two years apart.
c. within the same year. Pg 113 But the figure did not move when Sounder licked his hand. The boy put his hand on his father’s good shoulder and shook ever so gently. The chin didn’t not lift itself; no eyes turned up to meet the boy. “Tired, so tired.”[Fall]
Sounder dies two weeks before Christmas Pg 114 Two weeks before he came home for Christmas, Sounder Crawled under the cabin and died. The boy’s mother told him all there was to tell.
a. a year apart.
b. two years apart.
c. within the same year. Pg 113 But the figure did not move when Sounder licked his hand. The boy put his hand on his father’s good shoulder and shook ever so gently. The chin didn’t not lift itself; no eyes turned up to meet the boy. “Tired, so tired.”[Fall]
Sounder dies two weeks before Christmas Pg 114 Two weeks before he came home for Christmas, Sounder Crawled under the cabin and died. The boy’s mother told him all there was to tell.
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13. Write one paragraph explaining what you believe the life lessons of this story are.
That the mother believe that the Lord choose people for certain things in life. She believes her son was a chosen one. “The Lord has come to you, child. The Lord has certainly come to you.” Sounder was a devoted dog. However, not to the boy. However, to the true master the father. When the dog returned after two months of being missing he only whined and not bark. Only when the father returned he let out a bark. When the father passed on the dog followed a couple months later.
Examples: David and Joseph.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/armstrong.htm
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When reading this story I am so glad that I have strong knowledge of the bible. When reading the story especially I knew Pg 50 Daniel 3:11-12
That the mother believe that the Lord choose people for certain things in life. She believes her son was a chosen one. “The Lord has come to you, child. The Lord has certainly come to you.” Sounder was a devoted dog. However, not to the boy. However, to the true master the father. When the dog returned after two months of being missing he only whined and not bark. Only when the father returned he let out a bark. When the father passed on the dog followed a couple months later.
Examples: David and Joseph.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/armstrong.htm
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When reading this story I am so glad that I have strong knowledge of the bible. When reading the story especially I knew Pg 50 Daniel 3:11-12
Daniel 3:11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he shoudl be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; these men [were protect by God]
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/armstrong.htm [The quiz above]
Answer provided by Jeannette K. Rook
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/pdfs/Sounder_pt1.pdf
about William H. Armstrong
http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/Info_31799.asp Detail Book Review
One thing is not mention the Author William Howard Armstrong also demonstrated a clear violation of the 8th Amendment against the African American Population.
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments. The phrases employed are taken from the English Bill of Rights of 1689. In Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause to be applicable to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court has not explicitly ruled on whether the Excessive Bail or Excessive Fines Clauses apply to the states.
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/pdfs/Sounder_pt1.pdf
about William H. Armstrong
http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/Info_31799.asp Detail Book Review
One thing is not mention the Author William Howard Armstrong also demonstrated a clear violation of the 8th Amendment against the African American Population.
The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments. The phrases employed are taken from the English Bill of Rights of 1689. In Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause to be applicable to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court has not explicitly ruled on whether the Excessive Bail or Excessive Fines Clauses apply to the states.
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I am a parent who home schools my child through accredit program. This was one the required books he must read. However, I believe this book should be for children older than 11 years old. The age should be 15 and above to due the language. This way history is taught a full understanding of the nature of the book. The book is heart felt and I found myself praying for the boy. The out come is some what sadden when his father passes on and Sounder follows. However, with his belief in God and his mothers strength he moves on just as his mother said, "God has a purpose for you.
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AECOP AND JOSEPH: AN ANCIENT NOVEL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Brief Summary: In this the Life of Aescop and Old Testament story of Joseph. Is about two texts about suffering hero, who bring success and salvation and is sacrificed for the sake of the whole community, have a common oral background.
Aecop background is of Oriental and he is the Oriental Version of Joseph in the Old testament in the biblical Story. The Life of Aecop was influenced by the Old Testament.
Life of Aesop
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Bookend/9563/LIF/Life01.html
Both Aesop and Joseph go through false death [or death and resurrection, as it was in some versions of the Aesop legend]. both are foreigners and slaves, promotoed by the king and , both serve as house slaves wise at court bringing success their masters, and become victims or sexual solicitation of their masters wives."
However; Aesop is the comical version of the Hero Joseph.
This book may purchased through Amazon.Com
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Where to buy the book and the Movie
http://www.amazon.com/Sounder-William-H-Armstrong/dp/0064400204/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228896096&sr=8-2
TV movie produced by ABC and Disney
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=5809215
The Movie Starring Ceiley Tyson and Paul Winfield is excellent it was slightly different from the book. So click to Amazon.com and purchase the movie.
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