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Bold text The book Sounder is about a boy in the 19th century in the south. The boy's father is a sharecropper and they are going through hard times. Sounder, the family dog, and the boys father go out hunting, but they come home empty handed. One morning he smells something miraculous, the boy goes into the kitchen and sees the mother cooking a ham bone. A little while after, three white men, the sheriff and his deputies, accuse the boy's father for stealing the ham. Sounder runs after them, but the sheriff shoots Sounder, and the mother tells the boy to leave Sounder in peace to die. The boy looks for sounder over the course of the days but cannot find him. One day the boy's mother bakes a cake for the boy's father, the jail workers smash his cake, prior before giving it to his father. Before he leaves the prison, the boys father instructs him to not come back for more visits. As the boy continues to look for Sounder, he grapples with resentful feelings towards his father and the fate of his family as they struggle to survive.