{"id":723,"date":"2013-06-09T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/?p=723"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:27:42","slug":"sounder-spoiler-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/2013\/06\/sounder-spoiler-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounder (Spoiler ALERT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent book I read was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sounder<\/span>.\u00a0 It was written by William H. Armstrong, in 1969.\u00a0 It is the story about a family of sharecropper farmers, which takes place probably around the early 1900\u2019s, or late 1800\u2019s.\u00a0 They live in a run-down cabin, working in the fields, and doing other chores for \u201cthe people in big houses\u201d, as they refer to them in the book.\u00a0 The boy in the book, and \u201cthe boy\u201d he is called throughout the book, has a dog named Sounder, whom he takes hunting with his father, to catch vermin to sell for fur.\u00a0 However, one terrible day, the sheriff of the town which the family lives in, arrests his father on charge of stealing ham.\u00a0 As the sheriff takes his father away, Sounder chases after them, and gets struck down by a shotgun.\u00a0 The boy only finds part of the dog\u2019s torn ear.\u00a0 A few weeks later, the dog returns, with a missing leg and eye to the boy\u2019s grief.\u00a0 Meanwhile, his father has been sentenced to a year of hard labor.\u00a0 The boy searches all over, but can\u2019t find his dad.\u00a0 Eventually, the boy\u2019s father came home, but he had gotten injured, due to a dynamite blast in a prison camp.\u00a0 One night when he was hunting, his father died.\u00a0 Two weeks later Sounder died, due to his sadness of his master dying.\u00a0 Since his father had come home, the boy had been going to school, and with his new knowledge, he knew that his father was out of his pain, and was in eternal peace, and he felt good in a way.<\/p>\n<p>This book was very enjoyable and intriguing, and I would probably rate the book four stars, and William Armstrong won a Newberry Medal for this book for a reason.\u00a0 William Armstrong wrote 16 other books besides Sounder.\u00a0 He was born in 1911, and died in 1999, at the age of 87.\u00a0 There is a very valuable lesson to learn from this book.\u00a0 The lesson to learn is that we should really count our blessings and put everything in perspective.\u00a0 For example, the things most of us take for granted like a roof over our head, freedom, and good food and clothes, is not something everybody has.\u00a0 Even something such as family and a good family is something that not all people have.\u00a0 Whenever we find ourselves complaining about something, we need to take into perspective whether it is worth complaining about.\u00a0 For example, we are sometimes forgetful and complain about what food we have to eat, not remembering that some families don\u2019t have anything to eat.\u00a0 And when we read a book, we don\u2019t think that some people can\u2019t even read, because they don\u2019t have the opportunity.\u00a0 Even though I have known that I am truly blessed with many blessings, this wonderful book by William Armstrong has taught me to always count my blessings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent book I read was Sounder.\u00a0 It was written by William H. 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