Elizabeth's+Summary+of+Sounder

In the book sounder, a boy wants to have his dog, Sounder, forever.He also wants to go to school, but his school is miles and miles away. He still walks to school every day, and it is very hard for him to walk there and back every day! Things are going good, but something goes wrong. The boy's dad sneaks out one night. He gets arrested for stealing a chicken, to feed his family. He does that, because they didn't get a raccoon on their last hunting trip. The sheriff takes him in the truck, and Sounder starts to chase the truck barking. Then the sherrif shoots Sounder in the face! I felt very sad after reading that. The boy keeps on screaming "SOUNDER, SOUNDER!" Since he is hurt Sounder goes innto the woods to heal himself. The boy calls and looks for him for days. The boy thinks he is dead, but the a mirical happns. Sounder suddenly comes out of the wood s and limps over to the boy, but because he isn't totally healed, he doesn't run.They wait for a while for the dad to get out of jail. Then the dad and Sounder go on hunting trip an tradjecly the both die, but the family lives on!