1 / 8

Sounder

Sounder. By: William H. Armstrong PowerPoint By : Wyatt Bailey. Characters. Sounder (The boy’s dog) The Boy (Sounder’s Owner) The Father (The boy’s father) The Mother (The boy’s mother) The Sheriff. Setting. The boy’s Cabin The Jail The Past Negro School The Woods. The Problem.

hogan
Télécharger la présentation

Sounder

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Sounder By: William H. Armstrong PowerPoint By : Wyatt Bailey

  2. Characters • Sounder (The boy’s dog) • The Boy (Sounder’s Owner) • The Father (The boy’s father) • The Mother (The boy’s mother) • The Sheriff

  3. Setting • The boy’s Cabin • The Jail • The Past • Negro School • The Woods

  4. The Problem • The boy’s father was arrested and was put in jail for stealing a pig to feed his • family. • When the sheriff was driving away Sounder chased him and the sheriff shot Sounder in the ear and Sounder ran under their porch. • The boy couldn’t get the dog from underneath the porch.

  5. Spoiler Alert • Do not read the next slide if you haven’t read the book. Skip to the author page.

  6. Solution • The boy’s father got out of jail because there was a dynamite explosion in a • mine that his father was working in for his punishment of stealing the pig. • He came back injured but he lived. • The boy found Sounder under the porch and his ear was missing, Sounder later died in the book and the boy’s father died a bit later.

  7. About the Author • William H. Armstrong was born on September • 14th 1911 in Lexington, Virginia. • He was the third child in his family. His parents • Were Howard and Ida Armstrong. He grew up on • Farm near Lexington, Virginia. He went to college • To be a history teacher. He taught for 55 years • And wrote many books. He died in his home in 1999 at the age of 87.

  8. The End

More Related