Sounder Short Story

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“But he resolved he would not die, even with a half-dead body, because he wanted to come home again.” As the father was arrested, one of the deputies shot Sounder because he ran after the wagon taking away his master. The prison quarry the father worked at later exploded and he was granted remission and returned home. One of his shoulders was out of place, he could not speak properly, and one of his legs was inoperative. It dragged when he limped and it was very difficult and painful for him to move it. Sounder came home after a long time of healing himself in the woods. He was “the living skeleton of what had been a mighty coon hound.” He lacked an eye and an ear, and one of his shoulders had shattered. When Thornton Wilder was writing Sounder,

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