Get started Closeįamilies can talk about what sharecropping is, why the family in Sounder was so poor and hungry. But despite the fact that the story contains death, violence, and sorrow, it does have an important and uplifting message.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide.
At one point the boy feels a "helpless hatred" and wants to chain the jailer behind a wagon and drag him down the frozen road. The guards smash a gift the boy delivers to his dad in jail, men are beaten on the chain gang, one guard smashes the boy's hand with a piece of thrown iron, a dynamite explosion kills some of the inmates, the father is permanently injured. The mangled body is described graphically, as is the death of a bull. That same night Sounder is shot and left for dead in the middle of the road. The real violence comes when the boy's father is dragged out of the house, beaten, and hauled away to jail in the dark of night.
The life of the sharecropper in a racist world seems cold, lonely, and always on the verge of violence: The weather is harsh, people are mean.
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