SOUNDER
(William Armstrong)
A young African American boy and his family share crop on the land of a white plantation owner. Though the owners are wealthy, they only pay the boy's father one dollar a day. The boy and his family have never had enough to eat so the boy's father decides he has to do something about the situation. What he decides to do is to steal a little bit of meat from the owners.
At first they don't know who stole the meat but then they find out that the boy's father stole the meat and they come and bring him to jail. Just as they are bringing him to jail the boys dog Sounder chases after them and get's shot and crawls away. The boy is determine to find Sounder but his mother says that he has crawled away to die.
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