“But he resolved he would not die, even with a half-dead body, because he wanted to come home again,” tells how much the father cares about his family and how determined he was to get back to them. William H. Armstrong,the author of Sounder illustrated that the dog was shot trying to protect and follow his master. After working in a labor camp, the father retreated to his family after being injured in an explosion. When the father was limping down the road to the house the mother and son thought he was lost cow. When Sounder scratched at the door, the boy highly doubted the fact that it was Sounder. In both situations the family did not understand who was coming home. They both had missing pieces but in the end they had the same love for
