William Armstrong Sounder Quotes

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“ ‘Poor creature. Poor creature,’ said the mother and turned away to get him some food.”
Reveals a change in her attitude toward Sounder. Sounder came back to the house hungry looking like a skeleton. The mother and the boy quickly gave the poor dog his food. William Armstrong wrote this quote in the book of Sounder. This shows that the mother cares about this starving dog and that she feels very bad for the dog. She knows that she does not have lots of food to feed her kids, but she wants the dog to live because she loves the dog. The mother cares about her kids and she knows that she doesn’t have much food to waste but she really wants the dog to be healthy. Even when the dog came back missing an eye, missing a part out of his ear, and looking