Questions+-+Chp+8

1. Why does the mother agree to let her son live with the teacher?

2. How do the early descriptions of the "speck" moving up the road hint at the father's deformity?

3. In what ways is Sounder's announcement of the father's retun heart-warming?

4. What observation does the boy make after his mother announces she will cook a meal to celebrate the father's return?

5. What is the significance of the boy's no longer desiring to hunt with his father?

6. How is the time of the father's death important to one of the book's themes?

7. How does the advice the boy gives his mother before he returns to school indicate his growing maturity?

8. Why does Sounder's death not make the boy sad?