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Social Sensitivity

Because Armstrong attempts to realistically portray a racist society, he includes scenes of violence and racist language that readers may find offensive. Without excessive goriness, he graphically describes wounds to the dog and to the boy, and he also describes violent details of the boy's revenge fantasies.

Sounder has caused a controversy among critics over whether the depiction of the family is racist. In an article printed in Donnarae MacCann and Gloria Woodard's The Black American in Books for Children: Readings in Racism, Albert Schwartz attacks Armstrong for imposing a "white.....

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Sounder from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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