| A | B |
|---|
| loudest dog in the county | Sounder |
| destroyed a cake | Jailer |
| did laundry for rich people | Mother |
| Was jailed for stealing food | Father |
| searched for Sounder for weeks | Boy |
| always smelled fresh and clean | pillow |
| favorite Bible story | Joseph |
| guard threw this at the boy | iron |
| the Father did not steal | biscuits |
| Story began in this month | October |
| The boy usually felt this way | lonesome |
| The father stole because his family felt | hungry |
| The sentence the father received | hard labor |
| The boy's wish was to learn | how to read |
| the boy pictured this as he looked at the guard | Goliath dying |
| chaos at the school yard | dogs chasing pigs |
| helped the boy clean his wounds | the teacher |
| the season the boy returned home | summer |
| the place the father died | The woods |
| the time of Sounder's death | two weeks after the Father |
| the boy compared the death of his father and Sounder to this | a flower that lasts forever |
