![]() ![]() ![]() “But there was no price that could be put on Sounder’s voice. He derives his name-the only member of the family with a name ever spoken-from this propensity for letting anyone within hearing distance know he had successfully trapped his prey. ![]() The book ends on an uplifting note as the boy retrieves a discarded book containing a collection of philosophical essays from the garbage and embarks upon the ambition-very much not an act of cowardice at the time-to pursue an education. Within the context of the novel it is not just the content of the quote as it relates to the themes of the story that is important, but how the quote is discovered. This particular metaphor is not the invention of the author, but is taken from a quote by French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. “The road which passed the cabin lay like a thread dropped on a patchwork quilt.” “cowardice is the mother of cruelty” “The white man who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling.” Right from the opening paragraphs the author works in metaphor to develop a heightened sense of the isolation they not only feel but are intended to feel: The living conditions of the poor sharecropper family who are the protagonists of the novel is bleak and despairing. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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