Lola:
In my opinion, I think that this books major theme is about the children's growing under that dark time and descrimination. As all we know, because of their skin color, they didn't lived a good life. Before the boy's father was sent to prison, the little boy still lived happily, for he didn't get to know the outsider world very well. He was under his family's protect, so he was still a carefree child. But things changed when his father was caught. The little boy got to understand a little bit of what happened to his family, and he knew that he had to grow up, for his elder brothers and sisters, his mother and father, and for himself. It was sad to grow up and do the things that didn't match his age, but life made him to do so and he even didn't have the right to choose. He went on the journey of visiting his father and searching for Sounder. This showed us the journey of the boy's growing up. On his way, he was treated badly by lots of people, but there was also some good people like the teacher who was kind to his hurts and read him stories. He went through so many things and the destination of this journey was finally growing up. Maybe this is also the thing that the writer wanted to tell us, although most of the people treated you badly, you felt it is unfair, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't believe the good things exist in our life. Every child needs and has to grow up, you has responsibility to carry on, and if others are mean to you and don't give you a help, try to be a shining sun to light up yourself. This world is so big and your life is so long, you will be treat gently finally.