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King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.Sounder south line, departing Seattle for Tacoma at 6:10 a.Amtrak trips (see schedule below).New Video: Sounder and Ableton Live!This article is about the book and film named "Sounder".For other uses, see Sounder (disambiguation).Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.His father is a sharecropper, and works hard for very little money.One day, the boy smells something delicious cooking in the kitchen: a nice big piece of ham.The father, however, has stolen the ham, and soon afterward, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for theft.As the sheriff drives away, Sounder chases after his car, and receives a shotgun blast in his face and side.When the boy visits his father in jail, the guards treat him unfairly.On Christmas, he brings a cake that his mother has baked, and the guard reduces it to "a box of crumbs" while looking for a file or weapon.After the boy passes the inspection, the guards let all the white guests bring whatever they want into the jail.When the family hears that the father is being transferred to another jail in the South, they can no longer visit him because no one will tell them where he's been taken.He does not find his father, but he sees a group of convicts working hard in the sun behind a fence.He goes home and asks his mother for permission to go to school.Afterwards, he goes home for good.One day, old Sounder, who sleeps most of the time, comes to sudden life as a figure slowly approaches, dragging one side of his body.In 1972, Sounder was made into a film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal, and Eric Hooks.It was written by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt.Kevin Hooks directed and Paul Winfield played the role of the teacher.This page was last modified 04:11, 17 January 2008.Additional Sounder trains operate on some Saturdays and Sundays for travel to and from Seahawks games at Qwest Field and Mariners games at Safeco Field.Both stadiums are a short walk from King Street Station.Everett to Seattle line started with a Seahawks Game train on December 21, 2003.June 6, 2005 to help increase ridership, and a third was added in September of 2007.In 2008, Sound Transit will open Mukilteo station.By 2010, Sound Transit plans to have 4 Sounder roundtrip trains on the North Line.The South Line began service with two roundtrip trains on September 18, 2000 with stops in Tacoma, Sumner and Auburn that terminated in Seattle.Puyallup and Kent stations were added February 5, 2001; with Tukwila being added March 12, 2001.South Line in 2002, a fourth in 2005, and a fifth and sixth in 2007 (one peak, one reverse commute) to handle ridership growth.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
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