A Brief Summary Of Amari

Living a life in her village Ziavi, everything is nice and peaceful with a family and even having an arranged marriage, until one day, her life crumbled in a blink of an eye. Watching her nice and happy life fall down right before her eyes, as in the story, “ Villagers ran blindly into the fire, trying to escape and screaming for mercy, only to be felled by the weapons of the strangely paled men”. A girl named Amari trying to understand why she is even alive and not reunited at death with her family, as she is only to be kept as a slave trying to understand her life. As she struggles leaving a life she once had and heading in a slave ship over into the seas, where is she bought and brought to the plantation, where she is to be bought as a birthday present for the owners son. As Amari grows throughout the story trying to stay alive, going through very difficult cruelty that's unimaginable, as she escapes with a friend named Polly. Where onto a place in Florida on an adventure to her
Therefore, an important person to Amari’s life is a women named Afi, which who helped her in her journey in the slave ship over into seas, showing Amari’s true strength and who she is one day meant to be. So in this conversation Afi tries to explain to Amari once more to let her loved one go, which is the man she was one day to get married to and let him go because he wouldn’t be there for her when she is to sold and to be used in any way the owner wants. So, as in (Draper,37) Amari cries out, “Why should I endure this? Why did you not let me die in there?. As Afi says in the story, “Because I see a power. You know, certain people are chosen to survive. I don’t know why, but you are one of those who must remember the past and tell those yet unborn. You must live.” As Amari cries out asking why to Afi, she yet explains, “Because your mother would want you