Copper Sun By Sharon M. Draper Ch. 1 (V) Betrothed: engaged to, be married Amari and Besa had been formally betrothed to each other last year. Kente: A colorful fabric of Ghanaian origin Their fingers flew as they chatted together, the pale fibers stretching and uncurling into threads for what would become kenet cloth. Ch. 1 (Q) “Be content with woman’s work child. It is enough.” I think this is a memorable quote in which got me thinking of how different women’s and men’s jobs where and…
Copper Sun By: Sharon Draper The novel Copper Sun is a searing work of historical fiction and is action-packed, multifaceted, and character-rich. It describes a young girl’s life that was stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, enslaved, beaten, and mistreated. It expresses the different emotions that were felt as the girl went through her long and tiresome journey. Throughout, the young girl named Amaris journey, she encountered several different characters with similar but different…
Fifteen-year-old Amari loves life in her home village in Africa. She spends her days strolling along the stream, daydreaming about her handsome future husband, teasing her little brother, and avoiding chores. But everything changes the day the pale-faced visitors arrive. Everyone contributes for the celebration to welcome the strangers. Amari helps her mother arrange the food, her storyteller father shares his tales, her fiancé plays his drum, and everyone dances. But then their world shatters…
I believe that Copper Sun should be taught to future generations because it is an inspirational and informational novel. This novel instructs us about a dark time in our history, and how if we want it not to repeat itself, we should advice future generations to prevent that from happening again. Copper Sun is an exceptional good read. The book teaches us multiple lessons about how you should always persevere through the difficult times just like the two main characters in the book, Polly and Amari…
In the novel Copper Sun the viewpoints were taken from a 15-year-old slave girl named Amari, and a 17-year-old indentured servant Polly, Copper Sun is a story of the struggles in the face of human beings during slave times and a hope for freedom against all odds and circumstances. In the novel the AOI that it is portrayed is the area of Health and social education. I chose this AOI because both Amari and Polly had to adapt to their new surroundings and they also had to learn the routes around the…
and nothing more. At night if you were female you got raped often. If you were a male you worked in the rice fields, with the alligators and the snakes and if you ever disobeyed or did something incorrect you were wiped and beaten. In the book the copper sun Amari the female protagonist, goes through these hardships and has to find some reason to live and fight for her freedom. Amari shows traits of perseverance, bravery and strength. But still through all of these things she fights to be free.…
Copper Sun Compare and Contrast Essay The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a realistic story about a slave girl named Amari. Amari was taken from her village when “milk looking” men came and attacked them. The men killed the old and the young. Amari’s parents and her brother were all killed. Amari was then taken to Cape Coast and that is where she met Afi. Afi is like a motherly figure to Amari. Amari was then put on the “Ship of Death”. They were on the ship for a long time. They landed on Sullivan’s…
visitors starts taking down the village, including your little brother and your loving parents, and tears you away from your home, you realize that your fears has come to realization. Taking its title from a poem by Countee Cullen, the novel, The Copper Sun, by Sharon M. Draper is historical fiction told from the viewpoint of a 15 year old slave Amari, and 17 year old servant Polly. This novel is action-packed, multifaceted, and character-rich. Horror, fear, and sadness erupts as Amari experiences…
In Copper Sun, Amari is a happy teenage and she is a slave. She was engaged to the most handsome man in her African village. One morning Amari goes outside and her little brother kwasi was hanging from a tree being silly and Amari goes to get her mom some vegetables for breakfast and out of nowhere white men enters Amari’s village setting things on fire and killing people. After a while then men took chained and shackled her and put her into a slave ship. A few weeks later Amari was sold to a man…
Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper, is a telling of the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Amari. It tells about her being taken from her home in Africa, being sold into slavery, her tales in the house she was sold to, and her escape. Many strong emotions are displayed,especially through Amari, two that were very brightly displayed were fear and sadness. Fear is a distressing feeling or emotion, everyone will feel fear at one point, it’s caused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc. During the story…