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Hence, it served a purpose as a source of her strength and hope that she has humanity throughout

feelings of others, even Daisy who he loves, in order to get his happy ending.

wonder if he is really interested in her or just this idea he has of

was right in front of them. They both were blinded and didn’t realize what they really had.

Draper’s novel, Copper Sun, focuses on many motifs but a common motif is the ability to be empathetic. It is the root of a large portion of character development in the novel. It affects every character the book. An array of characters demonstrate empathy such as Afi, Teenie, Polly, and Mrs. Derby. All of these characters connected with Amari on an emotional level no matter how small.

and doesn 't listen to her. He doesn 't like communcating with females and his perception of her is that she is just an

Even though he is closer to her (in a geographically sense) she is not yet aware of his desires or even his presence.

Violet Weston is the mother of the Weston girls. Violet plays the role of the addict in this family. She exhibits erratic, irresponsible, anger and abusive behaviors towards her daughters throughout the film. Violet has a tendency to play the victim when addressed about her usage of prescription pills. Violet will use when others aren’t around but her behaviors once overly medicated are apparent that she has a legitimate problem with drugs. Violet has no issues with telling one how it is without any regard to their feelings about what she is say. Violet demonstrates poor communication with her daughters as a result of her usage of prescription pills. As the film progresses, it illustrates how severe Violet’s problem is when he daughters find out she several doctors providing her refills on the pills she was abusing. Violet tied up with her own addiction to secrecy, ultimately pushes away all of her out of the home and her into the arms of the at home housekeeper.

b. Titus shows us his LACK of APPRECIATION when he feels that going to the moon is “null”.

She has known full well of his potential violence yet sticks around out of loyalty, in addition to the fear of what he might do if she tried to leave.

This broke his relationship even more with her, and she no longer likes

Which means he is completely off-limits. She knows it, he knows it. It’s completely forbidden.

The only thing I did not like was at the beginning he was so focused on how when he first saw himself in the mirror as a black man. He hated it and how it was repulsing. He looks noting like the old John Howard Griffin and he had step in a new man. I know he was trying to make a point that it was a shock. But it almost made me not what to read the book. I will give him credit for putting all his thoughts into the book.

For the pre-assessment, I will hold a discussion with the students on what they know about astronauts, including what is needed for travel to the moon, how astronauts stay safe and what tools they use on the

This is something that I thought he did wonderfully; as the book continues and he grows older, his perception and understanding of the world change along with his writing. So while he is writing