Summary Of Sharon M. Draper's Copper Sun

In the novel, Copper Sun, Sharon M. Draper quotes a fictional auctioneer: “Do I hear more than ten pounds for this fine example of African womanhood? Hardly a scratch on her. Bright enough to be taught simple commands, like ‘Come here’ and ‘Lie down’” (52). Amari, the terrified teenager the auctioneer was talking about, was recently taken from her home, chained, and crammed into a slave ship set for America. While on the slave ship, people underwent hunger, sickness, thirst, rape, and death. Though Sharon M. Draper wrote these characters as fictional, they correctly portray people that have lived during that time period. Because of this, Copper Sun is historically accurate and correctly depicts the story of an African girl, as well as the

Isabel Wilkerson’s work, The Warmth of Other Suns, explores the search of Great Migration migrants for during the Great Migration of the 1900s. The 2007 documentary, Made in LA documents the demand for higher wages and better working conditions by Forever 21 sweatshop workers. In doing so, both works focus on individual people to tell their story about a larger issue.

Copper Sun, written by Sharon Draper, is an emotional book. Amari a teenager girl from Africa. She was kidnapped by invaders. After watching her friends and family get murdered the slave traders took her away. She was brought by a plantation owner for his son as a birthday present. Amari struggled with many different emotions. The two of the toughest emotions are confusion and helpless.

Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper, is an emotional story. Draper shows in the book how Amari, a 15 year girl who is kidnapped by slave traders and becomes a slave herself, has to endure and experience many emotions throughout the course of Copper Sun in her journey to escape the brutal life of slavery. She experienced many emotions, but two powerful emotions stand out amongst the others, which include sadness and fear. These emotions led Amari to do the things she did.

The book Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper is both a heart wrenching and heartwarming narrative story about a fifteen-year-old African girl named Amari and her journey through enslavement. She is harshly trapped by the “pale-faced” strangers in a friendly visit to their village, Ziavi, which surprisingly enough ends in a fire that destroys their village- and their people as well. Devastated by her family’s deaths and lost opportunities, she is taken down to the ship in destination to the Americas where she is expected to be worth a couple pounds. Experiencing traumatizing events like being repeatedly raped by slave owners, she overcomes many of the harsh obstacles put in her way with empowering characters such as Afi and her best friend Polly.

From the book The Warmth of Other Suns, author Isabel Wilkerson …“For all its upheaval, the Civil War had left most blacks in the South no better off economically than they had been before. Sharecropping, slavery’s replacement, kept them in debt and still bound to whatever plantation they worked. But one thing had changed. The federal government had taken over the affairs of the South, during a period known as Reconstruction, and the newly freed men were able to exercise rights previously denied them. They could vote, marry, or go to school…even college set-up by northern philanthropists, open businesses, and run for office under the protection of northern troops.”

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a interesting story about a slave girl named Amari. This book is one of the most interesting and most popular books by Sharon Draper. This book takes place in 1738 in the carolina colonies. Amari has to go threw some of the worst times in the history of america. The reader will learn what it is like to lose everything your family, tribe, and life. In the novel there are many similarities and differences between the ship she rode on and the drapers plantation.

In the books “Copper Sun” and “Fever 1793” The two main characters are Amari and Mattie. The two girls from these books share a lot in common starting with their age, they are both young girls around the same age, being this young that means they still live with family, living with their families they have a lot of chores and things to do to help out.They also are very similar in their family backgrounds, In Fever 1793 Mattie’s father and grandfather both are dead and in Copper Sun Amari loses her little brother, mother, and father. Throughout both the books, Amari and Mattie had to survive on their own and constantly had to be making huge choices to either save themselves or the people they cared about. In Fever, Mattie

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a historical story about Amari’s journey as an African being sold into slavery. She was having a good life in her village until some random milk skin people came. Her family all got slaughtered and she got captured and got sent on the slave ship and was bought buy the Derby’s. In the novel the setting in the Derby’s plantation and Amari’s village have a lot in common and have a lot of differences.

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a historical fiction story about slavery. The setting of the story is in Africa and a plantation in South Carolina. Amari doubts herself through most of the book. Amari gains strength through her awful experiences. Polly is the white girl and is the indentured servant.In the novel, the settings of Africa and the plantation have many similarities and difference.

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is an exciting story about an African girl named Amari and her journey from Africa. Amari was happy in her African village until one day the slave traders came in and killed the weak. They took the healthy people on a voyage to America to be slaves. Amari was one of the africans that got captured and made to do hard labor work. In the novel, there are many similarities and differences between Amarias village and the ship of death.

The novel, Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper should be taught to future generations. It is both an inspirational and informative text. Copper Sun shows us about a dark time in our history, one we would not want to repeat, and because of that, we should use it to advise future generations to keep it from happening again.

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 Mr.Derbys rice plantation.

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a realistic story about a slave girl Amari and her adventures.The story starts off in Amri’s small village in africa.When the story starts she is happy and her village is very peaceful and calm,and then pale faced men came and burned down the village and killed some of Amari’s people.The pale faced men took Amari and the rest of the village that wasn’t burned down to a slave ship to the colonies.The journey to the colonies is very cruel there is not much food or water,and the boat is certainly not sanitary.When they get to the colonies the slaves are taken to an auction in the town’s market.When the auction starts a man named Mr.Derby buys Amari.During her journey there were many differences between

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