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The Role Of Emotions In Sharon Draper's Copper Sun

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Copper Sun, written by Sharon Draper, is about Amari’s journey from her free life in Africa, to her free life down south in America through slavery. This book was emotionally driven. Amari had many different emotions from love to hatred and fear. The two most prominent emotions in the book are sadness and fear. These emotions happen a lot throughout the book. Sadness happens many times in the book, the first example I have is “Kwasi moans softly, then his hand slipped slowly from hers….A spear had sliced through his whole little body. Amari sank down beside him and held him to her. He died in her arms…. unable to weep, unable to run any longer. She hardly cared when she was grabbed by one of the strangers.” In this quote she shows other emotions …show more content…

She slumped to the floor of the the cottage”. This was really big for her because she just got freed from enslavement, then she learns that she will be reminded of that everyday of her life by this slavery child. Fear was another emotion in the book that was displayed a lot. When Amari was first taken she had many reasons to be afraid not knowing the people, their language or where they were taking her or why all of this was happening to her. When she was on the boat she had a very frightful moment it went like this, “Amari huddled in the corner, trying to make herself look like one of the children, trying to look lame or stupid or unappealing. But then someone grabbed her arm. She looked up. It was the sailor with bright reddish hair…. He pushed Amari roughly onto the floor… ‘Scream!’ the redheaded sailor yelled again, and this time he raised his huge hairy arm as if to hit her…. Her whole body shook with dread and fear.” This was fearful for her because she didn't know what was going to happen, even though she had an idea about what this sailors would do to them, it scared her and she could not understand the language so she was at a

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