Sharon Draper's Copper Sun

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Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is an extremely emotionally driven story. It conveys a wide variety of emotions. The protagonist, Amari, is a young woman who is living in a village in Africa called Ziavi. Amari goes through many different events throughout the book that give an example of multiple emotions. Two of those emotions are sadness and hope. The first emotion is sadness. This is the prominent emotion throughout the whole novel. I could go on and on about the different examples as to which these show up in the text. One of them is when She watched her parents die. “Amari wanted to scream, ‘Mother, get up, oh, please, get up’, but she was unable to say a word. Her mother did not move.” The sadness conveyed here is incredible. Terrible,…show more content…
In these next few paragraphs, I will be talking about the emotion of hope. hope is a very powerful emotion. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Amari starts to lose hope in herself, but later on in the book, she provides others with hope.The first example that I have is near the beginning of the boat ride to America. “‘Perhaps it is better to die,’ Amari told her sharply. Afi sighed. ‘If you die, they win, and we cannot let that happen.’” This scene conveys the image of hope that Afi is trying to give to Amari. She is so scared of the night that is ahead of her, that she wishes she was dead. Afi, who has only known Amari for a little amount of time, comforts the girl and gives her hope. The second example that I have is about three months into her slavery. “‘You know, my mama came from Africa too,’ Teenie told her. ‘She teached me what she knew ‘bout Africa food. Long as you remember, chile, it ain’t ever gone.’” When Amari notices the yams growing, she remembers back to the better times in Africa. Her mother, as mentioned in the book, made it the same way that Teenie is growing the yams currently. She remembers back to that time, and gets upset. Teenie tells her that no matter what, as long as you have something to hold, on to, you will never lose hope. My third and final example that I have for this emotion is “‘I want my

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