Dalton Schenk
Mrs. Goff
English III
06 October 2015
Amari’s Copper Sun In the face of hardships, one must never lose their courage or be led to be discouraged. Amari, a fifteen year old girl, is taken from her family in their village, Ziavi. She is taken to the Carolinas in the Americas and is sold to a rice plantation owner for his son’s sixteenth birthday present. Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper follows how Amari finds her inner strength and endures life on the plantation, and all the pain and suffering she undergoes. Amari is courageous, hopeful, and determined. Initially, Amari needs courage to survive the dreadful, sickening trip through the Middle Passage from her home to her new one in America. She feels desolate and melancholy as she is forced on the ship with so many others who didn’t have an idea about of their fate. As she journeys to her new life as a …show more content…
After arriving at the plantation home, she learns more English. She also starts working with Teenie, Tidbit, and Polly and some other slaves. She becomes closer to Polly, the white indentured servant who is paying off her parents’ debt. Both Polly and Amari make a plan that Mr. Derby, the spiteful plantation owner, does not find out about his wife, Isabelle, had an affair with Noah, her bodyguard and slave, and that the baby belonged to him. Both the girls help deliver the newborn and is instructed to hide her with Sarah Jane, another slave who had a baby not to long before. They inform the master the baby was stillborn and deformed. He finds out about the baby when Clay brings her from Sarah Jane’s home. Mr. Derby then kills the baby and Noah in front of Isabelle. Amari stands with great polency and great astonishment to behold the scene. She learns then she must be hopeful. “… You know, certain people are chosen to survive. I don’t know why, but you are one of those who must remember the past and tell those yet unborn. You must live.” (Draper
Mrs. Goff
English III
06 October 2015
Amari’s Copper Sun In the face of hardships, one must never lose their courage or be led to be discouraged. Amari, a fifteen year old girl, is taken from her family in their village, Ziavi. She is taken to the Carolinas in the Americas and is sold to a rice plantation owner for his son’s sixteenth birthday present. Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper follows how Amari finds her inner strength and endures life on the plantation, and all the pain and suffering she undergoes. Amari is courageous, hopeful, and determined. Initially, Amari needs courage to survive the dreadful, sickening trip through the Middle Passage from her home to her new one in America. She feels desolate and melancholy as she is forced on the ship with so many others who didn’t have an idea about of their fate. As she journeys to her new life as a …show more content…
After arriving at the plantation home, she learns more English. She also starts working with Teenie, Tidbit, and Polly and some other slaves. She becomes closer to Polly, the white indentured servant who is paying off her parents’ debt. Both Polly and Amari make a plan that Mr. Derby, the spiteful plantation owner, does not find out about his wife, Isabelle, had an affair with Noah, her bodyguard and slave, and that the baby belonged to him. Both the girls help deliver the newborn and is instructed to hide her with Sarah Jane, another slave who had a baby not to long before. They inform the master the baby was stillborn and deformed. He finds out about the baby when Clay brings her from Sarah Jane’s home. Mr. Derby then kills the baby and Noah in front of Isabelle. Amari stands with great polency and great astonishment to behold the scene. She learns then she must be hopeful. “… You know, certain people are chosen to survive. I don’t know why, but you are one of those who must remember the past and tell those yet unborn. You must live.” (Draper