Summary Of Copper Sun By Sharon Draper

There is a African girl that watches her village being killed and captured.Her name is Amari. One day she was playing around with her brother but that night she watched her whole family be killed. She was so shocked she couldn’t move she just sat there. She ended up getting captured. She was put on a boat and sold into slavery. She found another slave who helped her way to being able to escape. Through this book Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper it is very emotional and historically driven. Its shows the hardship that slaves had during the trip to the American Colonies and what they had to do so the American can be lazy and not do their own farm work. The emotions that are in this book is happiness and sadness. The first emotion is happiness,kindness,and peacefulness because in the first chapter Amari and her brother is happy messing around and just …show more content…
She saw people of the village be killed and enslaved . All of the home were burnt. It was a horrible sight to Amari and to pretty much everyone seeing their village with burnt houses, blood puddles and etc. When she being transported they put shackles on them. When someone fell they all did and it hurt they would get cut. When on the boat the crew would throw salt water at the slaves wounds. The boat was so unsanitized that rats were passing by Amari’s feet. When Amari was bought and brought back to the plantation at night the son of the owner would call her up to his room and do god knows what to her. She and a other slave would severe the cook and gather food and other things for her. When the wife of the owner would pass by she was what helped the slaves survive this mess. The saddest part is when the wife had given birth to a black baby because she and a slave were in love. When Mr. Derby who is the owner found out he killed the slave who was the father of the baby and killed the