Unsounded By Ashley Cope Analysis

Listen up, because blogging is very foreign to me I am going to take us both on a journey through the book Unsounded by Ashley Cope. We will at least hit a few spots that grabbed my attention throughout the first volume. First off, the young girl Sette and her companion split up and her incredible nose takes her to a statue of a large woman named Fat Yerta. Sette is from a place called Sharteshane and her family is known for being thieves and crooks, it perplexes me when she stops and says, “Scuse me, Fat Yerta” (Cope 2.42). What power does Fat Yerta possess that a criminal stops in their tracks to pardon themselves? I believe it to be some eternal guardian, possibly Fat Yerta watches over all of this universe and Sette is looking to keep herself …show more content…
Secondly, Duane, the so-called attack zombie as Sette calls him witnesses a group of what appear to be his people as slaves being sold off to seal up a mine (Cope 3.25). A little girl walks up to one with some sort of candy and the slave headbutts her which scares he away (Cope 3.26). In the novel Duane takes it to heart and it appears to trouble him immensely. What I want to know is the history behind slavery and how one people rose to power over another, and if Duane is not a slave how did he avoid it altogether? Possibly because of his arcane arts he was able to escape captivation, or it could be that he started human and was turned into this zombie form. Furthermore, the imagery involved with the slave shows emptiness and disparity which makes me imagine there is no escape and the life of servitude is inevitable (Cope 3.26) The deeper meaning is that the less fortunate, slaves in this case, have family and friends, brothers and sisters, uncles, cousins, whatever it may be everyone has importance, and they should not be treated with neglect and physical