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Copper Sun Theme Essay

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For my themes I chose Survival and hope, without hope they wouldn’t have survival. The reason they ended up okay in the end in Copper Sun was because they never gave up hope and never stopped trying to survive. In copper sun survival was a major theme in the book. When Amari first was enslaved and taken from her home, she met this woman named Afi, Afi told her “I see power in you. Certain people are chosen to survive. I don’t know why but you are one of those that must remember the past and tell those yet unborn, you must live.” Hope was also a theme presented in Copper sun. At the beginning when people started dying and getting afraid and wanting to give up Amari said, “As long as we have life, we have hope.” It shows how strong of a person …show more content…

She also never lost hope when her grandfather died and she had no one else. She always figured out a way to survive and never lost hope. From fever I think Mattie has the most significant roll, she never lost hope and was always doing things for others and staying positive. When her grandfather was sick, she helped him, she helped take care of Joseph’s children when they had the fever, and she also took in a little girl named Nell because she was all alone with no family even though Mattie was a child herself. Mattie was the main character but that’s not why she was the most significant, she was important because she had a lot of character development from the beginning to the end and showed a lot of importance throughout the book. Cruelty was show a lot in both books, Copper had a ton more cruelty with the slavery, people killing others, people abusing others, forced starvation, and inhumane things nobody should ever have to go through. The cruelty in Fever was family members letting their loved ones die and kicking them out on the streets because they were ill, it also showed cruelty with fake doctors and people robbing others and the havoc on the

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