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Copper Sun Vs Fever 1793 Essay

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In the books “Copper Sun” and “Fever 1793” The two main characters are Amari and Mattie. The two girls from these books share a lot in common starting with their age, they are both young girls around the same age, being this young that means they still live with family, living with their families they have a lot of chores and things to do to help out.They also are very similar in their family backgrounds, In Fever 1793 Mattie’s father and grandfather both are dead and in Copper Sun Amari loses her little brother, mother, and father. Throughout both the books, Amari and Mattie had to survive on their own and constantly had to be making huge choices to either save themselves or the people they cared about. In Fever, Mattie …show more content…

A lot of the times Amari just had to go with whatever situation she was in and not resist because she knew she would either be beaten or killed. Another example is how they both took on mother like rolls for children a lot younger than them. In Copper Sun, a little boy named Tidbit was taken away from his mother and Amari chose to take him in as hers and protect and care for him along her journey of finding freedom. In Fever 1793, Mattie finds this little girl named Nell, Nell was an orphan because both her parents had died from the fever and she was all alone. Mattie chose to take her with her and care for her while trying to find her mother and get back home. At the end of both the books they are still with the children and live like a family. Mattie and Amari are similar in the fact that they both have best friends that are the opposite race than them. In both these time periods African American and white people wouldn’t associate themselves with each other and white people were very ignorant and prejudice to african americans which is why it’s one of Matties and Amaris similarities because they both are accepting and not ignorant people. Mattie and Amari are very loving and caring individuals and would do anything for the people they

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