Sharon M. Draper's Copper Sun

The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper is a interesting story about a slave girl named Amari. This book is one of the most interesting and most popular books by Sharon Draper. This book takes place in 1738 in the carolina colonies. Amari has to go threw some of the worst times in the history of america. The reader will learn what it is like to lose everything your family, tribe, and life. In the novel there are many similarities and differences between the ship she rode on and the drapers plantation.

In the novel, Copper Sun, Sharon M. Draper quotes a fictional auctioneer: “Do I hear more than ten pounds for this fine example of African womanhood? Hardly a scratch on her. Bright enough to be taught simple commands, like ‘Come here’ and ‘Lie down’” (52). Amari, the terrified teenager the auctioneer was talking about, was recently taken from her home, chained, and crammed into a slave ship set for America. While on the slave ship, people underwent hunger, sickness, thirst, rape, and death. Though Sharon M. Draper wrote these characters as fictional, they correctly portray people that have lived during that time period. Because of this, Copper Sun is historically accurate and correctly depicts the story of an African girl, as well as the

In Copper Sun, Sharon M. Draper presents the idea that often, hopes and aspirations are the only things that can motivate someone to keep living, even when the conditions are worse than death itself. This theme is prevalent throughout the entirety of the novel, showing its importance as it allows for the reader to understand the struggle of being captured and sold as a slave, and preserving through the unjust treatment, only having their memories and faith to inspire them to live. Firstly, on the boat to America, Afi was informing Amari that at nights the European males take the women and force them to perform sexual acts, and Amari was discouraged and wanted to die, Afi responded to that and said, “‘ I should welcome death, but I cannot-

The book is written from the point of view of various heroes by using different characters’ personal experiences and descriptive emotions before and during the tragic war. This has allowed the reader to grasp the situation through the eyes of those who has experienced it. Shaara describes

Copper Sun Copper Sun, by Sharon Draper, is an emotional roller coaster of a story. The novel is about a fifteen year old African girl who was kidnapped from Ziavi, her village in Africa, and sold into slavery. Throughout her journey she faces a wide range of emotions. The most powerful emotions in the story are fear and happiness. There was a lot of fear in this book such as; “Amari looked with horror at what was once her tribe's village.

A world of peace and love is all anyone ever hopes for. Imagine having to say goodbye to your country because of war. Feeling safe is one of the most important things in life. You need to feel safe for a place to be home. “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls”(Hosseini 347). In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the characters are threated in the country they call home, because of war. The cultural aspects, character storylines, and themes of the book is what make this book a cultural lesson.

The most integral part of life in Afghanistan is the ability to carry on through difficult times. War in this country leads to devastation and loss, but they still hold onto hope and keep going. Throughout the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila have numerous relationships they persevere through by having the strength to do so. Afghanistan has difficulty and overcomes tough times stemmed from long years of war. The most common theme in A Thousand Splendid Suns is strength and perseverance, as shown through the characters’ relationships and growth.

Heroes are the people who demonstrate qualities of courage or outstanding achievements and are recognized for their influence in the society. Heroic characters are defined similarly in literatures as well. In the two literatures, Sundiata An Epic of Old Mali and The Odyssey, the main characters shape the plot the stories by their heroic abilities. The literatures also tend to illustrate how heroic qualities were perceived and portrayed in societies. Both characters come from different part of the world yet their plots are similar to each other. The protagonist from two literatures is on a quest to go home and to claim their ancestors’ throne, which is righteously theirs.

“Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that’s alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon’s eye, grieve not (Hosseini 365).” A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, is a story that is set place in modern-day Afghanistan. It is one depicting the lives of two particular women who live under the control of a persecuting husband and the infamous rule of the Taliban. And through these two women (Laila and Mariam), Hosseini creates a mind-blowing, awe-inspiring adventure of regret, despair, tragedy, and more importantly, redemption. The book begins with separate perspectives of each woman, and how they consequently come together in the same

Personally, the book taught me a lot about how people deal with situations when under pressure, people’s need for power and how easy it really if for a war to break out and I found that in my mind I could easily link what was going

The graphic novel is a book that tells the story about the childhood of an Iranian girl named Marji, while instantaneously attempting to display what the Iranian people are like in

The title of the graphic novel I choose to read during the summer is called Persepolis. Persepolis follows the life of Marjane Satrapi as she lives in revolutionary Iran. The plot of the story is Marjane’s growth and development as a free minded woman in a close minded country that is trying to restrict her freedom to be proud as a woman. Marjane’s life is best portrayed through the use of splash panels and pages, captions, and open panels.

The graphic novel portrays Marjane Satrapi as an opinionated, imaginative, and curious young girl. The plot details her as an average ten year-old girl in the midst of a revolution. Her reaction to the environment in which she lives in

Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis is considered a “coming of age” story based on her experiences growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. This graphic novel explores the life she lead in Tehran which encompassed the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Undergoing life with such a chaotic environment, it took Satrapi courage to act and live as her “authentic self” and explore what it meant to her to be authentic. Similar to Aristotle, May and Medinas Persepolis examines the concept of courage, through the view of innocence; through Satrapi’s childhood.

The major theme or message of this book is that it about becoming free and breaking your chains at whatever cost. This book centers around a assassin Celaena Sardothien a beautiful woman in her twenties but don't be fooled by her good looks if she wanted to she could kill you in a instant. Celaena was eventually captured and taken to the mines were she tried to escape and got further than anyone before her. This almost escape spark the interest from the king were he became fascinated with her. The king has her drug into court and gives her two options stay in the mines and die or do his dirty work for five years. Shes conflicted on the choice because she thinks she can escape the mines which would take less time. I express this in my poem by