The Role Of Emotions In Sharon 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.

One example of an emotion that Amari feels very frequently within the book is sadness. One example of this emotion was when Amari’s tribe was attacked by white men, thus leading to the white men killing most of her family and her tribe, including her mother, her father, and her

The book copper sun is a story about an african girl named amari that was sold into slavery. It is a sad story with multiple settings that all complement the point the author was trying to make. The book is written by Sharon M. Draper and has no illustrations. These settings really show how slaves were treated during these times which is quite because it was happening to one kind of people and this is probably the second time something this bad has happened. In the novel copper sun, the settings of the boat and the plantation have many differences and similarities.

The book Cooper Sun by Sharon Draper is a historical fiction story about slavery in Colonial America. This story takes place in Africa and in the Americas. Amari is a slave girl who originally lived in Africa. Polly is an endentured servant that is working to pay off her parents’ debt as well as her own. In this novel, the settings of Africa and slave plantations have many similarities and differences.

“Long as you remember, ain’t nothin’ really gone.” (Draper, 113) Those words are said many times throughout “Copper Sun” by slave woman Teenie. She did not know it at the time, but those words would soon keep her company for the remainder of her life after her son Tidbit is taken from her. She always kept Tidbit by her side while working in the kitchen and only let him go off when it was with slave Amari or indentured servant Polly. Teenie was not only an amazing mother, but also a great teacher as she helped Amari learn English and taught both her and Polly the ways of the plantation. Teenie has a big heart through the entire book and always stood up for what was right. More specifically, she was caring, selfless, and resilient. These three words define what it means to be Teenie.

Throughout the book, Sharon M. Draper used figurative language to show that family's death is hard to deal with, on top of being a slave and working very hard day to night by using similes, flashback, but most of all using a metaphor to draw the reader's attention. Eventually, Amari gets over her families death, escapes from being a slave and heads to Fort Moses, Florida, just like how in life, we get over our family's death. The inherent struggles portrayed in the book are some of the struggles we face today, and we ourselves must face them as we move on with our lives. The author showed us that slavery was a very compelling movement that caused people to deteriorated internally and externally. In conclusion, Copper Sun showed that Amari a

When she thinks of her mother, “I see her in the summertime. We spent a lot of time outside. We had 70 acres, an orchard and gardens. She had lovely blonde hair that she was very fond of, and she would wear it down in the sun. I see her

In Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper, Amari is a slave and Clay is the son of a slave master. Amari is mature for her age, but Clay is not mature even though he is older and has a higher position of authority.

While reading this book, I had different emotions going through me. I was upset, joy, shocked but mostly angry. Why mostly angry? Anger was one of the main emotions that came to me while reading this book because how can a father sell off his daughter to a man three times age. I get that’s very common in their culture but to me that seems morally wrong. Upset was another main emotion because of the abuse she went through with her ‘husband’ as with his family. Me reading about the constant physical abuse and the rape Nujood went through had me in tears when reading. It made me think about how lucky we, children living in the United States don’t suffer the way Nujood did growing up. Lastly, the emotions of shocked and joy came together when

Sadness is something that can happen to anyone and about anything. Sadness can really affect people’s lives. In “The Great Gatsby” there was sadness when Gatsby wanted Daisy to be with him again but she was still married to Tom and she was afraid to say she never loved Tom. Gatsby was also sad that Daisy wasn’t telling Tom she never loved him.George Wilson was also feeling sadness when Myrtle died because that was his wife. In “anyone lived in a pretty how town” the character no one was feeling sadness when anyone died because she loved him. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and E.E. Cummings, author of “anyone

3). This mood is disappointing, depressing, and sad since the whole city they had live in for their whole lives was completely destroyed and the chickens the boys loved were now dead. Furthermore, when Malala realizing the Taliban are targeting her, the since in very sad and sorrowful. For example, to show this mood she writes, “They looked troubled and hurriedly shut down whatever they’d been looking at”(117, par. 2), “The worst had happened”(118, par. 4), “my dear father was near tears”(118, par. 5), and “My proud, fearless Pashtun father was shaken in a way I’d never seen”(118, par. 7). Tears, shaking, and troubled indicate and represents a sorrow.

I learned many things from the assigned essays like in “Okahandja Lessons” by Emily Rapp I learned there are many ways to express emotions. In grade school we consider description to be words like sad, happy, mad, upset, and etc but, you can describe emotions through description without actually say, “She was sad.” Instead you can do what Rapp does and describe the emotion for example when Rapp writes, “Suddenly, I felt all eyes on my body. I kept looking out the window, where everything appeared unsafe, to avoid looking at the people who stared at me now. My face filled with heat as I felt their gaze and heard them murmuring.” We infer that she felt ashamed of her amputated leg. From the narrative “Dawn Chorus” by Chandra Hoffner I learned

Gera was so over joyed that she followed her heart and trusted their safety to be in the hands of the man above whoever He was, but knew and felt that He was there and real. She thought and prayed with hopes to not see her mother anywhere although she knew that if she did, she would never know anyway because once mother is out in the streets there’s no memory of the night before, the following night or nothing there after so she

Although she was just attempting to swim alone, she saw this experience as a great failure because the fear or “encounter with death” prevented her from moving forward with the goal that she set for herself. The frustration that stemmed from this experience carried to that night where she asserted herself to her husband by defying his wishes. Her assertion was her first experience of freedom from oppression.

It was something that she wasn't ready to let go. As it was the only thing that she ever knew. So that would be a little scary. But she wanted to start thinking abot her future. And she knew it was because she was living in Auradon now. Before she didn't even like to think ahead. She did everything that she could do just to survive. That was how you made it on the isle. And she also took it one day at time. As she didnt' like to plan ahead. But she was looking forward to this trip. As it was something that she was planning as she found about. And she jumped at the chance. As she knew that she missed her home. This was a dump but she was also born here. This was were she came from as she was just a girl from the isle. And that was all she was going to be known for. As she was here because of her father. There was a part of her that wondered what he would have done if she