After reading Copper Sun by Sharon Draper, I would definitely recommend this book. I would recommend this because it tells you about the real life of slaves in a brutal but truthful way. I also think it is important to read because you learn about all the trade and life a slave endures. Draper exposes the true life and meaning of an African slave. Draper takes you on a journey from the eyes of a young teenage girl named Amari. Amari was a little girl that had a wonderful family, mom, dad, and little brother. The village they lived in was small and easy to commute from place to place. However, one day white men came forth from the Americas where they took most Africans as slaves. The remaining slaves withdraw on an atrocious excursion to the Americas. Amari is inflicted on many journeys both exciting yet terrifying. Another reason I would recommend you read this book would be because it is gripping and compels you to read on. This book combines the best of both worlds: the good and the bad part of life. It also enlightens your mind because Draper uses real feeling to create a certain mood and I find that she explains the cruelty one can do very accurately. I definitely recommend this book to all readers even if it is just to open your mind to the acts one can put on another.
Question 5). In a movie based on this book, I would choose this piece of music played this way for a particularly significant moment (explain) and why:
By the way this question is going to ruin the ending!!!!
(I would play quiet African music with some sentimental feeling)
Amari, Polly, Tidbit and the dog have finally reached hope, freedom. Their journeys have ended and are starting new ones in a life they will all enjoy and live as themselves for themselves. They have reached Spanish Territory, today know as Florida. Polly, Tidbit, and the dog stay at their new shelter while Amari and a woman, she has just met, go on a walk. The woman tells Amari of how many slaves come her to be free and of all the ways of the Spanish. Que music, Amari finds herself looking into the distance into the land she survived and traveled where the beautiful copper sun starts to set and where Amari's new journey know begins.
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At the beginning of the summer I was going to read this book, but then decided against it. I still have the book and I'm not sure whether or not I should read it or return it. So I have two questions for you; what is one reason that you would not recommend this book? And what were some of the emotions that you felt while reading this book. Because personally I find that emotion's is what compels me to read on.
Well, one reason I would not recommend this book would be because the author, Sharon Draper creates a wall of depressing and gloomy tone throughout the book. She also describes the horrors of what the slaves went through, mostly being disturbing, so if you do not like such agitated behavior I would not recommend this book for you.
In this book the emotions I felt would be sadness and anger because of the horrific details and acts Draper describes to form this novel. Another emotion I felt would be happiness because of the ending.
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