Freedom For Granted In Copper Sun By Sharon Draper

Freedom of love, how to spend our time, and who get to spend it with are all little gifts that many of us take for granted. The book Copper Sun by Sharon Draper, helps us see just how much we take these freedoms for granted. Copper Sun is a historical fiction work, due to its information of the slavery era and its fictional side portrays Amari’s journey as a young female slave. This book teaches us that if barriers and chains are put upon us, they must be broken no matter the situation or the motivation.

The story of Amari starts out with the tragic loss of almost all her village and her whole family. From here, Amari has many eye-openers and inquiry as to where her path will take her. She starts out being taken away from her lover and put

As a young, African-American girl, as I read, I could easily slip myself into her point of view. You feel her struggles and can imagine how you would feel in her situation. Amari faces many issues and struggles such as equality, self-discovery, and the importance of family. As a slaved, she had missed opportunities at equality that we take for granted. If she wanted to have children with a white man, her baby would be killed and she would be killed as well. She couldn’t leave the planation, take free time to relax, or anything she truly had passion for. She was able to discover herself despite the lack of equality. She found strength, wisdom, and friendships. She also discovered the importance of family after losing all of hers, but ended up creating friends so close, it was her

I could almost hear her thoughts in my head, because Amari reminded me of myself in some ways I would’ve handled slavery. I believe that this book provides every reader their own personal lesson from it. The book as whole can be a self-revealing experience about your morals or gratefulness, but I would like to read a sequel to it. Copper Sun is just the beginning of Amari’s journey and it interests me as to how much her life would be effected by going through what she did and how she lives after making the decisions she made. The language in the book was very interesting because it was historically true. Instead of “Master” the dialogue was very southern and broken and was pronounced as “Massa”. Also in chapters 9 and 10 when Amari is learning English, her English is very broken and informal. Sharon Draper helped transport readers to the time period with the informal language which I found very interesting to read, along with her use of imagery. I began to visualize each character in my head as I read. She was very descriptive with the setting, characters, and emotions throughout every situation. I found myself getting lost in Amari’s and Polly’s thoughts and wondering how I would’ve felt in their shoes. The first and last chapter you read involves the “Copper Sun”, and the “copper sun” is a symbolism