Dariana Hernandez
2/11/23
Culminating writing task
Do you ever wonder how sugar impacted the world? Well In the book “Sugar Changed the World” By Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson, the authors show us and tell us by showing us illustrations, explaining everything and even the language that they used to describe how it was for the people working in the sugar cane fields and the purpose for writing the book “Sugar Changed the World” is to show how sugar impacted the world in a positive and negative way.
Starting off with the illustrations that the authors give us, in those illustrations we can see how the slaves were treated and how hard they had to work in the fields and that helps the reader understand much more and be able to view what the authors are talking about not just read about it. In the book “Sugar Changed the World” on page 28, there is a picture, and that picture shows how the people worked hard in those fields; they even said that they worked under the “hot sun”. This evidence relates to the claim because whether the
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On page 35 in the book “How sugar changed the world” the author states, “The millions of African taken to work in sugar were not taught to read and write. They were not meant to speak but to work.” “Following the strand of sugar and slavery leads directly into the tumult of the Age of Revolutions. For in North America, then England, France, Haiti, and once again North America, the Age of Sugar brought about the great, final clash between freedom and slavery.” This evidence supports the claim because the authors are explaining well so the reader can comprehend better and even get to visualize what the authors are trying to show or say. Moving on to the next