Sharon M. Draper changes up her literary style in this historical fiction book about a

fifteen-year-old named Amari whose village is visited by pale skinned strangers. This book goes

back during 1700’s and takes us on he Amari’s long and sad journey. Copper Sun is a powerful

novel that takes the reader on an open and deeper look at slavery. This book is perfect for young

people; it has a lot of relatable situations that people would love. The main character, Amari,

family and whole village gets slaughtered right in front of very eyes. Then she is beaten,

branded, and dragged onto a slave ship. Amari is then forced to witness terrors worse than any

nightmare and go through humiliations she had never even imagined possible. Including …show more content…
Then Mr. Derby

sends away Polly, Myna, Tidbit, and Hushpuppy away to a different plantation as punishment.

This is when Amari and Polly decide to escape and run away to Fort Mose with the help of the

doctor.

Fort Mose was a place in Florida for slave girls to escape to and be safe. Draper used this

place as a reference in Copper Sun. The book reaches its climax when Myna, Tidbit, and Polly

escape from being a slave and they try to make it to Fort Mose. They didn't expect for their

journey to be so long and tiring journey. It takes them a whole two months to get to Fort Mose.

On their journey they encounter some familiar faces and some new ones. Amari sees Besa, Besa

was Amri’s fiancé while she was still in Africa. She tries to get him to escape with them but he is

to scared after having one of his eyes pulled out as punishment for him attempting to escape.

They also ran into one of Amari’s biggest enemies, and you would never guess what happens.

This book really sets all sorts of emotions through the reader. Once you start reading you

wont be able to put it down until you are done. I love this book and would recommend this