“Playing the drum is my therapy” - Travis Barker. They provide stories and a space to share thoughts and feelings. Sharon M Draper uses symbolism such as drums in Copper Sun, to show the significance in villages. Draper uses symbolism, descriptive language, and comparisons to teach us the controversial history of African Americans in Copper Sun. However, when Besa notices strange men approaching the tribe, things go from celebration to devastation in a quick snap of a finger. Amari (the main character) once had a perfect life engaged to the man of her dreams. My book Copper Sun was written by a woman who was the granddaughter of a slave, award winning, and determined to not make statistics become her reality, Sharon M. Every object is a link in an endless chain and is thus connected with all the other links, (that has changed). Many people are confused about the elements in their history, the chains that were attached to our ancestors. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”-Anonymous “Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you …more
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