Bravery In Sharon Draper's Copper Sun

In the face of hardships, one must never lose courage or led to be discouraged. Amari, a fifteen year old African girl, ripped from her homeland, and forced to work on a rice plantation, finds her inner strength by not giving up on hope. Copper Sun by Sharon Draper follows how Amari endures life on a rice plantation, and all the pain she goes undergoes.

Initially, Amari needs valor to survive her dreadful and sickening trip through the middle passage to the Americas. Amari endures so many hardships during the three month voyage to America, to become slave. No sanitary conditions exist on the vile, foul ship, and no bathroom. A repugnant, loathsome smell lurks for three whole months. Being forced on the ship with so many other slaves who do

(I think this is why Sharon Draper's book is called Copper Sun, like a setting copper sun as they run away.) Amari is desperate for freedom and wishes nothing more than to run away. Polly, Amari and Tidbit, a small black boy escaping with them face starvation and peril. At one point Clay, Amari’s owner, follows them and almost captures Amari again, and tries to take her back. Many times during the detrimental and arduous journey Amari wonders if Cato, a slave on the plantation, gave them veracious advice by telling them to go south in order to escape, but she hopes and believes that it will all be fine. They have to be prudent and circumspect so that nobody sees or hears them when they pass by a nearby village. Very often the three of them run out of food and have to go nights without anything to eat. Polly, Tidbit, and Amari have to eat earthworms and grubs to survive. It becomes a ghastly and revolting meal, but they have to eat to survive. All throughout the oppressive trip Amari thinks of hope and to be free. She reminds herself that she must think of what comes ahead and how to get everybody there