Sharon M. Draper
Copper Sun is a 2006 young adult novel by Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon Draper
Quotes
- Amari loved the rusty brown dirt of Ziavi. The path, hard-packed from thousands of bare feet that had trod on it for decades, was flanked on both sides by fat, fruit-laden mango trees, the sweet smell of which always seemed to welcome her home.”
- (Chapter 1, Page 2)
- We must welcome our guests, then, Amari. We would never judge people simply by how they looked—that would be uncivilized…Let us prepare for a celebration.”
- (Chapter 1, Page 5)
- The spirit of the copper sun seemed to bleed for them as it glowed bright red against the deepening blue of the great water.”
- (Chapter 5, Page 34)
- The crowd is eventually separated, the men from the women, and shoved into a large, dark building where Amari can smell “sweat and fear…body wastes and hopelessness”
- (Page 24).
