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Amari’s father is the head storyteller and one of the elders of her village. He’s also a skilled weaver. Amari adores Father’s stories and desperately wants to weave, like he does, but weaving is forbidden to women. Father is murdered when the Ashanti and the white men raid Amari’s village.
Amari’s Father Quotes in Copper Sun
The Copper Sun quotes below are all either spoken by Amari’s Father or refer to Amari’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 42
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What shall I do? Amari thought helplessly. She willed herself to imagine her mother who would know what to say and how to comfort her. All of her mother’s dreams of growing old and watching her grandchildren play had been brutally dashed into the dust. This child carries the spirit of my mother, Amari realized suddenly, as well as the essence of her father, little Kwasi, the murdered people of her village, and the spirits of all her ancestors.
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Amari’s Father Quotes in Copper Sun
The Copper Sun quotes below are all either spoken by Amari’s Father or refer to Amari’s Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 42
Quotes
What shall I do? Amari thought helplessly. She willed herself to imagine her mother who would know what to say and how to comfort her. All of her mother’s dreams of growing old and watching her grandchildren play had been brutally dashed into the dust. This child carries the spirit of my mother, Amari realized suddenly, as well as the essence of her father, little Kwasi, the murdered people of her village, and the spirits of all her ancestors.
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