Amari is the teenage protagonist of the novel. She was born in Ziavi, a small village in Africa, where she was raised as the daughter of the village storyteller. Amari has a bright future in her village, and at the opening of the novel, is engaged to the handsomest man in town. She is supremely happy, surrounded by the love of her parents and her fiancĂ©, Besa. All this changes when a group of strange foreigners with pale faces arrive at Amari's village. The white men unleash supreme destruction as they kill most of the villagers before setting the entire village ablaze. Amari is one of the few survivors, and she is chained up to the rest of the survivors and taken to a America for a slave auction. There, Amari is sold to Mr. Percival Derby as a birthday present for his son, Clay. …show more content… The narration fluctuates between both Amari and Polly's perspectives. To the novel, the point of view is significant so it could be easy to access into Amari and Polly's thoughts and emotions. Doing this, the reader knowldged a lot more things about each of these two characters, adding the tension between them and the eventual ratification of the racism between them. The main conflict of the novel surrounds the slavery of these two characters. One was white and the other was black. The way and structure this point of view was set, it was vacillating between them which created a deeper understanding of slavery during the 18th century.Polly pint of of view was when at the begging she didn't like slave. and thought-out the book, she started liking it and becoming cool with Show More
