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The Bitter Side Of Sweet Literary Analysis
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” - Frederick Douglas. The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan, and Iqbal by Francesco D’Adamo are both about children fighting for freedom out of slavery. Both books contain many characters, but the two books have 2 characters that are very similar. Those characters are Amadou from The Bitter Side of Sweet, and Iqbal from the book Iqbal. But besides the characters, there are lots of similarities between the two. There are also a lot of differences between the two.
The Bitter Side of Sweet is about 3 kids called Amadou, Seydou, and Khadija trying to escape a Cacao bean plantation in the Ivory Coast. Throughout the story, the 3 meet new friends along their journey. The 3 also learned to care for each

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