Character Analysis: My Brother Sam Is Dead

“My Brother Sam is Dead” is a great book in my opinion, and many others to. The book has a great story, background, outline, characters, etc. But, some people have found things they don’t like about the book, and apparently they don’t like the reasons so much that they go and get the booked banned/challenged. They said it was because of violence, profanity, unpatriotic views/believes religious believes, etc. Banned/challenged or not, this book is an all-around good, it even got a silver sticker for being on the best books published, or something like that.

“Nobody understands it. They put him on a prison ship and he got sick and died in three weeks. It doesn’t make any sense. You can understand why they took Mr.Rogers or Captain Betts, but why imprision a ten­year­old boy?” The quote is showing how the British took a ten year old boy and let him die with no shame. It’s basically showing how an older generation could care less about letting a child die. “Yale students rushed away to get weapons and joined the war in 1775.” The students at Yale all cleared their schedule to join the war to fight for their rights.This is showing how their generation is going to fight for their rights and other people's rights. In conclusion, the authors show that they are against

Edwidge Danticat uses her memoir to show how powerful a voice is to have, how it makes a difference in not only your life, but the ones without a voice, the ones who cannot speak for themselves. In the book, Brother, I’m Dying, written by Edwidge Danticat, which tells us how her younger life growing up in Haiti with her uncle, affects her after she moves to the US to be with her parents at the age of 10 years old, this drastically changes the relationships she has with her uncle and father, creating a new family dynamic. The suggestion of voice is shown in many ways, while her reasoning is constant, Danticat faced many situations in her life that have shaped her beliefs and formed her opinions on individual standings. Danticat’s memoir

My Brother Sam Is Dead by Coller and Coller is a story about a boy named Tim Meeker and how his family falls apart during the Revolutionary War. Throughout the story, Tim is confronted with a life changing dilemma. His father is a Loyalist and his elder brother Sam is a Patriot. He knows that no matter what side he chooses in this war, he will end up fighting his flesh and blood. As the story progresses, Coller and Coller paints a vivid picture of how Tim changes from a boy to a man .

In the reading “Some Lines for a Younger Brother”, the writer brought back her memories of what she remembered from her younger brother. Sue started with the details of when her youngest brother was born. She proceded to talk about how it impacted her family and brother when her father passed away in a car accident. Her family had to move to the Manzanar Relocation Center. When the writer started talking about moving to the relocation center she started bringing in more details, this was also a main point and very big part of the reading.

Tim Meeker concludes the epilogue with,” But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, besides war, to achieve the same end” (Collier and Collier 211). Fifty years after the war, Meeker reflects on his life during the Revolutionary War with Britain and the American colonies. He has been torn between the sides of war, fought with family, experienced deaths of loved ones, and other conflicts the war has brought him. Authors James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier express Meeker’s troubles and thoughts along with lessons that the war has taught him. Tim learned from the way war affected him that war is futile.

After a few years of going to church with his family fervently on Sundays, fourteen year old Sam lost his father, which later on would describe as “Only one for passion, a military life” .

    A little ten year old boy is snatched out of his life as he was taken as a prisoner of war. He is destined to die when others lived. His death actually happened in history, but also in the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead. It is the year 1775, the Revolutionary War just stirring among the people. The narrator is Tim Meeker, the youngest son in a family that runs their tavern in the town of Redding. The Meeker family goes through lots of sufferings at the cost of war. His older brother Sam is a Yale student who goes to war to fight the British against his father’s wishes. As the war goes on life gets tougher and the Meekers experience the hard reality of war. Tim is split between the sides of war, but realizes neither side is right. As Tim goes through story the authors show the reader of the difficulties of war. In My Brother Sam Is Dead although both sides are shown, authors Collier and Collier argue that war is futile.

My brother Sam is dead The story of “My brother sam is dead” is set in Colonial America.It is set in the year 1775 in Redding, Connecticut where the story follows the main character Tim and his family going through the revolutionary war. Tim doesn’t really pay attention to all the politics and war, but his family does. His father especially is a Great Britian loyalist. The story’s first big event happens (page 13) when Tim’s brother Sam comes back from Yale. The Family is eating dinner on Sam’s first day back when he breaks the news. Sam seems zealous and

The American Revolution was a war of principles fought by Loyalists and Patriots. However, Loyalists believed in neutrality, peace, and no brutality or treason. Therefore, Patriots believed in freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and the right to break away from the British government. In the novel My Brother Sam is Dead created by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, a family disputes over which side is right. James and Christopher Collier use the ironies of Life, Jerry, and Sam's death to induce Tim's decision of neutrality.

"In war the dead pay the debts for the living," (Collier and Collier 167). The real cost of war is so great that the thought of paying the price is rather unfathomable. In My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier we get a glimpse into the lives of not only the Meekers but the people of their town and we observe the price they paid for one of the biggest and most powerful wars of our American history, The American Revolution. In this historical fiction, Tim Meeker must choose whether he wants to be a loyal subject to the king of England or a rebellious and freedom yearning American Patriot like his role model and brother, Sam Meeker. By 13-year-old Tim Meeker and ten-year-old

Decisions, Decisions The consequences of war can either have a positive or negative impact on a society. The results of war have the ability to bring together people and even nations to solve conflicts of inequality and tyranny, but war can also divide countries, nations and even families. (TRANSITION). This is what took place in Tim Meeker’s family. His father, Life, was a Loyalist and Sam, his brother was a Patriot.

was not the truth. This book showed the harsh reality of war that most people

Editha also possesses an unrealistic view of war itself as being glorious and sacred in nature. “And I call any war glorious that is for the liberation of people who have been struggling for years against the cruelest oppression. Don’t you think so, too?” (308) “I call it a sacred war” (309). Howells’s who was diametrically opposed to the idea of war, may have been subtly implying something here like, only silly young girls believe that war is a glorious or sacred enterprise. George’s mother, who has been through one war already and would be considered much wiser than Editha, holds a contrary view of war as being far from glorious and sacred as it only leaves mothers without sons and wives without husbands. At a time in which most authors were romanticizing and praising war as glorious, Howells was using realism in his story to expose war as being harsh,

He is a frightened boy against the war because of the trauma he has seen at the battle with his dad being slain and the common being slayed to by the British