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My Brother Sam Is Dead Essay

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In the book My Brother Sam is Dead, Sam goes off to war. Before he went home to his family to tell them the news that he joined the patriots. Life is Sam’s father. He is a loyalist but Sam is fighting for the patriots. Sam thought that he could steal the Brown Bess, a gun to go fight in the war with but Life would not let him have it. They got into a fight why Sam should not go to war but Sam doesn't agree with his father. Life is correct that Sam shouldn’t go off to war a play soldier boy and go and get himself killed. Life has three major reasons why Sam should not go off to war.

First reason, is because war turns men into beast. They go crazy during the war. They are normal men going into the war but coming out of the war if they do come out alive they are beast and they are mentally unstable. In the book his father tells him that war turns men into beast. Sam didn’t believe Life …show more content…

When war ends everybody is either dead or wounded. The soldiers go crazy in the war because they have to watch their best friend die and all they can do is pray to God and hope their best friend makes it though. In the book Life tells Sam how it is going to be if he goes off and fights. Life says, “ Have you ever looked into the eyes of a man with his throat cut and blood pouring out between his fingers, knowing there's nothing he could do.” The quote shows how tragic death is and what Sam is going to deal with in the war. Sam would have to deal with the fact that he saw somebody die and couldn’t do one single thing about it. Life also said,” What parent would want to see their child dead and they told them to stay out of the war but they didn’t listen and they got themselves killed. In every war there is people that die and their parents have to deal with the fact that they let them. Life didn't let Sam go off to war but Sam went anyway. Can you see how life is correct and just doesn’t want his son to get killed over a

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