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
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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
The author was giving a message then at the end of the poem it changes. He was giving the message that war happens to everybody and that they will have to go to war at some point in there life. The problem is that they don’t know the bourdon that it puts on the people that he has supported and been supported by until his son is sent of. He gets a totally different feeling when he doesn’t know what could happen to his son. He gets his message across by proving that every body has something to do with war wether they like it or not. Your parents might have been to war, if not them then your uncles, cousins, friends, or your neighbors(old men). Then if it isn’t them it could be your child who is going and the feeling is different, you lose the feeling of security when you cant protect your child. He
Many times in someone's life they do not understand why they are doing something. In Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, Joe a young soldier who is fighting a war that he thought he understood. He believed that he was fighting with a purpose and then the unexpected happened. He lost his legs, arms, and was left with a large hole in his face. This is when he becomes to realize that he is not personally invested in the war and that he only went because it was expected of him. This is similar to Sam from Shenandoah. He is a young confederate soldier who is called off to fight in the Civil War on the day of his wedding and is forced to leave his new bride at home to wonder if she will ever see her husband. He is heartbroken getting the news that he has to leave for war but knows he has to be strong. He is caught by the north army and is taken by train. When his bride’s brother goes missing her family goes out to look for him. Instead of finding the boy they find Sam and his wife is relieved. Sam has his realization that he doesn’t fully understand why he is in the war. Although Sam and Joe realize the truth in different ways, both do eventually understand that they weren't personally invested in the war.
223 years ago, an innocent, ten-year-old boy died on a prison ship. His name was Jerry Sanford and he lived with Captain Starr, a local Patriot. The day Jerry was captured, British troops raided the only home he had ever known and killed several of his friends including his guardian, Daniel Starr. In My Brother Sam Is Dead, one of Jerry’s friends was a boy named Tim Meeker. He was not killed the day of the attack on Starr’s house, but witnessed the deaths from behind a rock. In the story, Tim has a brother: Samuel Meeker. He was a Patriot soldier fighting in the American Revolution for freedom, rights, and glory. Sam and Tim’s parents, however, were loyal to the British Crown and disapproved of their son fighting with the rebels. In My Brother Sam Is Dead, although both sides of the war are shown, authors James and Christopher Collier ultimately argue that war is futile.
One way the authors argue against war is that it tears families apart. Mr Meeker yells, “Go Sam. Get out of my sight.
The ship was cold and food was scarce. It was no condition for a little ten year old boy. He was a prisoner of the war with little hope. Snatched out of his life he was helpless and was destined to die while others lived. He asked to himself, “Why me? Why not someone else?” His death actually happened in history, but also in the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead. It is the year 1775, the Revolutionary War is just stirring among the people and around the life of the narrator, Tim Meeker. Tim is the youngest son in a family that runs a tavern in the town of Redding. The Meeker family goes through many 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.
“Look at Europe, they’ve had one war after another for hundreds of years, and show me where anything ever got any better for them.” In My Brother Sam is Dead the authors use the war as a way to hint at the readers that they are against war. They also use Tim as the narrator to show how it is on both sides of the war. The authors (Collier and Collier) look at war like it’s their arch enemy.
“He went on jerking with flames on his chest until another soldier shot him again. Then he stopped jerking”(208). The fact Sam was killed by his own kind, affected the way Tim saw the war and the people represented in
The horrors of war were depicted by the constant threats to the characters lives, the brutal conditions of the bad weather, hunger and combat. Soldiers had to battle the enemy along with nature. Soldiers would become stressed, paranoid and start losing their personalities. As Captain Miller says, “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.” This quote shows the mental toll on these soldiers.
“If I truly believe the war is wrong, is it then also wrong to go off and kill people? If I do that, what will happen to my soul?” (pg 60). Tim O 'Brien is an American man who was drafted into the Vietnam War. O 'Brien is not a violent man and struggles because he believes that the war is wrong. He debates whether or not he should go to war or move to Canada to avoid the draft. Tim O 'Brien decides to join the army. O 'Brien uses his personal experiences as a foot soldier in the Vietnam War to convey his possible bias perspective that the Vietnam War was a waste of people 's lives and a shameful venture for the United States.
The brutality of war can be overlooked when you see the freedom that can come out of it. Most people think about the fantasy of war: Riding into battle on a horse, heroically fighting for your freedom. In My Brother Sam is Dead, written by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, Tim is forced to choose between his Father and his brother. To be a Patriot or a Loyalist.
This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through their skin and bones. It
Sam doesn’t get pulled into the corruption of power in Fellowship of the Ring because he just wants what’s best and what’s right. He never gives up, and although he’s not the bravest, he’s filled with internal strength. Even when he could’ve gone the safe route to Minas Tirith, he chose to follow Frodo to Mordor. (INSERT QUOTE) (Pg.,456 Pg;,457 Pg.
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
Tim had to get everything home safely and was forced to take over all of his father's duties. By this time many soldiers had come through Redding and killed many people, mostly friends. It was very hard for Tim and his mother to keep the tavern and chores up by themselves. Sam ended up being wintered in a town close to Redding and his mother begged him to come home but he insisted on staying in the military and fighting for freedom.
As Sam reached maturity, he was told off by his father to be unworthy of his house’s ancestral sword and was said to join the Night’s Watch and give up his family name in order to stand aside for Dickon to inherit the family’s standing; had Samwell failed his father swore he would succumb to a hunting accident within the following day which ‘persuaded’ Sam to join the Night’s Watch.