My Brother Sam Is Dead

War. This word stirs up an abundance of different emotions. Feelings such as fear, pain and frustration are brought to the surface. But there is also contrasting views to this topic. When someone else hears the word “war,” they may feel power, opportunity or victory. In his novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien highlights the array of emotions that war encompasses. “War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery” (O’Brien 76). This quote perfectly illustrates how many different feelings one goes through when faced with this topic. It can be concluded

Imagine going to war right after graduating high school. How would you feel if you or your friends had to go to war right after graduating? How do you think a war would impact your life if you had to go to war right after graduating? War plays a key role in the story, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles. Throughout A Separate Peace, the outcome of the war is showcased. The impacts of war can be overwhelming and disheartening but can also be beneficial for some individuals. War is capable of completely changing an individual's life. In A Separate Peace, this message is seen when war impacts Phineas, Leper, and Gene remarkably.

The world chose to ignore war and it was only a reality to the soldiers fighting for their own lives. The passage brings forth the emotion and alienation the soldiers felt during and after the war. While the soldiers were hiding in a bunker in the unfriendly jungle of Vietnam, life continued without a second thought or concern. It was almost as if it was two completely different worlds that coexisted without the acknowledgement of the other which caused turmoil for the soldiers throughout the novel.

Kurt Vonnegut is able to put a man’s face on war in his short story, “All the King’s Horse ”, and he exemplifies that in a time of war, the most forgotten effect on nations is the amount of innocent lives lost in meaningless battle due to unjust rulers fighting each other against a nation’s will. As Americans, we are oblivious to the fact that we have people fighting every day for our country. In addition, we ignore the fact that we do a lot of collateral damage and hurt innocent people unintentionally in order to get what we want. Vonnegut shows the reader in Pi Ying’s own sadistic way of demonstrating how he feels about war brings attention to the point that war, while unruly and cruel, is nothing

If Tim O’Brien does not change something in his characters he will not make a good point on war’s effect on peoples’ life. For example, also if Mary Anne Bell and if Timmy does not change the reader will not learn something from that chapter because that in the novel Tim O’Brien was trying to send the reader message about how war and a loved person death can change and effect people in a horrible way. If a person fights in war he or she usually change in a negative way and in the novel Tim O’Brien mostly focuses on the negative change caused from war but he also talks about positive changes like when he makes friends. The theme of change always takes a huge role in many novels, T.V shows and

In the book it states on page 22,“‘You can’t order me anymore, Father I’m a man.’ ‘A man? Your a boy, Sam, a boy dressed up in a gaudy soldiers suit.’ Oh he sounded bitter. ‘Father--’ ‘Go, Sam get out of my sight. I can’t bear to look at you anymore in that vile costume. Get out. And don’t come back until you come dressed as my son, not as a stranger.’”(Collier and Collier) The war is tearing the Meeker family apart, Mr. Meeker had just kicked his son out of his house calling him a stranger. The war is making them disagree and thus making them split up. The war has forced people to choose sides. When they do, they disagree to what side is better. A quote that also justifies the claim that war is vicious is on page 71 when it states, “‘Father, why can't I carry messages for Mr. Heron? You're on the Tory side, too.’ ‘Because I said so.’ ‘That's no reason,’ I said. He stared at me. ‘If you don't stop arguing with me, I'll thrash you, Timmy.’ ‘I don't care,’ I said. ‘If we're supposed to be Loyalists, we should help--’ He slammed his fist down on the table and then jerked his thumb toward his chest. ‘I'll manage the politics in this family,’ he said. ‘Father--’ ‘Timothy, goddamn it I'm going to--’”(Collier and Collier) Tim and his father are arguing about Tim delivering a message. If the war could not have occurred and Tim had to deliver a message it would not be a big deal, but because of

In the first place, a reason why war is pointless is because it causes families to split over different sides and ideals. For example, Mr. Meeker states, “You may know principle, Sam, but I know war. Have you ever seen a dear friend lying in the grass with the top of his skull off…”

The effects of war are not temporary - even after fighting stops, an excessive number of people are mentally affected. After fighting in the war for a year, Paul returns home on temporary leave, and notices how he no longer fits in with the civilians in his town. He describes how “formerly [he] lived in just the same way [him]self, but now [he feels] no contact here. [...] They have worries, aims, desires that [he] cannot comprehend” (Document A). The last time that Paul was back home a year ago, he had not yet experienced as much death and loss as he now has.

This book begins with Sam Meeker, Tim Meeker's admired older brother, arrives in uniform at the Meeker tavern one rainy April evening in 1775. "We've beaten the British in Massachusetts," Sam exclaims, beginning a fight with Father, who is staunchly loyal to the English government and king. Sam explains to the people around the table how the Minutemen lay a surprise attack on the British "Lobsterbacks" in Lexington. Sam basks comfortably in all the attention. Father asks him a series of skeptical questions, including who fired the first shot. Sam does not know who fired first. The

One way the authors argue against war, is that war is a gruesome time; enough to make a poor boy vomit all over himself after seeing a head get decapitated. In the book, My Brother Sam is Dead, a negro slave named Ned is beheaded by a British officer with a sword. The other troops don’t even look twice. “ I had a friend bayoneted, and it took him six hours to die, screaming all the while”

My Brother Sam is Dead is a young adult historical fiction by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. The book realistically illustrates what happened in the American Revolution. Sam would steal his father’s gun for the war. Sam is a patriot and fought in the Revolutionary War. His father is a Loyalist and against Sam fighting in the Revolutionary War. Events that happen in the book are Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775), Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), and Mr. Meeker died (Sam’s father). In this essay, I will talk about the similarities and the differences events that happened in the books and reality.

The theme in the novel My Brother Sam is Dead, is that life and liberty is forgotten in war. This is shown when Jeremy Sanders is taken away for no reason when the tories ambushed his home. Another instance is when Tim’s Father, Life, had been treated very unfairly and nobody cared for his life or liberty, was when he was for selling his cattle. Sam’s life was forgotten when he was trying to save his family's cattle but then later he got framed for stealing his own cattle. That is why life and liberty is forgotten in war.

In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by the Collier Brothers, the main character Tim Meeker is divided within himself by war. Tim has seen war divide him with everything. His Father is a Loyalist, and his brother is a Patriot. He hasn’t chose his side so he is very confused. He admires his brother, and is scared of his Father.

For character of Tim war was Brotherhood of soldiers who shared same guilt, same fear, even thought they all where hiding their emotions they were all common innocent boys who shared all same feelings in war. “I envied him—all of them. Their deep bush tans, the sores and blisters, the stories, the in-it-togetherness. I felt so close to them, yes, but I also felt a new sense of separation.” (194)During war Tim’s character is turning evil, envious character who is seeking to revenge on Bobby gorgers and all soldiers cause they isolate him from brotherhood.

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.