My Brother Sam Is Dead By Tim Meeker

The way Tim has changed throughout My Brother Sam Is Dead is a significant change. At the beginning of the story Tim thinks “I can’t wait tell me and Sam a lying in the attic and him telling me about Yale®. Gosh I really want to be like Sam.” As you can see Tim want to be like Sam. When Sam left with the brown bess Tim thought Sam should stay home. In the middle Tim wanted Sam to be home. Tim started changing when father died. In the middle/end Father and Tim went to get rum from a town Father got taken away by the Redcoats/Cowboys. The Merkers except for Sam are Torys/Loyllets. Tim started doing more chores. One day when Tim was eating breakfast he did not complain about chores. He usually would complain about chores and delayed breakfast.

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 small family of four, living in the Tory town of Redding. Life was great Mr. and Mrs. Meeker owned a small tavern that supplies their town with food, rum, and supplies. Their son Timmy helped around the tavern and did chores, because his older brother Sam was off at college. Everyone in Redding was close and knew the Meeker family, they all admired how they had raised Sam and Timmy. Every year after college was over, Sam would come home and visit, except one.

Mr. Meeker enumerates, “A man? You’re a boy, Sam, a boy dressed up in a gaudy soldier’s suit” ( Collier and Collier 22 ). An explanation for what Father is saying is that Sam, who is young and inexperienced in combat, should not go to war because of his puerility in thinking about the illusion of prestige in war. Furthermore, Sam’s rebellion against his aged father incites a conflict that pits a generation of young against old. Additionally, the authors state, “Yale students did rush away to get weapons and join the war in 1775” ( Collier and Collier 214 ). In detail, the Yale students are the young generation of people that consist mostly of Patriots fighting in the war, but older generations, like Mr. Meeker, do not want a war because of the consequences that they experienced. Furthermore, Sam, symbolized as the youthful generation, is more eager to join the war while the senior generation know of the repercussions and are more reluctant in joining the rivalry between the colonists and Great Britain. Altogether, a clash of generations is what makes war so

War can destroy and divide individuals. For instance, when Tim is asked by Mr. Heron to deliver a secret message, but his father doesn't want him to. The reason Tim was doing this is because he wanted to impress Sam, but father wouldn't let him because he could get lost or hurt. When Tim said,” … I didn't mean I have any opinion.” This shows that he doesn't know if he should go

“ A starving man will steal from babies” (Collier and Collier 173). War is horrific and it has a dreadful impact on people. Authors Collier and Collier describe the Revolutionary War in their book My Brother Sam is Dead. The authors portray both sides of the war thoroughly, but they ultimately argue that war is gruesome, separates families, and it is unfair.

Tomorrow When The War Began is a well-known novel written by the Australian writer John Marsden, detailing the seige of Australia by an unknown power. In this book, the author draws out both the inferior and superior side of the characters in the various circumstances faced during war. This is clearly illustrated at the beginning of the book when the characters Homer, Kevin and Ellie take a journey to Hell. However when they returned, they realised that they were involved in a war. To suit this sudden realisation, they changed both their approaches and attitudes. These significant character changes reveal a completely different side of them, resulting in the considerable difference of character even when accompanied by their closest companions. Consequently, their friendship was brought to a whole new level. All of the changes is attributed to the realisation of the war, and it would be true to say that war brings out both the worst and best in people.

Have you ever heard the saying "war turns men into beasts"? I’ve never heard it until I read the book “My Brother Sam is Dead.” The theme of that book for me is war turns men into beasts because Susannah (Mother), says it when people died, got kidnapped, or stole cattle from others. The main character, Tim Meeker, had an older brother (Sam Meeker) who decided he wanted to fight in the war.

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.

After Sam’s death, Tim’s ultimate decision is that there is no justice, is very unreasonable, and is not worth the value of life; influencing Tim to view 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.

The first way the authors argue against war is that war tears families apart. In the book, Sam and Father do not get along. Father is against war while Sam goes to fight for the Patriots. “You may know principle, Sam, but I know war” (Collier Collier 21). The quote argues that both Sam and Father have different points of views on war. Sam tells his little brother that he is going to take the

War impacts many things; one of the topics that war impacts is individuals. Tim is torn by war because on pg. 127, Tim says, “Having father gone was strange. The tavern seemed cold and empty.” The reason I can infer that Tim is torn is because he has been attacked by Patriots and saved by Loyalists. He also doesn’t know whether to follow Sam or father. Father

A lesson that Tim had learned from everything that happened was to overcome hardship. Tim went through more hard things in a few years then most people will in their whole lives. Tim lost his father (Life) who he had looked up to mightily and he also lost his brother Sam (pp.164 and 208). Both Sam and Life were two people that he looked up to a lot

After reading the story, “My Brother Sam Is Dead”, Tim felt his loyalty has been falling apart between him and Sam. In the story Sam refused to go with Tim to the tavern to help