My Brother Sam Is Dead Essay

The Interesting book by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, My Brother Sam Is Dead, has a very big theme. The big theme was how war impacts families. The main characters in the book are Samuel Meeker, Tim Meeker, Life Meeker, and Susanna Meeker. They have a tavern that is located in Redding Ridge, Connecticut, which is split up because of the war. The tavern is not split up War impacts many things; one of the topics that war impacts is individuals. Tim is torn by war because on pg.

“My Brother Sam is Dead” written by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier is a book about a two brothers one is named Tim and the other is named Sam. When Sam comes home from college, he tells his family that he wants to enroll in the Rebel army. His dad, Mr. Meeker, is not happy with the news, but his little brother Tim is admiring what Sam did. After that, while Sam and Tim are outside doing their chores Sam tells Tim his plan to steal their father’s gun to fight. Tim is

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. His choice made him have to steal the family's gun. Father, Eliphalet/Life Meeker, wasn't very happy with it

historical fiction novel My Brother Sam Is Dead by Collier and Collier, although both sides are shown, the authors ultimately argue that war is futile. One way the authors argue against war is war tears families apart. On (Collier and Collier 8) it says “Father lost his temper again. He banged his hand down the table once more. Sam. There’ll be no more talk on this tonight” (Collier and Collier 159). War over time will begin to break even the strongest relationships among families

to bear arms, religion, assemble, and the right to protest. In the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead written by James and Christopher Collier, a family quarrels over what side is right; Loyalists or Patriots. Tims family struggles to decide which side they’re on and Tim struggles to decide mostly because his brother and his dad argue over what is and what isn’t right. In the book my brother sam is

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

"There are always injustices, that’s the way of God’s world” (Collier and Collier). “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. One way the authors argue

hand, there are many negative aspects of war: brutality, injustice, and lose of human life. In the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead, the Collier brothers express their disapproval towards war by displaying the main character, Tim’s, life in the reality of the American Revolutionary War. Through many unexpected twist of events in Tim’s life, the ironic death of Jerry Sanford, Life Meeker, and Sam Meeker convinced Tim to stay neutral at the end of the book. Tim’s best friend, Jerry Sanford’s, death was

his family and his neighbors but I would only be talking about the different conflicts Tim has between his brother Sam, his brother’s girlfriend Betsy, and his father. The book My Brother Sam Is Dead is about a family that has been torn by war on choosing whether or not a family member should be loyal to his king . Some of the conflicts between Tim and Sam was whether or not to give Sam the gun back instead of giving it to his father, conflicts are also between Tim and Betsy which was whether

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