My Brother Sam Is Dead

Do ethics, personal beliefs, and family have an effect on your identity? The historical fiction novel, My Brother Sam is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier is about a young boy named Tim Meeker and his journey through the American Revolutionary war. Tim’s older brother Sam is a Patriot but his father, Life, is a Tory. This causes the main conflict in the story for Tim to become either a Patriot or a Tory. The author conveys the message doing what's right through the use of different

you have to worry about new things like rationing money and food. In the historical fiction novel My Brother Sam Is Dead by the Collier brothers, we learn that war can divide and destroy individuals, families and communities. War can divide and destroy individuals. For example, when Mr. Heron asks Tim if he wants to deliver a message for him, Tim jumps at the chance seeing an opportunity to tell Sam a good tale. On the other hand, father doesn’t want him to go due to the fact that he could get hurt

stand with Britain. Some chose not to stand on either side and remained neutral. Through threats and violent attacks, people were forced to choose a side. In the novel My Brother Sam Is Dead, it describes the different viewpoints and decisions of a character who decides to stay neutral in the war. The ironic deaths of Ned, Life, and Sam induces Tim to be neutral in the war. The irony of Ned’s death influences Tim to be nonbelligerent. During the onslaught of Captain Starr’s house, one of the house’s

people into their worst selves. Tim Meeker debates whether he’s a Patriot or a loyalist. In My Brother Sam is Dead, Tim experiences injustice, war, and death. Tim chooses if he wants to be a loyalist or a Patriot, even though they had done horrible things to his friends and family. At the end of the book, Timmy decides to be neutral because of the ironic deaths that war has brought, such as Ned, Life, and Sam. Ned, a Negro slave, was helping Captain Starr fight against the British when he was stabbed

shows the amount of patriotism that each person from either side had. Although throughout My Brother Sam is Dead there is an obvious show of side of the characters, the side the author’s chose is not directly stated. Since there is not any direct statement telling us which side they are, readers can use context clues and the themes to find out. Through a lot of evidence, I believe that in My Brother Sam is Dead , although both sides of war are shown, authors Collier and Collier ultimately argue that

the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead, the character Tim doesn’t know whether to support the Rebels or Tories. Tim is confused because he doesn’t know whether to be loyal to Sam, his father, or Mr. Heron. There are conflicts in the story between Tim and other characters. The conflicts Tim has with Sam, his father, and Mr. Heron is that he doesn’t know who to be loyal to. The conflicts Tim and Sam had was that Sam was on the Rebels side. Tim didn’t know whether to follow his older brother footsteps or

become a Patriot. For example, Tim in the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead, struggles to make a decision to become a Patriot or a Loyalist . First, Life’s death causes Tim to not choose the Loyalist side. Tim

attacked, or losing their loved ones in battle, like we see in My Brother Sam is Dead. In the novel, the ironic deaths of Life, Jerry, and Sam convince Tim to stay neutral, because of the insensible

Plenty of Tim’s traits were revealed through the Colliers’ utilization of setting and scene throughout their novel, My Brother Sam is Dead. To reveal one of Tim’s earliest characteristics, the Colliers focused on making the Meekers’ tavern in Redding the introductory setting where Tim was introduced. In making the tavern located in Redding, the authors attempt to develop Tim’s immaturity. Because it takes a long time for the war to come to Redding, Tim has plenty of time to pick a side. In choosing

families to be torn apart. Depending on how greatly a person is affected, individuals choose how to view war; particularly, in My Brother Sam Is Dead, James and Christopher Collier write about Tim’s horrendous experiences during war. Tim’s decision to be neutral is ultimately decided when war inflicts death upon his friends and family; in this case, Ned, his father, and Sam. Ned’s death, in war, motivates Tim closer to neutrality. Tim was so disgusted by Ned’s death that he couldn’t bear to watch;