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    Collier and Collier argue in their book My Brother Sam is Dead, set in the Revolutionary War, that war is futile and pointless. 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…”

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    book My Brother Sam is Dead is written by the Collier brothers. It takes place during the American Revolutionary War. Tim Meeker is the protagonist and narrator of the story. Tim has an older brother named Sam Meeker, a father named Eliphalet(or Life)Meeker, and a mother named Susannah Meeker. When Sam comes back home from college to Redding, Connecticut. Sam says that he is a Patriot, and Father gets very mad. Father gets mad at Sam because Father is a Loyalist, and feels betrayed that Sam is a

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    My Brother Sam Is Dead My Brother Sam Is Dead is a very historical book. It has many things that happened in history, or more specifically, the Revolutionary War. One of the many things is that Sam and his dad vouch for different sides. Many families during the Revolutionary War have members who disagreed in the sides that fought and the reason why they fought. Sam wanted their freedom from the British because it wasn’t fair for them to not be free while the rest of his family was loyal to the British

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    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

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    Why did the Deaths of Jerry, Life, and Sam Provoke Tim to become Neutral? War can impact the future in untold ways. For example, war can give the future generations a life to prosper in. War can show us how to love and care for eachother. In the end, war can overcome a substantial issue that people have been dealing with for years. On the other hand, war can lead to humongous destruction. It can cause us to hate each other. War can cause us to become greedy animals. It all depends on the outcome

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    chaos, mob rule, eschewing treason, and the brutality of the perfidious war. Moreover, the Patriots believe in the liberation of verbalization, the liberation of religion, the liberation from tyranny, and liberate from taxes. In the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead, a family struggles with the cull of being a Loyalist or a Patriot. War is gloomy because of the iniquity of Life, Jerry, and Sam’s Death, all of which induces Tim to be unaligned with the Loyalist and Patriots. First, Life’s Death causes

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    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

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    My Brother Sam is Dead is a novel that is written by James Lincoln and Christopher Collier; is historical fiction; and was based during the Revolutionary War that focuses on a family in Redding, Connecticut, with two boys; the oldest, Sam, and the youngest, Tim. During the first couple of chapters, the book explains that Sam, was a Patriot, and their father,Life, was a Tory that was mad at all Patriots including his son; because of this, Sam runs away to war. This novel’s main character,Tim was not

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    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

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    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

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