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A soldier's narrative at war
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“Principles Sam? You may know principles, Sam, but I know war.”(Collier & Collier) There are so many disagreements but the ones between the Meeker family were very unpredictable. “My brother Sam is Dead” has many parts of the Meeker family splitting apart. It also has clashes of generations. Most of all it has principle's vs reality. War can affect the people fighting and the people that aren't.
When the story begins, Sam is coming back from home with some news. He chose to join the war for freedom, but father disagrees.” In my house I will decide what constitutes treason. What have they been teaching you in college?” father said angrily (Collier & Collier). Then Sam took a big risk by talking back to his dad. Mr.Meeker that he
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had enough and decided to kick Sam out of the house.”Stand back Sam or I will shoot you in the stomach,” Tim shouted as Sam was getting closer(Collier & Collier). Tim threatened his own brother to save his father. Tim's father was going to get killed and Sam wouldn't even give up his gun. He would pick having the gun over saving his own father that is about to die because of him. Last but not least father dies from a disease. Mother and tim have been waiting for him to be back but one day he figures out that he isn't alive anymore. They said he died on a british prison ship from a disease. War is so bad they take away your family and keep them on a ship to die. “I couldnt Tim, How could I not go when all my friends are going?” Sam explained (Collier & Collier). The reason Sam was thinking about going to war was because his friends were going. “Have you ever saw a dear friend lying in the grass with the top of his skull off and his brains sliding out of them like wet oats?” father said to Sam (collier and collier). Father was explaining how bad war was to Sam because he doesn't want him to be apart of it. He knows something that Tim and Sam don't know about war and it sounds like he doesn't want to say it. Even after Sam's father was trying to convince him to not go he still went to fight. When Sam takes the gun from father he tells Tim not to tell anyone especially father. When Tim and Sam walk from the tavern to the house Sam waits for Tim to go to bed so he can tell his father about the gun. His father does not allow him but Sam is too selfish to just give it back. He takes it with him to a campground so he can fight with it at war. When Sam joins war he doesn't realize what it can do to his family and friends.
Even if he is fighting for freedom deep down he really doesn't want to get killed. Fighting for freedom won't always endup the way he wants it to. “By January of 1776 food was getting to be a real problem for us too” (Collier & Collier).The tavern business is running slow, and there is less food for family and friends. Tim thinks war isn't bad but really his most loved ones are gone because of it. Sam, father, his friend Jerry and Ned die from one cause, war. Everyone of them die from the British except for Sam. He dies for stealing his own cattle.” He went on jerking with flames on his chest until another soldier shot him again. Then he stopped jerking” (Collier & Collier). On the trip to Verplancks point Tim and his father run into some cowboys. Father tells Tim to go to the trees and everything will be ok. At the end the cowboys take father away and Tim is all alone. He thought they could have a fun time taking the cattle but really at the end he has to go back to the tavern by himself. He runs into cowboys but tricks them that there is something coming there way. Tim and mother think that father is going to come back and it is just going to be like always but then they figure out he died from a disease on a British prison
ship. Even if you aren't the one fighting in war there are consequences. The Meeker family split apart a lot but they alway apologized at the end. They also have many generations that argue or do thing differently. The most often seen is principle vs reality, like when Sam thought fighting for freedom was going to be so easy. My Brother Sam is Dead had many minor themes but the main idea of it was that war is bad.
When Sam goes out late to leave the camp he was at during the war, he goes home to talk to his family and then he hears sounds outside and he finds patriot soldiers trying to steal his family's cattle and Sam tries to stop them. later when he returns to his camp he is accused for leaving the camp and for stealing property, and general Putnam decides to execute him and he dies. When Tim finds out he is very devastated.
Which is the family's gun and Tim swears that he can't tell Mom or Dad. Well in the morning when Sam try's to get the Brown Bess his father catches him and they get big fight whether he's going to fight the British or not and finally his dad throws him out the house. While the Meeker's are at Church, Sam goo's back to the Tavern, where his family lives and work's and he stills the Brown Bess. Well later on the Rebel's or the patriot's or now called the American's.
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But life is not a fairytale. Standing there lonely, having no job is our Sammy. This is when Sam realizes his path, the true way to become mature. The moment when “Lengel sighs and begins to look very patient:” Sammy, you don’t want to do this to your mom and dad” (Updike) hold him back a little bit, we can feel the regret in his heart. But he cannot go back anymore, decision has been made. He gives up his last chance; from now on, he’s on his own. Sammy finally understands that it is responsible behavior but not playing “adult-like” game that will make him a true
In the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead, by James and Christopher Collier, they teach that there are many other ways to solve conflict besides war. War is violent, disgusting, and gruesome and so many people die in war. Families separate in war because of how many people want to be in the thrill of the war and also how many innocent family members die in the midst of war. Lastly, war is worthless and it was caused by a disagreement over something little and the outcome of war is not worth the many lives, time, and money and there are other ways to solve conflict besides to fight. War causes so many negative outcomes on this world that it needs to be avoided at all costs.
One way the authors disagree towards war is the separation of families. Throughout the book, many families were torn apart, leaving the rest weeping for those who left them. “Go, Sam. Go. Get out of my sight. I can’t bear to look at you anymore in that vile costume.” (Collier and Collier 22). The quote depicts Sam’s father
about the war and his lack of place in his old society. The war becomes
When Sam Meeker returns home from college in the spring of 1775 and announces that he has decided to enlist in the Rebel army, his parents are appalled, but his younger brother, Tim, is wide-eyed with admiration. When the brothers are outside together doing chores around their family's tavern, Sam confides in Tim his plan to steal their father's gun in order to fight. Tim protests, but he can do nothing to stop Sam. That night, Mr. Meeker and Sam have an argument about the war and Sam runs away from home. The next morning after church, Tim visits Sam in a hut where he is hiding out. He tries to talk Sam out of going to war, but without success. In the hut, Sam's girlfriend Betsy Read asks Tim which side he supports, and Tim has trouble deciding
As you go through the journey of life you begin to realize the many obstacles you have to over come but what charts your growth is home you over come them. This quote resembles the story of My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. Brothers Christopher and James have been writing historical fiction for young people since the early 1970s and have been known as masters of the genre. This book was named a Newbery Honor Book in 1975 and recently received a Phoenix Award. It has also taught an entertaining glimpse into a teenager's life in colonial times. Using real dates, people, and historical events it has a almost reality based story to grow and progress as a character of the American Revolution.
	The novel illuminates light on the situation not just during the Vietnam era, but also rather throughout all history and the future to come. Throughout mankind’s occupation of earth, we have been plagued by war and the sufferings caused by it. Nearly every generation of people to walk this earth have experienced a great war once in their lifetimes. For instance, Vietnam for my father’s generation, World War 2 for my grandfather’s, and World War 1 for my great-grandfather’s. War has become an unavoidable factor of life. Looking through history and toward the future, I grow concerned over the war that will plague my generation, for it might be the last war.
to deteriorate the human spirit. Starting out leaving you're home and family and ready to fight for you country, to ending up tired and scarred both physically and mentally beyond description. At the beginning of the novel nationalist feelings are present through pride of Paul and the rest of the boys. However at the end of the war it is apparent how pointless war really is.
In the novel War Brothers written by Sharon E. McKay, she developed all the characters to serve her themes and idea meant from the novel which will be further analyzed. She used Jacob to show that despite the bad situations, he didn't let their friendship down. Similarly, Hannah evolved through the story positively after their friendship progressed. But in contrast, the writer wanted to imply through Tony's new personality after losing a friendship, which was in a negative form. Each character in War Brothers was metamorphosed in a different outline, but to serve one, or several similar messages.
Freedom is a positive outcome of war that people wish to achieve, but do people consider the negatives too? Major loss can come with the brutality of war. In my My Brother Sam is Dead the author helps you explore the negatives of war and the tough decisions for a young boy living through the American Revolution. The young boy, Tim, had to choose a side, to part with his brother as a Patriot or obey his father’s wants and be a Loyalist. After many traumatic events, including the harsh deaths of Jerry, Sam, and Life, Tim decides to stay neutral.
With Jim and Wilson by his side, Henry and his men with different outlooks on the war will fight and be the ideal team. Being the youngest of three men Henry desires honor along with a high reputation and will let nothing stand in his way. Jim was pragmatized about war. If the other soldier's were going to fight he was going to fight with them. Being classified as the "Loud soldier" and transitioning to a more mature man, Wilson undergoes many trials. These hardships show him the true meaning of life and how insignificant his life when there are other lives in the mix. As war wages on these men will fight for their own personal cause's and together will strive for a victory.
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