Analysis Of Sam And Life In The Book Of My Brother Sam Is Dead

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Sam and Life in the book of My Brother Sam is Dead argue a lot , but I think it is because they are so much alike. Whenever Sam comes home from Yale he tells his family about an attack which makes his father mad. Later that day Sam told Tim that he was going to have to take their family gun the Brown Bess. Sam and his father had a argument about the Brown Bess and after the fight that was the first time Tim had seen his dad cry. Later Sam took the gun and went to the war. Tim and Life went on a winter trip to trade goods and Life got captured by cow-boys and died in a prison ship. In the very end Sam was shot for supposedly stealing cattle.

First, one reason Sam is right because the other colonies were ready to fight. “They say the

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