Against the War
Wars have been a huge and devastating part of making the world what it is today. In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, the brutalities are heightened. They wrote about the division of families, the clash of generations, and how principle faces reality. The authors give the allusion that they are against the war that is raging rapidly threw the colonies. One of the main ideas of the book is how families get divided. There is a quote on the back of the book that hints this, “The Revolution was tearing Tim’s family apart.” (Back Cover Collier and Collier). Tim’s brother Sam left his family to fight for the Patriots, but ended up leaving his family in ruins. Everyone has different thoughts about the war. Families lost their loved ones, their …show more content…
No one was safe from it. Sam was only 16 when he joined the army, but at this time, Sam was not considered a child anymore. “Of course Sam was a grown up himself.” (Collier and Collier 9). This caused tensions to rise in his household. His father, Life, was very upset. He had a very different opinion about the war. Everyone did. “Yale students did rush away to get weapons and join the war in 1775.” (Collier and Collier 214). When the war started, the young men at Yale gathered weapons and joined the war. All of the generations had different thoughts about the war, but some were not realistic.
In this book, realities and principles are twisted. The authors wrote a fictional story about what actually happened. Many people that were on the Patriot side expected freedom to happen in the blink of an eye. They expected that just because they had the courage to say something about it, it would change, but no. The Revolutionary War took years and years. People had to risk and lose their lives for freedom. Although they got what they wanted, at the the end of the day, was all the destruction and lives lost worth
Wars have been a huge and devastating part of making the world what it is today. In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, the brutalities are heightened. They wrote about the division of families, the clash of generations, and how principle faces reality. The authors give the allusion that they are against the war that is raging rapidly threw the colonies. One of the main ideas of the book is how families get divided. There is a quote on the back of the book that hints this, “The Revolution was tearing Tim’s family apart.” (Back Cover Collier and Collier). Tim’s brother Sam left his family to fight for the Patriots, but ended up leaving his family in ruins. Everyone has different thoughts about the war. Families lost their loved ones, their …show more content…
No one was safe from it. Sam was only 16 when he joined the army, but at this time, Sam was not considered a child anymore. “Of course Sam was a grown up himself.” (Collier and Collier 9). This caused tensions to rise in his household. His father, Life, was very upset. He had a very different opinion about the war. Everyone did. “Yale students did rush away to get weapons and join the war in 1775.” (Collier and Collier 214). When the war started, the young men at Yale gathered weapons and joined the war. All of the generations had different thoughts about the war, but some were not realistic.
In this book, realities and principles are twisted. The authors wrote a fictional story about what actually happened. Many people that were on the Patriot side expected freedom to happen in the blink of an eye. They expected that just because they had the courage to say something about it, it would change, but no. The Revolutionary War took years and years. People had to risk and lose their lives for freedom. Although they got what they wanted, at the the end of the day, was all the destruction and lives lost worth