“Free? Free to do what, Sam? Free to mock your king? To shoot your neighbor? To make a mess of thousands of lives.”( ) In the novel My Brother Sam Is Dead, the authors, Collier and Collier, introduce the life during the Revolutionary War. During the novel this war has affected many people's lives. The authors explain throughout this story which side of the war they are on. The Revolutionary War, in the novel, My Brother Sam is Dead, is worthless.
One way the authors argue against the war is that war tears families apart. Sam comes home from college, “I can’t get my uniform dirty”, then he comes home from war, “Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him.” Sam goes to war with Mr.Meeker unapproving, then comes home and gets accused of being a thief and dying. Also during this war Mr.Meeker dies on a British prison ship, putting Sam in a awkward position. “In June of that year,1777, we found out that father was dead. He had been dead for a …show more content…
reality of war. “ I remembered Ned’s head jumping off his shoulders.” (153) Would you really care so much about the war to get beheaded? Ned wanted to the right to be true, so it was a risk worth taking. “Sam didn’t steal the cows, they followed him out of the accord.” (183) Did Sam really want to die? Was he being set up? He was accused of stealing his own cattle which later lead the death for Sam Meeker. The principal vs. reality of war was the final way to help the authors prove that they are against the war.
The authors of this novel, Collier and Collier, explain the war and what happened during the war very well. This talks about many main points which are, war tears family apart, the clash of generations, and principal vs. reality of war. “I have written this story down in the year 1826, on the fiftieth anniversary of founding our nation,”(209) Collier and Collier say in the epilogue. In My Brother Sam Is Dead the Revolutionary war was
One way the authors argue against the war is that war tears families apart. Sam comes home from college, “I can’t get my uniform dirty”, then he comes home from war, “Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him.” Sam goes to war with Mr.Meeker unapproving, then comes home and gets accused of being a thief and dying. Also during this war Mr.Meeker dies on a British prison ship, putting Sam in a awkward position. “In June of that year,1777, we found out that father was dead. He had been dead for a …show more content…
reality of war. “ I remembered Ned’s head jumping off his shoulders.” (153) Would you really care so much about the war to get beheaded? Ned wanted to the right to be true, so it was a risk worth taking. “Sam didn’t steal the cows, they followed him out of the accord.” (183) Did Sam really want to die? Was he being set up? He was accused of stealing his own cattle which later lead the death for Sam Meeker. The principal vs. reality of war was the final way to help the authors prove that they are against the war.
The authors of this novel, Collier and Collier, explain the war and what happened during the war very well. This talks about many main points which are, war tears family apart, the clash of generations, and principal vs. reality of war. “I have written this story down in the year 1826, on the fiftieth anniversary of founding our nation,”(209) Collier and Collier say in the epilogue. In My Brother Sam Is Dead the Revolutionary war was