In this book, everything is basically centered around Tim. He has an older brother named Sam, who is a patriot, while his father and mother are loyalists. Sam’s father and Sam argue constantly about Sam going to war and fighting for the rebels. Sam is pretty stubborn and hard-headed about it, almost like his father. Neither one of them would give into the other ones reasonings. Sam’s father felt like her was perfectly fine being ruled by the King of England. He was against the war overall, so he definitely didn’t want Sam to go fight in it. Sam didn’t feel the same way that his father did. He thought that it wasn’t fair to be ruled and taxed by England without America having any say or anything in it. Sam just wanted freedom from the King.
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Free to do what, Sam? Free to kill your King? To shoot your neighbor? Where have you been getting these ideas?” Sam then tried to explain to his father by telling him “why should they get rich off of our taxes back in England? They are 3000 miles away, how can they make laws for us? They have no idea how things are here” Sam’s father kept losing his temper and he ended up dismissing the conversation. Father thinks that the King had everything under control and he didn’t mind being taxed. Sam just didn’t like the fact that England could make the laws for the Americans when America was it’s own
Free to do what, Sam? Free to kill your King? To shoot your neighbor? Where have you been getting these ideas?” Sam then tried to explain to his father by telling him “why should they get rich off of our taxes back in England? They are 3000 miles away, how can they make laws for us? They have no idea how things are here” Sam’s father kept losing his temper and he ended up dismissing the conversation. Father thinks that the King had everything under control and he didn’t mind being taxed. Sam just didn’t like the fact that England could make the laws for the Americans when America was it’s own