My Brother Sam Is Dead Character Analysis

What Is The Main Idea Here?

“War is hard, boy. Sometimes we do a lot of things we don’t want to do. A lot of very good men have been killed in this war, and all we can do is hope that it’s been worth it” (Collier and Collier 193). In the Revolutionary War, there are things one can not control. Even if one has such power, others may take control over that as well. Many deaths have occurred, and we can not change that. In My Brother Sam Is Dead, although both sides of war are shown, authors Collier and Collier ultimately agree that war is futile. There are many different horrible things that happened with some of the background characters in My Brother Sam Is Dead. Take the character, General Putnam, for example. General Putnam was an American General, the head general. He took in Sam, his own soldier for stealing his own cattle. The reader would have thought that Sam would have been taken in by the British, but he was taken by the colonists. The reader also thought by reading the story, that Sam would have

These two characters represent the theme, Clash Of Generations. Mostly, all the younger residents in the town, Redding, would steal their families guns and head to war as Patriots. The adults, however, are mostly Tories, the British. Eliphalet Meeker, the father of Tim Meeker and Sam Meeker, is a Tory, or as Tim first believes. Sam Meeker is a Patriot, at 16 years of age. They both die in the most unexpected ways readers wouldn’t think of. Eliphalet is captured by cowboys, who claim to be Patriots, while riding back from his trip to Verplanks Point to get more supplies for his tavern. He ends up on a British prison ship, and ends up dying on it. Readers would have thought that he would have died on a Patriot ship, and not the British’s ship. As said previously, Sam Meeker was brutally executed by his own side, the