Who Is The Protagonist In My Brother Sam Is Dead

The American Revolution had 2 sides of it, the patriots and the loyalists/British. The patriots fought for freedom such as freedom of speech, religion, and press, while under the rule of Britain, the Americans had none of these. While the loyalist was loyal to the king of Britain and thought the British rule economy would be stable and that British rule comes with security. The novel we are going to talk about is My Brother Sam is Dead written by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier and it talks about the American Revolution and the cost of war. In My Brother Sam is Dead, the main character Tim must decide between his father who raised him and become a loyalist, or joining his brother who was his best friend, and becoming

The way Jerry died was by being captured by the continentals or the British when they stormed Captain Betts's house who was a captain for the Patriots. They were both captured and taken to a British prison ship. The British Let Captain Bett go while Jerry got sick and died in 3 weeks. In the novel Betsy States “ They sunk his body In Long Island Sound in a weighted sack’...’So his parents can't even get him back’’(Collier pg166). By looking at this quote we can see the irony, Tim expects the British to release an innocent kid but the British do the exact opposite of what Tim expects. The impact on Tim was that he realized that every side of a war can be very cruel. This pushes Tim to be

Sam went to join the patriots and fight in the war despite his father's disapproval. The way Sam had been killed was through execution. One night while Sam was visiting Tim and his mother they heard people from the patriot's army stealing cattle for food. Sam chased them while Tim was collecting the cattle they didn't steal. Sam came back with his hands tied behind his back with the cattle thieves behind him framing him for stealing the cattle. Tim tried to prove that it wasn't Sam who stole the cattle but couldn't. The general of the group of soldiers had the plan to show what happens to people who steal from the people there trying to fight for. Sam was Executed by men shooting their guns at him. In the novel Tim see’s “Sam slammed backwards as if he’d been knocked over by a mallet. I never heard the guns roar’...’He went on jerking with flames on his chest until another soldier shot him again. Then She stopped jerking”(Collier pg208). The irony in this is that Tim expects the patriots to release Sam because he had been fighting for them for 3 years and the fact that it was his cattle but the patriots still kill the same. The impact on Tim was again showing that loyalty is not rewarded in war. This impact pushes Tim to neutral because it showed what people would do in