Essay/Term paper: My brother sam is dead

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My Brother Sam is Dead Author: by James

Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Category: Historical

Fiction Summary: It starts out in the 1770's during the

Revolution War and Samuel Meeker or Sam for short just

interred the room of the tavern and he chimes in to

everybody who is waiting to eat, he comes in saying where

beating the Lobster Backs. His father, Eliphalet Meeker but

called Life for short, starts arguing with son. After a while

they calmed down and change the subject. Finally Tim

Meeker or sometimes called Timmy, the narrator and one of

the main two character's of the story in the story goes out to

the barn to milk the cow Old Pru. Witches are one of his

daily chores and ask Sam to join him. While Tim is milking

Old Pru he's talking to Sam about how has he been lately

and what is he doing back at home. And Sam tells him truth

why he is back at home, and it's to get the Brown Bess.

Which is the family's gun and Tim swears that he can't tell

Mom or Dad. Well in the morning when Sam try's to get the

Brown Bess his father catches him and they get big fight

whether he's going to fight the British or not and finally his

dad throws him out the house. While the Meeker's are at

Church, Sam goo's back to the Tavern, where his family

lives and work's and he stills the Brown Bess. Well later on

the Rebel's or the patriot's or now called the American's.

Went threw the town of Redding. Which is where the

Meeker's live. They where going door to door. Taking

peoples guns and goods. When they came to the Tavern

they where demanding for there gun. They wouldn't believe

that there son stole it and took it with him to the Rebel's

camp and they wouldn't believe him cause it was Tori

territory and that they where threatening to kill Life if they

didn't give them there gun. Then Tim ran out the door and he

ran to go get Colonel Read. Since he knew that Sam was a

Rebel and colonel read was a colonel for the Rebel's, but

when he got to where he was he saw Sam with the Gun

sleeping with it. Then he snatched it and started running back

to his house and when he was half way there Sam woken up

and was yelling him to stop but he wouldn't stop, but since

Sam was older and bigger he caught Tim right as they reach

the town of Redding. Then Tim had to explain what had

happen and Sam didn't want to go back but he went with

Tim just in case. When they got back his dad was all right

just beaten up a little bit. Sam ran out there like a bad out

hell and when he was far enough from Tim and his Dad. he

looked at them from top of Rock and waved and left. later

on the seasons pass by and in the Winter Tim and his Dad

have to go down to Verplanks to exchange cattle for money

and goods. when they where half way there they run into

some Cowboys ,(Cattle thieves) and they say there Rebel's

and notice that Life is trying to sell Beef to the Tori's. so they

threaten to kill Life and his son, and also take their goods.

well there luck comes in and some Escort's come along and

scared off the cowboys and the cowboys very where pissed.

While they get up to Verplanks, which is by Hudson River,

Life makes his trades. On there way back Life is very

catious about the Cowboys, but on way there it starts to

snow, and it makes it hard for them and it takes them and

extra day. next day Life is on the horse and he and Tim

leave. about every five minutes or so he goo's up and down

to check to see if there's cowboys coming. after a while Tim

notices that it's been a long time since his dad came back so

Tim gets to worry. so finally he gets going again and starts

thinking what is he going to do if the cowboys come up to

him with out an escort or his father with him to protect him.

Finally when he's coming along he sees the Cowboy's. he

out smarts them by acting like he thinks their escorts and

asking questions to throw them off. while the Cowboy's are

trying to play along and he starts acting like he has no food

and ask if they got some and says he needs some goods.

then the cowboys get pissed off cause they don't know if the

boy is pulling there chain or that he really has no goods.

some are thinking its not worth it and some are saying come

on lets take this punk well after them all arguing for a long

time. they start haring dogs barking and they think it's the

escorts. So they leave the boy there. when there finally gone

Tim is so happy that he out smarted the cowboys and was

thinking Sam would be proud of him. Then he gets back on

the wagon and heads home. When he gets home he tells his

mother what happen to his father and that he's been

kidnapped and probably taken to prison and its down to

Susanah and Tim to run the Tavern and do all chores. Later

they find out that Life dies from being sick in the prison ships

and him and fifty others died from the common Flu. After

that the lobster Backs come threw the town of Redding and

nobody knows what there doing. Then later they knock

down the door of a Rebel's house and take all Rebel's that

where hiding in there and they take them away. While

leaving the town Tim follows them and when they where

almost out of the area. they were ambush. by this old

farmer's house and about six Rebels's where in it. They

started shooting at all of the British troops, the British

retaliate by breading down wall killing all the men and

burned down the house. After all of that Sam's troop set up

an encampment in there area not far from town, while they

where there Tim found Sam and they where happy to see

each other since its been like two years and they had a get

together. While he visits them he tells them they should

butcher the cattle and save the meat before any of the

Rebel's take it. Even though if anybody gets caught stealing

they will be hanged. But still Tim wanted to hold on to them

and try to sell them to somebody cause that all they had that

could make them money. While Sam was visiting Tim again

they notice the cows where making some noises. Ran out the

door and Tim got all but the missing cow back into the barn

and Sam went chasing after the thief, when he caught up to

them they knocked Sam out. They accused Sam was the

guilty one and they caught him, after the whole family trying

to convince that he didn't do it the court decided that Sam

should be shot. Tim was so mad that he took his bayonet

and sharpens it as much as he can and he went after Sam.

When he got to the prison area he charged the guarded with

the sword and when guard woke up he got his gun up and

Tim threw his bayonet over the wall and said "Sam catch!"

Then Tim took off running and trying to dodge all the shots

that where fired at him. When he was going up the hill he felt

a tug in his left shoulder. It was a shot, but he kept on going.

When he was far enough he relies Sam wasn't in his cell, it

turns out nobody was and they move everybody out of

there. Finally Execution Day came and everybody in the

crowd was watching first there where two men who got

hundred lashings, then there was man who was hanged.

Then Sam was next they put a pillow case over his face the

three men hold there guns to him and they where so close

that the guns where almost touching. BOOOOM!!! The

guns went off , but Sam wasn't dead they were so close that

the explosion from the guns caught am on fire. He was

squirming around and finally another man shot him. He

stopped moving and Tim was very mad. After the war, Tim

and his mother moved out town they hated and moved to

Pennsylvania. Tim got married and started his own tavern. he

got married with children. Susanah would never ever talk or

even be nice to any American cause she lost a son and her

husband cause of this war. But she was a strong woman.

Settings: It took place during the Revolutionary War from

about 1776 to 1778 in Redding Connecticut but there where

some parts in New York in other small towns but almost

everything happen in Redding. Main Character: Even though

the book was named after Sam it all came from his younger

brother Tim. It came from Tim's point of view and he did all

the narrating, and you saw every thing threw his eyes. He

was a twelve year old boy and by time book was over he

was a fourteen year old young adult. Who was bright and

smart just like his brother but had better matters. He was

timid when it came down to scary things in the begging but

when he grew older you can see he became braver. For

example when he charge the guard trying to kill him so he

could rescue Sam. When he was younger he always wanted

to do what Sam did but when he became maturer he started

to rely that he can think for himself. In the end he is a mature

young adult who always did what had to be done with out

playing games with his mother just to get out of chores

instead he got down and dirty and did what work needed to

be done. Evaluation: I though this was a well written book it

was very detail and good storywriter but the end didn't have

a big enough bain. Like it just made it like a dull ending but

all the way up to where Tim goes crazy on the Rebel's. He

also kind of fueled you which is kinda good when u first read

this tittle you think the British killed Sam when it was

Rebel's. what kinda sucked about it is that they dragged out

to the end. which made you know what's going to happen

when ending came. that's why it was so dull cause I was on

the last page and Sam still hasn't been killed yet so I knew

right away what was going to happen. Recommendations: I

would recommend this if you want to study the sight affects

of the war. but if your like me and you're proud to be an

American, Patriot, or a Rebel then I wouldn't read this it

talks about how bad it was for the Rebel's to go war for no

good reason. When in fact it was cause later we became the

greatest country in the whole wide world. Everything about

this country is so much better than anything else so that's

why IM proud to be an American. Copyrights: 1974 to

James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. # of Pages:

211 pages including the Epilogue