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    Summarized & Analyzed: "My Brother Sam Is Dead"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "My Brother Sam Is Dead"
    Summarized & Analyzed: "My Brother Sam Is Dead"
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    Summarized & Analyzed: "My Brother Sam Is Dead"

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    “My Brother Sam Is Dead” by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier was first published in 1974. It is a young adult historical fiction novel. The book presents a realistic account of the events that took place during the American Revolution.

    Although it proved to be a highly successful novel, it was a controversial book and it was the 12th most frequently challenged book in the last decade of the 20th century. It continued to remain a challenged book in the first decade of the 21st century.

    Summarized & Analyzed: "My Brother Sam Is Dead"
    Copyright
    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Major Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJan 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370262724
    Summarized & Analyzed: "My Brother Sam Is Dead"

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      Summarized & Analyzed: My Brother Sam Is Dead

      Copyright

      Chapter One: Introduction

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Chapter Three: Major Characters

      Chapter Four: Complete Summary

      Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

      Chapter One: Introduction

      My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier was first published in 1974. It is a young adult historical fiction novel.

      The book presents a realistic account of the events that took place during the American Revolution.

      Although it proved to be a highly successful novel, it was a controversial book and it was the 12th most frequently challenged book in the last decade of the 20th century. It continued to remain a challenged book in the first decade of the 21st century.

      Although it tells about the American Revolution, it recreates a particular moment during the American Civil War from a child’s perspective. Tim Meeker, the child, is the narrator of the novel. The book is offensive on several occasions.

      The book discusses several social problems, questioning the usefulness of war as an answer to the problems that the society is facing.

      In the concluding part of the novel, Tim Meeker questions whether a nation without war can be created. The story very emphatically presents the repercussions of war on a single involved family. However, it happens to have affected many other individuals.

      For all that, it is not an antiwar novel because it is mainly focused on the maturation of Tim Meeker who idolizes his older brother and how his own abilities and principles are shaped during the wartime.

      He comes out as a person whose principles and abilities are in contrast to the principles and abilities of his older brother whom he used to adore and idolize earlier.

      Several of the characters in the novel have been taken from the actual history. It is recorded that a person name Meeker Tavern really existed in Redding. The novel describes several other individuals who lived and died in real life.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      Tim Meeker is the narrator of the novel; he is a young boy who lives in the town of Redding, Connecticut. The story takes place around the time of the beginning of the American Revolution.

      Tim is not much interested in politics, but his father is a loyalist to England. Most of the other people living in Redding are the loyalists to Great Britain too.

      Sam is Tim’s older brother. He is a very brave and head-strong teenage boy. When he comes back from Yale, he is warmly welcomed by the entire family.

      When his

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