My Brother Sam Is Dead Analysis

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In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier, Tim the youngest brother matures through the story. In the beginning of the book, Tim’s older brother Sam is supposed to be at graduate school, Yale. But instead he decides to join the military, not only does he want to join but he wants to join to opposing side. Towards the middle of the book the author explains how the Meeker Family is starting to break apart/divide. Part of the book the reader soon noticed the Clash of generations that is starting to form. At the end of the novel, freedom finally starts to show and explain to the reader what the Principles vs. reality is. Tim starts to realize at the end of the novel that war is not worth dying for. "There are principles involved,

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