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                                   Mr. Hobart

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                                   Mr. Hobart

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He was the Redding doctor. Also a local man that mostly everyone knew and if they got ill while visiting in town they would go see him.

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                                      Ned

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                                      Ned

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A local black man who is beheaded by the British. He worked for one of the local men in town.

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                                 Captain Betts

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                                 Captain Betts

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A local Patriot who was killed by the British.

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                                Ezekiel Platt

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                                Ezekiel Platt

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Sam and Tim's cousin from New Salem. He was one of the cousins who had a bunch of questions to ask Tim when he first met him in person. Which was when he was traveling with father to Verplanks.

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                                  Mr. Platt

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                                  Mr. Platt

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He was Tim and Sam's uncle who lived in New Salem. He was the one who welcomed Tim and his father into the house when they were traveling to Verplanks.

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                                Colonel Parson

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                                Colonel Parson

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One of Sam's officers in Redding. He had slightly more sympathy for the soldiers rather than General Putnam.

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The leader of the rebels staying in Redding. He was the one who sentenced Sam to death.

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He is a captain of the Governor's second foot guard. He was Sam's company.

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An elderly local man. A loyalist preacher.

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                                Mr. Heron

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                                Mr. Heron

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A wealthy local man. He says that he is a Tory but he probably works for both.

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                           Jerry Stanford

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                           Jerry Stanford

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A young local boy and a friend of Tim's. He got captured and put on a British prison ship and died.

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He was an indian who was living on Colonel Reads property. He was the one to allow Sam to hide out in his teepee.

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                            Colonel Read

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                            Colonel Read

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He was the father of Betsy Read. He also was a aging Patriot. Although he didn't want to go to war.

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                                Betsy Read

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                                Betsy Read

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She was Sam's girlfriend and a daughter to Colonel Read. She was very loyal to Sam and to the Rebel cause, even though she, like all women, is forbidden to get involved with war.

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         Second External and Internal Conflict

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         Second External and Internal Conflict

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The second conflict was in chapter 14 page 208 when Tim had to watch Sam have a bag over his head and get flames in his chest as he twitches on the ground until a soldier shoots him again he stops twitching which means he died at that second right in front of his own brother, Tim was very sad.

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                 First Internal and External conflict

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                 First Internal and External conflict

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The first conflict was in chapter 9 when Tim had lost his father and when he went up and followed the tracks that's when he saw the other horse prints and knew that his father had been ambushed by the cowboys and then he got really scared and he never saw his dad again. Until he found out that he was dead and he died form a decease on one of the ships he was on for slaves.

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                               Resolution

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                               Resolution

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Tim just can't prove his brother innocent well enough for General Putnam. So one horrifying day, Sam is shot. The ending at least resolves the suspense, since we finally find out how poor Sam dies,but I can't say that it was a happy thing to work it out.

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                                     Climax

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                                     Climax

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When British troops roll into Tim's town of Redding, things get really bad. Soon after, Tim gets to see his brother Sam again. With all this going on, Tim has to decide which side he supports. The whole book had been leading up to the moment where Tim was going to need to choose which side he was on, the ones that wanted war, or the ones that wanted ot fight for what they wanted. Instead of taking sides, he decided to be anti-war.

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                                 Exposition

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                                 Exposition

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The main character Tim gets the shock of his life: his big brother announces he's joining up with the Patriots. Sam is going to join the patriots!! And Life Meeker is loyal to England, not the Colonies. For now, Tim wants to stay out of this big mess, but I could tell tough times were ahead.

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                                Conflicts/Complications 

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                                Conflicts/Complications 

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The conflicts of this story was about how bad things were always happening to the Meeker family and their friends. This all started when the war started against a bunch of places and types of people. Then at the end of the story the most conflicted part in the story was that Sam Meeker got shot from being accused for cattle theft even though they were his own cattle from home.

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                                               Setting

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                                               Setting

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The setting of this story is based on a true story and was mostly in Redding, Connecticut where the Meeker family lived during a war. The war was against the British and some other places and kinds of people. It was a pretty bad war that in the story when on for about four years.

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                                                                             Sumary

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Basically what happens in the story is that a kid name Sam who is the brother of Tim. He supposed to go to Yale just like his dad (Life Meeker)  wanted but he decided that he wanted to join the army for the war that was going on. So his dad got somewhat mad at him and told him to never come back until he becomes his son again. Then he came back home after about 3 years on fighting and he hid from everyone thinking that his mother and brother didn't like him anymore for joining the army.
The second time he came back home he ended up finding out that his dad was dead because before he came back his brother and father went to go and sell things in Verplanks to get things that they needed for the tavern that they owned so they could stay in business. Anyways they went to Verplanks but on the way back a group of cowboys that they had already seen before came back and took his father without his brother seeing, then he later found out that he got put on a ship for slaves. His father then got one of the illnesses that were being carried on the ship and died from it. Then Sam got accused for cattle theft and got shot from his own troop for it even though he didn't actually try to take any cattle because they were his own cattle from his home. That is what basically happened in the story.

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He was the father to Tim Meeker and Sam Meeker. He was a husband to Savannah Meeker. He died from being put into a ship for slaves by a group of cowboys ambushing him. He then got the sickness that was on the ship and dies from it, they say that he buried him on a island. In the beginning of the story he was mad at Sam because for all he did for Sam was to get him to live a good life and be in Yale, but Sam decided that he wanted to be in the army instead and got shot.

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She was the mother of Sam Meeker and Tim Meeker. She also was the wife of Life Meeker, didn't really have that much to do really in the story except that she only weeped when she found out that sam was going to war and when she found out that father was dead. She only drank in the story after father died until when she found out that Sam was to be shot.

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Brother of Sam Meeker and son of Life meeker and Susannah Meeker. He sort of listen better to his parents in the story, but he had a lot of secrets from mostly everyone. He also was the one who went to see his brother get shot. He also was the one who went with his father to go traveling to get supplies when his father was taken and was never seen again.

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Sam was a boy who was the son of Susannah Meeker and Life Meeker and wanted to join the war instead of being a "good boy" and going to Yale. He was the one that after a long time (three years) of being in war got accused of something and got shot.