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This book was a very superior book I do recommend to read this book. ''My brother Sam Is Dead'' is a great book if you want to learn about a story based on the American revolution.  This book is appropriate for kids and very real life.  It has modern day problems and problems that would happen back then.  If I had to rate this book out of five stars I would give it four and a half stars.

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"Making the plates jump."- page 6. Meaning is making people move/jump.

"The puddles grew coats of ice overnight"- page 45.
Meaning is it was really cold

"Not everyone's willing to play the dog to the king" page 50. Meaning not everyone's willing to be on the kings side.

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Sam gets killed, and Tim picks the Rebel's side.

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Tim resigns himself to attend his brother's public death with the understanding that he cannot save Sam.

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Tim realizes the certainty of Sam's execution and runs out with his late father's bayonet, hoping somehow to stop it. The climax is actually a moment of quiet and defeat in Tim's life, for he realizes that he cannot kill other men, and that his efforts to save his brother are futile.

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1. Sam going to war.
2. Father being lost.
3. Having a little bit of food
4.Sam dying.

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Tim Meeker  -Tim is the main character of the book he is also the the narrator of the book

Sam Meeker  - Sam Meeker is Tim's Brother Sam is going to join the army.

Eliphalet Meeker  -  He is The strong father to Tim and Sam Meeker. He unfortunately dies on the British prison ship.

Susannah Meeker  - The Mother to Sam and Tim Meeker. She encourages Sam to go to war.

Betsy Read  -  She is Sams girlfriend and the daughter to Colonel Read.

Colonel Read  - Father to Betsy Read.

Tom Warrups -  He let Sam hide in his Tee-pee.

Jerry Sanford -He unfortunately dies  on the prison ship.

Mr. Beach -  A loyalist Preacher.

Mr. Heron - he claims to be a Tory but probably works for both sides. Heron asks Tim to relay a letter for him.

Benedict Arnold  - He is captain of the Governor's Second Foot Guard.

General Putnam  -  The leader of the Rebels staying in Redding.

Colonel Parsons  -  One of Sam's officers in Redding

Mr. Platt -  Tim and Sams Uncle

Ezekiel Platt  -  cousins to Sam and Tim

Captain Betts  -  A local Patriot who is captured and then released by the British.

Captain Starr  - A local Patriot who is killed by the British.

Ned - A local man who is beheaded by the British.

Dr. Hobart -  The doctor who healed the injured.

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Lexington,

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Betsy's house

Church

Toms Tee-pee

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Timothy meeker is a young boy who lives in the town of Redding, Connecticut. During the time Tim was alive when the american revolution starts. One day Sam, Tim's brother, came home to announce that he was leaving o join the army.  Tim's Father does not want Sam to go to war. Later Sam and Father gets in a fight. Which leads to Sam stealing the gun.

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This novel is about a boy named tim and his family.  In the beginning Sam is still at college and his family is at home discussing the war that is about to start.  As Tim's family is eating dinner Tim’s brother Sam shows and announces that he's going to war.  Tim’s father was not ok with that and they started to have an argument.  It turned out that sam only came home to get the gun so he can go to war.  That night Tim and father were arguing again which lead to Sam leaving and father crying.  Father started to cry because he had been in war and war is not a joke.