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James Finnerty
Feb 25, 2009
1. I think the author was trying to reveal in the book "My Brother Sam is Dead" that war is never fair. No matter what we do, we can't change that fact. It's not fair for Tim who has lost both his father and brother. Sam seems to have the worst luck of all, he ended up getting beat up by two of his fellow soldiers for trying to save his own families cows. It's especially not fair for Sam who was murdered by the same side he's been fighting for for 3 years! Also I think he is trying to reveal that you have to make the most of what is given to you. By this I mean, you have to live life as best you can. Never let anything or anyone hold you back from doing what you want to do.
2. Personally, I thought this was a great book. It was well written and used in words from modern times. It wasn't like slang talk or anything like that, but it wasn't using like Medieval Times words such as: Thou and Thy etc. It was an interesting book to read and it kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through. I also liked how they could explain the American Revolution in a realistic way but through a fictonal book. Also I was able to make a picture in my mind of everything they said in the story. Another thing I enjoyed about the book were the characters in it. I like how they made them a normal family with real problems. The characters were interesting and unique in their own way. I also enjoyed finding out about what life was like back then for a kid my age. It seemed pretty difficult but much more exciting than life is for a 13 year old boy today. There was nothing I didn't like about this book. Over all it was a great book to read and I would recommend this to a lot of people.
3. The person from our sister school that relate to the most would probably be Jessica. Although I relate to Jessica the most, everybody had interesting and good answers and I can relate to most of them. I relate to Jessica the most because she has similar responses to mine. One of her answers I liked was the epilogue question, "What is your reaction to the statement, 'But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, besides war, to achieve the same end.' Do you think the United States could have become a nation without the Revolutionary War?" She responded that they would have had to eventually go to war, because the British King wasn't about to give them up without a fight. I thought this was a very good and resonable response. I completely agree with her.