How Does Sam Become A Man
Tana VanPolen
Miss Kiekintveld
7th grade L.A
May, 24, Becoming a Man “You can't order me anymore, Father. I'm a man.” In the book My Brother Sam is dead, you can tell that two people are growing up. Sam comes home from college and goes to war. Sam is brave enough to go to war and fight. Tim has also grown up after he brings home the wagon by himself without his father. Tim takes charge by becoming the man of the house. He takes charge because his father and Sam are both gone. Sam knows that he had grown since he has come back from college. He wants people to think that he is a man now because he is going to war. He thinks that you are brave if you go off to war. He also is becoming a man in the war by having to go out in the cold at winter time. They don't have a lot of food and he doesn't complain that he is hungry or cold. They push through the hard stuff that's in the war. We complain when we are cold and it is only 62° outside and we are not even working. To be in the war when it’s cold, you're hungry, and still keep on working demonstrates growing up. …show more content…
His dad was sent to a prison ship, so he had to man up and bring the oxen home. He was brave enough to leave the animals and see where his father had gone. Tim must have been scared when the “cattle thieves” were trying to kill them and steal his stuff. But he was saying that they were his escort so that they would leave him and his stuff alone. He was probably scared that night and didn't know what could happen to him. He thought though, “what would father do?”. He said because he was a man, he would know what to do in a situation like that. So he brought the cattle home and put them back into their pens because that is what his father would
Miss Kiekintveld
7th grade L.A
May, 24, Becoming a Man “You can't order me anymore, Father. I'm a man.” In the book My Brother Sam is dead, you can tell that two people are growing up. Sam comes home from college and goes to war. Sam is brave enough to go to war and fight. Tim has also grown up after he brings home the wagon by himself without his father. Tim takes charge by becoming the man of the house. He takes charge because his father and Sam are both gone. Sam knows that he had grown since he has come back from college. He wants people to think that he is a man now because he is going to war. He thinks that you are brave if you go off to war. He also is becoming a man in the war by having to go out in the cold at winter time. They don't have a lot of food and he doesn't complain that he is hungry or cold. They push through the hard stuff that's in the war. We complain when we are cold and it is only 62° outside and we are not even working. To be in the war when it’s cold, you're hungry, and still keep on working demonstrates growing up. …show more content…
His dad was sent to a prison ship, so he had to man up and bring the oxen home. He was brave enough to leave the animals and see where his father had gone. Tim must have been scared when the “cattle thieves” were trying to kill them and steal his stuff. But he was saying that they were his escort so that they would leave him and his stuff alone. He was probably scared that night and didn't know what could happen to him. He thought though, “what would father do?”. He said because he was a man, he would know what to do in a situation like that. So he brought the cattle home and put them back into their pens because that is what his father would