My Brother Sam Is Dead

War has been a constantly occurring event throughout history, from the strife between Homo sapien tribes to terrorists in modern society. However, what if there was some way to achieve the same ending without contentions of war? This is what who can be assumed as brothers and pacifists, James and Christopher Collier, are trying to tell us through their novel, My Brother Sam is Dead. The example they use is the American Revolution. So many people, innocent or evil, were killed. “My Brother Sam is Dead” takes us through these events using the perspective of Tim Meeker, a young boy that watches the war completely change his life. In my Brother Sam is Dead, although multiple sides are shown, authors Collier and Collier ultimately argue that war