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My brother Sam is dead

The title of this book is "MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD." The author of this book is James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. The publication date of this book is 1974. This book is about a boy named Timmy Meeker and his brother Sam Meeker. Timmy has a hard time choosing which side of the war he wants to be on because his parents are on the Tories side and his brother is on the Rebels side. The theme of this book is conflict. The importance of the theme would be conflict is sometimes necessary in life.

The theme of this book is conflict and conflict is sometimes necessary in life. Timmy's brother Sam had most of the conflicts going on in the book. He disagreed a lot with his parents. His parents didn't want him going to war but Sam did. No matter what happened, he would still do what ever he could to go to the Revolutionary war. Sam is a rebel and the rest of his family are Tories except for Tim. Tim is nether on either side of the war, he tries to pick which side he is on but he doesn't want his mom and dad or his brother Sam getting mad at him. The importance of the theme of the book which is conflict, is told between Americans and English, Tim and Sam, Sam and his parents. This book would not be interesting if there were no conflicts between anybody.

The theme of conflict has always been in history. There were many conflicts in history, and one of them would be the Revolutionary war. The Americans wanted to be free from England, because we didn't want to be under the English rules. We should be able to control our own country so that is what caused the war between the Americans and England. World war II for example was in part, a conflict between U.S.A and Japan. One part of W.W.II would be Pearl Harbor. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The U.S.A brought the conflict with Japan to an end by dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan. Another example of a conflict in history would be racism. Racism has been a problem in history, because the whites used the black people as slaves, until Abraham Lincoln said that slavery must stop. The importance of the theme "conflict in history" is that conflict is needed in life.

The theme of conflict is important, because conflict is a part of life. Everybody has an opinion so somebody must have a reason to fight for what they stand for. The importance of the theme in the book would be that almost every body stood up for what they believed in. The importance of the theme in history would be that there were a lot of wars between the U.S.A its self and wars with other countries. The book does show a lot of conflicts, between countries and individuals. The reason why it is important to understand the theme is because you and everything in the world are always going to be for or against something.