However, the question of whether or not the uncertain outcomes of war are worth lives ruined is one which hangs in the back of the minds of everyone involved. The novel, My Brother Sam is Dead by the Collier brothers, tells the story of Tim, a boy grappling with this dilemma. The brutal, ironic deaths of the characters Ned, Jerry, and Sam convince Tim to become neutral.
Ned’s death was Tim’s first glance at the senseless brutality of war. A slave from Redding and uninvolved in the war, Ned dies during…
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