Main Characters

Main characters
Authors Note: In this book I am writing to compare and contrast two characters in two different books.

In the last three weeks I have read two interesting books “The Outsiders” and “My Brother Sam Is Dead”. I realized that the two main characters in the book are very much alike. Tim and Ponyboy are there names Tim is from “My Brother Sam Is Dead” and Ponyboy is from “The Outsiders”. The characters are very much alike in how they progress throughout the book.

Tim and Ponyboy change throughout the book in how they act and the role they play in the family. Like for the both of them for Tim his dad died and for Pony boy his best friends had died. So they had lost someone that was close to them, they also were treated very much alike other people said that they were too young to do certain things because they were too young. Also the scene changes throughout the book for both Tim and Ponyboy emotionally, because it gets sadder as the book goes on because people that they loved are dying.

They are different because the stories take place in different time periods, they lost a different member in their family Tim lost his dad and brother and Pony boy lost two of his friends but in the book his friends are his family. Also they lived differently Pony boy lived on the street and Tim lived in a nice house Tim had nice things and Pony boy didn’t have much at all besides a rundown house with little money and no parents they had died also when he was at a young age the only reason he has a house to live in is because his two brothers got jobs to let them have the house.

The biggest thing Tim and Pony boy have in common is how they experience death symbolism for Tim he experiences death symbolism by his dad being arrested and dying and seeing his brother get shot, and for Pony boy he experiences death symbolism by two of his friends dying and to him his friends and brothers are his family.

In this book the two characters Tim and Pony boy are very much alike but they are different at the same time just most of their traits are the same also the stories around them and how they experience death symbolism.

Tim wanting to be a man

Authors note: I wrote this essay on the main conflict in the book My Brother Sam Is Dead and explaining the conflict and how it was resolved during the book.

In the book “My Brother Sam Is Dead”, there are many conflicts like Sam and his dad but the main conflict is Sam’s brother Tim wanting to be a man. The main conflict in the story is Tim wanting to be a man but cant because he is too young.

In the book it is easy to tell that Sam is Tim’s role model he looks up to Sam in every way and wishes he could do what Sam can do but he is too young to do it. Like going on trips with his dad to trade cows and other things for money to run the tavern. But Tim is stuck doing chores around the house like milking the cows and collecting eggs from the chickens. Or like go to college and score what they call “telling points” that I think it is an old saying for bragging rights.

But the conflict was resolved in the book when father needed Tim to go on a trip with him to sell cattle. Well on the way back something tragic happened, father got captured and Tim had to pull the cart home it was a long way too. Since father had been killed and Sam was in war it was up to Tim and his mom to do all the chores and run the tavern. So Tim had to take up much more chores and duties, but after he took the long trip home he had changed he had no longer dreaded doing chores, he was okay with them and was ready to do the extra work, therefore the conflict had ended and Tim had become a man on the inside by what he changed even Sam had admitted that Tim had changed a lot.

In the book “My Brother Sam Is Dead” the main conflict is Tim wanting to be a man like his brother Sam and as the book progresses he does become a man on the inside taking up more tasks around the house so symbolically he did become a man

Sam and his dad's fight

Point Of View
Authors note: This is a point of view essay from the book My Brother Sam is Dead. The scene that Sam had ran away from home after a fight he got into with his dad.

When Sam came home from college he had shocked his family by what he was wearing. He was wearing an American uniform and said he was going to fight the British, this shocked everyone because the Meeker family were all for the British ruling America. There was a small argument between Sam and his dad which lead to the big argument that Sam and his dad had the next day. Tim, Sam’s younger brother, had woken up to the shouts of Sam and his dad, he went down stairs to see the two arguing they were both mad and it had ended with Sam leaving and running away.

From the dad’s point of view he was mad but he was also worried, he was mad because he was ok with the British and that was what he believed in and Sam was raised with the same belief. But Sam had changed his view on the British and wanted to be free, he was worried because Sam could get killed by the British in battle and he would be heartbroken if one of his sons died, like after Sam runs away there are quotes by the dad that states he is somewhat worried about Sam, like when Mr. Heron came to the tavern and asked the dad if Tim can deliver a message to Fairfield and father said” No, I’ve already lost one son in this war and I’m not going to lose another one”.

From Sam’s point of view he wants to fight for what he believes in and he believes that the colonies should be free, so he wants to fight for his freedom as well as the other patriots. He knows that he is making his father mad by not supporting England but he changed his beliefs, he is putting his life on the line to fight an impossible war because at that time England had the most powerful army in the world, it was very improbable that the colonists were going to win and they knew that but they had the drive to go and at least to try like Sam did.

That was the point of view from Sam’s perspective and his dads perspective of the fight that happened in the book.