Life before Death

The oldest boy in the family and  the bravest was Sam. He was just standing there with a red coat on trying to decide whether to go fight at war or stay home. When his dad got home he was going to tell his dad that he was going to war and then leave but his dad didn’t like that decision. The book My brother Sam is dead has a lot of similarities with the movie The Patriot.

The main similarity the book and movie had was the oldest boy wants to go to war and their father doesn’t want him too. The boy had a big decision to make but he wanted to go to war. When the conversation was almost over the boy decides to leave for war. The father was ferrous that the boy had went to war but that night they all wanted the oldest boy to be safe till the end. /

Another similarity was that with the book and the movie is that they took place during revolutionary war. Men from the families had to leave the home and go and fight. The men decided that the best way for them to fight was to hide in woods and wait for the army to come through then they would attack them. Whenever they had time the men would return to their families briefly to make sure everything was okay. The men were winning the war, so the army decided they were going to go and hunt down their families. As the war continued the men had to go home to these families more often. They found that some of their families have been killed. This was a turning point in the war because the men started to fight without thinking and hiding. So the men started to lose the war by getting killed. The army was now winning the war. 

The oldest boy acted like he was dead so that the other side wouldn’t shoot him but the main guy on the other said shot him to make sure he was dead. It was a sad glomming day for that family  and pretty  soon the war has come to the end and oldest boy did a great job fighting for freedom. The family was very said but new that the boy was happy that he fought for a long time and that he got his country freedom. The movie The patriot is very related to the book My brother Sam is dead.