Family is essential to life; they provide help, support and encouragement. What would you do if you had lost your closest family members? Well in the book My Brother Sam Is Dead and the movie “The Patriot” the two main characters who are complete opposites except for the fact that they have lost their closest family members. While being the same in some very small ways they have very many differences.
Tim and Ben are on very different sides of the war. Tim is just a child so he doesn’t have a real say in what he believes; Tim’s dad has his say for their family so Tim in reality is a loyalist. Ben is a great and very true patriot; he wants the freedom for himself, family and generations to come. He wants to destroy and forget the British. With that difference they have one main similarity.
They both have made very heroic actions in their storylines, one more than the other. Tim made a sacrifice for his brother running and sneaking a knife to his enclosed barracks and getting shot, which was a risk he was willing to make. But he never did free his brother from death just like Ben. Ben fought many battles he also fought to save his sons and daughters; but he couldn’t save everyone just like Tim.
With that these two main characters share some things but are very different. They survived through thick and thin but still suffer the emotional and mental loss. They were both proud of many things that they had done, but you can’t bring family back and nothing will satisfy your need of them.
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