This is my character analysis for the book My Brother Sam is Dead. I analyzed a man named Life.
Life is the father of the two main young men in the story My Brother Sam is Dead, by Christopher and James Lincoln Collier. He is a strong willed man and is never willing to change his views on life, even when coming from one of his sons. Throughout the story, he goes through several fights with his eldest son, neighbors, and even his wife, but never changes his position on the Revolutionary War. I believe that he stays strict to his beliefs because he was raised traditionally and doesn't completely understand any other ways of life. His actions affected the story because he decided to trade cattle with British troops, but had to go through rebel cowboys to get there; doing so got him captured and later killed in a British prison ship. This event changed Tim, his son's, views towards being a loyalist or a Patriot. "[Tim] has lost sympathy for both sides."
I feel that Life is like Miss Hilly from The Help, because they are both a little headstrong and won't change their beliefs toward controversial topics. Miss Hilly won't change her views that white woman were better than "the help", even though, I think, she started to get that she wasn't correct. Overall, I think that Life, if he would have lived longer, still would not have changed his side in the war, or at least wouldn't have said it out loud.
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