Sam Meeker is fighting the British in the war, and Father is somewhere kidnapped by the British for no clarified reason. Climaxes in stories are the point of no return in a story because one the climax occurs, nothing will ever be the same. The climax of My Brother Sam is Dead, would be when Sam and the British come to Redding.
Father and Tim were riding home from their trading by the Hudson River with some other people. On their ride home, Father rode up the road a few miles to make sure there were no more cowboys up there to cause any more trouble. Father was jumped from the cowboys and Tim had to make it all the way home all by himself. On the other hand, Sam had been fighting for 2 years in the military. The climax is when the British troops come and camp out in Redding, but then they decide to attack the Generals in Redding and take hostages is when the real point of no return takes place. It sort of seems like everyone becomes a little bit tougher and more defensive when the British attack and the Continentals come and camp in their houses.
The consequences of these events, are good people being killed, slaves mauled, and innocents being captured and held hostage. Some great examples of these events are when Ned (slave) gets his head sliced off by a British troop, when Jerry S. was captured and held hostage and eventually died of sickness in a British ship, and last but definitely not least, when Father was jumped and later murdered. All of these events have effected the people in Redding more than you could think. Although Redding is a Tory town, they fought against the British like true soldiers on their first trip to the country in search of food and weapons.
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