The Mood of
My Brother Sam
is Dead
By: Caroline Glickert
The Mood is Tragic
The story is tragic because:
Ned’s head got chopped off by the soldiers. Pg.
145
It was also tragic because:
Their father gets taken on a prison ship by
cow-boys and dies. Pg.165
Another example of why it is tragic:
When Colonel Read came in and told Tim and
his mother that Sam’s punishment of being
accused of stealing cattle is getting shot. Pg.
192
The story is most tragic because:
Sam gets shot for being accused of stealing
his family’s cattle when he was really trying
to catch the people who did. Pg. 208
The End