My Brother Sam Is Dead | Setting
My Brother Sam Is Dead opens in April 1775 with the first battle of the American Revolution, the Minutemen's defeat of the British in Lexington, Massachusetts. The story ends a year and a half later, when Sam is executed by his British captors. The reader learns in the last chapter that Tim is telling the story in 1826, when he is sixty-four years old, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Most of the novel's action occurs in Redding Ridge, a once peaceful Tory town in southwestern Connecticut. The town becomes embroiled in bitter turmoil, and the war's...
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