In every story there is a climax, for example in the story, "My brother Sam is Dead," the climax is when Sam steals the bayonet from his father and uses it in war. The climax of the story is typically is the most intense, exciting, or important point of something. Why I believe that Sam stealing his father’s bayonet was the climax is because after that happened was when all of the excitement happened, and when things in the story started to go wrong.
The cause of Sam stealing the gun leads to his Fathers disappointment and anger. His father was certainly not pleased he stole something he considered a prized possession. At first Sam thought he was part of the family and he could take it if he wanted. At first he didn’t care if his father was mad, he was supposedly a, "man", now and wanted to be a free American, even though he was only 16. Back then, people were forced to grow up faster and it was even normal for people to be married for when there 15 or even younger. Yet Sam's father would not allow the idiotic mistakes his son was making, as he would say," he's just a child."
Later Sam realizes the effects of his decisions, the guilt finally got to him. Sam realized that he wasn’t one to steal or fight for something that he knew wasn’t right. When Sam realized that he decided he needed to return what was rightly fully his fathers, and apologize. This is when Sam started to grow up, and make manly decisions. When he comes home he finds there is conflict, but Sam did not died on the battle field he died on the same grounds from where he was raised, by being shot by soldiers, for a crime he didn’t commit. After reading this book the one word that came to my mind is, “karma.” Karma is when you do something bad it comes back to bite you. Everything that happened to Sam was all the effects of Sam stealing his father’s gun. For every action Sam made there was an opposite reaction, which in the end lead to death.
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