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My Brother Sam Is Dead

The ending was not at all what I had expected even though, looking back now, it was heavily hinted towards in chapter 13 where Sam continuously talks about the cow thieves and tells Tim to get rid of them before they are stolen. To be honest I didn’t really like the ending, it was not what I would have expected or thought would happen. My real problem with the ending is that the mother (Tim and Sam's) gave up all hope, telling tim he might as well get himself killed too. I really just hated the ending because instead of wrapping the book up and tying it together it more or less caused chaos. With Sam being convicted a cow thief, being shot for it, and his mother giving up hope was, in my opinion,
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