Little Brother
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is an intriguing and futuristic novel. The main character Marcus Yallow is a teenage boy living in San Francisco who is targeted as a terrorist because of his advance knowledge of technology. I think the most interesting and important aspect of the novel is that Marcus is trying to advance and let free the locks on technology and therefore human liberties but the government is accusing him of being a terrorists. In the Declaration of Independence it states “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”, Marcus is trying to do just that. All the people around Marcus don’t understand that the government is suffocating the people by spying and watching there every move. Marcus is trying to free the people and let them know what the Government has kept from them for there own use. The novel also shares some parallels with the book call 1984, both books talk about the government being “protective” over society by watching everyone all the time, everything they did was monitored and recorded.
A scene that exemplifies that the government is overbearing on citizens and there rights is when Marcus and his three friends get captured by Home Land Security, and are held hostage. The kids are beaten and threatened by the government.
