Little Brother - Character Archetypes

The main character's name in this book is Marcus Yallow. Marcus is most like the hero in this book because in the beginning, Marcus and his three friends were captured and imprisoned by the Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) for being suspects of a recent terrorist attack on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. When they were let go, Marcus swore that one get his revenge on the DHS for imprisoning and humiliating him and his friends. He also wants to stop the DHS from putting up security cameras all over the city and adding to the police force and making them much more strict. To do this Marcus stars an online resistance against the DHS called the Xnet. Marcus and the people from Xnet (Xnetters) go around the city swapping security cards for cars that the DHS had installed so they could see where people were at all times, to throw them off. When Marcus is released by the DHS with only two of his friends he says "I want us to fight back,"(73,Cory Doctorow). Marcus is the emerging hero in this book and is continuing to develop into the archetypical hero.

Little Brother - Connections to Real Life

The part where the four frends feel the earth shake and then they see a huge black cloud of smoke rise up in the distance reminded me of when I saw the broadcasts for the Nine Eleven attack on the television. "A huge black cloud rising from the northeast, from the direction of the Bay."(Cory Doctorow, Little Brother 33).

This event in the book reminded me of 911 because the way that the book described what was going on, it seemed like there was chaos and panic in the streets of the city. Everyone was running for some kind of shelter, there were sirens going off throughout the city, and every kind of emergency vehicle driving around the streets. This seemed a lot like what was going on in New York City when 911 happened. This also reminded me of 911 because when the four friends saw the smoke rise up from the where the explosion happened, it made me think of all the dust that was blown through the streets when the towers fell.