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.