The emerging hero in this book, Marcus, did not refuse his call to adventure. He was called to adventure after the DHS released him from their captivity. Marcus had realized that the DHS still had one of his friends. He swore that he would get his revenge on the DHS and take them down one day.
When Marcus got home that day, he worked all night setting up and making the Xnet secure (the online resistance group against the DHS), so that everyone on it could talk to each other without the DHS being able to monitoring them. As Marcus began to settle back into his old life he began to hate the DHS even more, they had taken over the city and were monitoring everything anyone did. Marcus continued working on Xnet, every night he would improve it and blog about what he thought about how DHS was ruining peoples lives.
As Marcus continued with Xnet he was starting to have some second thoughts about Xnet. His two best friends that had been captured by the DHS with him did not want to take part in it because they felt that it was too risky and it might end up in them getting captured again. Marcus' father also thought that what the DHS was doing was making the city better and a safer place to live in (he did not know that the DHS had Marcus in captivity). The DHS eventually started to catch on to Xnet and what they were doing, and this worried Marcus because he did not want to go back to their prison.
Marcus and the Xnetters would go around swapping the identity cards that the DHS had on cars to keep track of where people go, to throw them off.
"They only get away with it because the normals feel smug compared to the abnormals. If everyone was getting pulled over, It'd be a disaster. No one would ever go anywhere, they'd all be waiting to get questioned by the cops. Total gridlock."(Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 125)
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