Little Brother Setting

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Book → Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - Cyber Fiction Novel
Setting
The plot of my novel takes place predominantly in the transformed city of San Francisco, where the authorities are right up in your nose and government officials have no sense of national security. The world aboard the Internet is also the location where many of the events in this novel occurred. Plans, news, games, this is where Marcus and many of his followers lived. With these places used as the settings, it creates a mood of insecurity, as one can not live without having a constant feeling of being watched. An example of this would be when a female officer tells our protagonist he will be forever watched, “You are a marked man. Do you understand that we can watch you …show more content…

He is the protagonist of the story and the head of the rebel group against the Department of Homeland Security. He is a seventeen year old student who has been able to outsmart his school, Cesar Chavez High (1.14,18,20). With his knowledge of computers and coding, he goes under the aliases “wln5t0n” and “M1k3y” and leads his supporters through the Xnet. He meets the love of his life, Ange, during a party at the beach (10.161).

Angela Carvelli→Commonly referred to Ange by closed ones, she is also fond of computing. She is in love with Marcus and provides him with emotional support. She is the first one to approach Marcus at the party and provides her “key” to him (11.167). She loves to eat spicy food (12.186) and she has many mutual activities that Marcus and herself both …show more content…

In this section of the book, I was able to learn of the hippies during the 60s’, the Free Speech Movement, and the Yippies. Not only did these pages teach me of history, it gave me further insight on what was happening in our world at that time and how it had affected us today, by promoting people's rights and indirectly ending the Vietnam War. This part also made me think of from a different perspective as Marcus read a part of the Declaration of Independence (11.180), and that sort of just made me more aware of my

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