Little brother is a fictional novel written by Cory Doctorow. It contains many themes and lessons about the world we live in today.
The protagonist of the novel is Marcus Yallow. Marcus is a senior at Cesar Chavez High in San Francisco. He is secretive, rebellious, a troublemaker and determined. These traits are shown throughout the whole novel as it is told in his point of view.
We know all people are different, fictional or non-fictional, thus making everyone unique. However, the Marcus and I have 1 key similarity; we both care for our friends a lot. This idea seems pretty obvious since most people care about their friends but his type of caring is on another level. This is shown on page 74, “I’ll beat them, I’ll get Darryl. I’m not going …show more content…
Marcus knows all about coding, hacking and strategies he could use technology against the government. On page 130, Marcus tests out a method to mess up the DHS’s search when he passed by someone and triggered his arphid cloner. This is described when he says, “The cloner sucked down the numbers off his credit cards and his car keys, his passport and the hundred-dollar bills in his wallet.”(Doctorow.130). His idea includes advanced knowledge of technology and how the government uses it in order for him to create a way to ruin their way of tracking people.
The hero’s journey is a pattern that all good stories follow that describes that adventure the main character or protagonist goes on. In Little Brother, Marcus’s story may not seem as adventurous as exploring a jungle to find a treasure or he may not seem like a hero. Despite that, his story still follows this principle.
The hero’s journey has many stages or steps and I believe the most impactful part of Marcus’s journey was the “tests, allies and enemies” stage. This stage is when the hero is tested and finds out who his allies are in the “Special world”.
In the novel, this is when Marcus decides to go against the government and turns to his friends for help or to find allies. He asks one of his closest friends, Van and she refused to help since she thought it was wrong. Then, he asks his other friend, Jolu who agrees to help. Afterwards, they hold a party to gain more
The protagonist of the novel is Marcus Yallow. Marcus is a senior at Cesar Chavez High in San Francisco. He is secretive, rebellious, a troublemaker and determined. These traits are shown throughout the whole novel as it is told in his point of view.
We know all people are different, fictional or non-fictional, thus making everyone unique. However, the Marcus and I have 1 key similarity; we both care for our friends a lot. This idea seems pretty obvious since most people care about their friends but his type of caring is on another level. This is shown on page 74, “I’ll beat them, I’ll get Darryl. I’m not going …show more content…
Marcus knows all about coding, hacking and strategies he could use technology against the government. On page 130, Marcus tests out a method to mess up the DHS’s search when he passed by someone and triggered his arphid cloner. This is described when he says, “The cloner sucked down the numbers off his credit cards and his car keys, his passport and the hundred-dollar bills in his wallet.”(Doctorow.130). His idea includes advanced knowledge of technology and how the government uses it in order for him to create a way to ruin their way of tracking people.
The hero’s journey is a pattern that all good stories follow that describes that adventure the main character or protagonist goes on. In Little Brother, Marcus’s story may not seem as adventurous as exploring a jungle to find a treasure or he may not seem like a hero. Despite that, his story still follows this principle.
The hero’s journey has many stages or steps and I believe the most impactful part of Marcus’s journey was the “tests, allies and enemies” stage. This stage is when the hero is tested and finds out who his allies are in the “Special world”.
In the novel, this is when Marcus decides to go against the government and turns to his friends for help or to find allies. He asks one of his closest friends, Van and she refused to help since she thought it was wrong. Then, he asks his other friend, Jolu who agrees to help. Afterwards, they hold a party to gain more