Freedom In Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

Freedom is the metaphorical thread that holds any country or colony together. Many great countries, looking invincible from the outside, have faltered because security and secrecy have oppress many of the people's privileges. This sense of being trapped within one’s home as encouraged many within these countries to rebel against the government's perception of security and lead to great interior conflict. These events occur in the Speculative fiction novel by writer Cory Doctorow titled Little Brother. The citizens of San Francisco, books premiss, have had their rights taken from them when a terrorist attack of the Bay Bridge causes the government declare a state of emergency. This causes 4 teens to be wrongfully locked up and interrogated …show more content…
After being captured by the DHS, Marcus’s noticed the guard, “saluted the people in the truck and they saluted him back and that’s when I knew I wasn't a prison of some terrorist-I was a prisoner of the United States of America.” (Cory Doctorow,47).The opening of the book somewhat foreshadows the high security world San Francisco will become later in the book, which equip Marcus in how to fight a higher power using technology. The schools over protection and restricting freedom is exactly what the government will do after the bombing of the Bay bridge. Their paranoia eventually leads to the wrongfully detaining and interrogation of a group of friends that will later decide to fight against the government as they did while they were in school. The Government created their own problems by suppressing the citizens rights and freedoms.“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you,”(Doctorow 126) is a way of saying that if you keep doing something negative, someone will do something about it.The U.S government in this novel have created the rebellious force by illegally apprehending Marcus Yallow and his group of friends. This leads Marcus to boot up an old computer program that disallows people not within the network to be unable to observe the chats and posts within the program. Once they have recruited more people to silently rebel against the government's new laws and restrictions, Marcus and his small following begin to disassemble the city of san francisco via the internet. This is a great example of a government’s poor decisions regarding freedom within the country leading to unnecessary interior conflicts by their own