The DHS transports them to a secret location to interrogate them – stripping their rights to privacy and treating them inhumanely. Then, when Marcus and his friends skip school, they are taken hostage by the Department of Homeland Security. The system spies on the students through their SchoolBooks and monitors their locations with gait-recognition cameras. Doctorow introduces this theme gradually throughout the book, starting with Marcus’s school’s surveillance system. The book centers itself around the rights of liberty, free speech, and other unalienable rights. The main theme of the novel is human rights. Doctorow managed to make the whole attack seem fairly realistic and acceptable towards readers. Little Brother tackles a sensitive topic: terrorist attacks. The main protagonist in the book, Marcus Yallow, is made easy to relate to and like. Doctorow writes with a sharp sense of humor, but delivers a strong and powerful message. Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother is a revolutionary story.
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