Little Brother: Post-Reading

"Terrorists don't hate bridges and planes. Terrorists love terror"

     This quote to me means that its not that they hate the things they blow up it's the fact that the thing they blew up probably belonged to someone they hated. It's not very literal in a sense that it they are doing it because of the message it sends and how it makes them look.

     In the book Little Brother the main characters are accused of being Terrorists when they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. If anyone in the book are Terrorists it would have to be the Government because they are fighting their own people who only want privacy and freedom. They are just as bad as the Terrorist they are fighting.

     Through out the book more people keep getting in trouble just because they believe they have more rights than they are given and in the middle of it all is the main character Marcus who wants to start a revolution but doesn't really get any support from his close friends which is probably because their best friend was kidnapped by the Government and hadn't been heard from since the bombing in the beginning of the book. I understand how his friends must of felt ,but they just turned their back on him because they were scared of what would happen..i also under stand what Marcus felt when his friends which had to have made him question what he was doing; was this an act of Justice or Terrorism?

Little Brother Pre-Reading

     The value of privacy to me means a lot. I think of privacy as a sacred concept. If I don't mess in your business you don't mess in mine.
   
      In the book Little Brother Privacy is very hard to come by because of all the technology being used to watch everyone they often have to be very discrete about things. The main character in the book Marcus gets interrogated by the Goverment because they believe him to be a terrorist radical who blew up an important bridge. They attempt to go through his phone and other belongings but they need the passwords to them, which he refuses to give because it was an invasion of his privacy. They then told him if they gave the passwords he would be released from their custody, they only thing was that he would be a marked man (they would watch him carefully to see if he screwed up again and be there to arrest him if they needed to).when he finally returned home he found that they had taken apart his computer and implanted a bug inside of it so that they would know about anything he typed into his computer which i find is illegal i mean he has his own rights by the constitution, he should be able to do what he wants without having to be followed or watched.

Human Nature Essay

     I like to believe people can be good but people are definitely evil. They may appear moral ,but many serious situations push us and bring out the bad inside of everyone.

     People are generally selfish. In the text the Lord of the Flies the characters are stranded on a deserted island and they have to survive. Most of them are just trying to live, but a big concern for them is the dispute between Ralph's group and Jack's group over who gets power over them all. In the poem The Cold Within none of the six characters would give their stick to the fire whether there reason be because of social indifference, race and even religion. If they would have given up heir sticks they might have survived.

     People are relentless. Jack would stop at nothing to gain power over everyone and everything in the LOTF by using his threats and lies about a beast that apparently roamed the island and in the gained control over the other boys (all except Ralph). In The Cold Within the rich man would not give up his stick because of the social status he and the poor man shared.

     People are narcissistic. Jack thought every thing he did was right and that everybody should follow his commands. Roger was also kind of narcissistic because he wanted everyone to be evil like him and do terrible things.

     People are controlling. Roger and jack used each other for their own personal gain in LOTF. Jack used Roger to convince people to join him and Roger used jack to create total chaos for everyone.

     Everyone has an bit of evil inside of them whether it as big as Roger's or Piggy's(whom was killed by Roger). People are selfish, relentless, inconsiderate and controlling even though a lot hate to admit it. you may meet some one who seems like a good person, but they really are just better at hiding their dark side than everyone else.