Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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?

1 comment:

  1. You make a good point that it is all about the message the terrorists want to send, not about what they blow up in the process. However, your argument here is really confusing. I am not sure how being in the wrong place at the wrong time matters, or of the point you are making in the final paragraph. Grade: 70%

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