User:IngridIguana/Student Draft of Little Brother

Characters

 * Marcus Yallow, the protagonist, attends the fictional Cesar Chavez High School in Little Brother, and is attempting to take back the world from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). When a terrorist attack happens in San Francisco, the DHS monitors everything that can possibly be monitored, especially the Internet. Prior to the attack, he feels that his freedom is not in jeopardy; later, however, he is willing to fight for all his freedom and for the freedom of his country. He gives out free, unmonitored Internet via ParanoidXbox downloads when the DHS is constantly monitoring it. His computer tags are ‘w1n5t0n’ and ‘M1k3y’. He enjoys building custom computers and leads his group of friends.
 * Angela “Ange” Carvelli, a short geeky girl who is introduced at the beach party, is a friend of Jolu’s he met in fourth grade at computer camp, attends the same school as Van, and develops into Marcus’s love interest.
 * Jose Louis “Jolu” Torrez, is said to be an excellent coder by Marcus and goes to a very strict Catholic school in Outer Richmond. In his background, he has worked for an internet service provider called Pigspleen Net since he was twelve.
 * Vanessa “Van” Pak, a Koren girl who is in Marcus’s inner circle of friends at the beginning of the book. She is Darryl Glover’s love interest and eventually girlfriend. Ends the book not on speaking terms with Marcus because of his actions toward the DHS. Goes to the same school as Ange.
 * Darryl Glover, Marcus Yallow’s best friend, is injured during the terrorist attack and taken along with Marcus, Jolu, and Vanessa to be interrogated but is not released with the others.
 * Mr. Fred Benson- the vice-principle at Marcus’s school
 * Carrie “Severe Haircut Lady” Johnstone, a DHS officer, therefore a direct antagonist, who works at Gitmo-by-the-Bay. She works in the interrogation sector of the prison. She interrogates Marcus twice in the book in the form of torture.
 * Masha, a small Asian girl who is a DHS operative and attempts to help Marcus escape the country/city. Marcus meets her briefly in the beginning of the book when she threatens to expose them for skipping school while ARGing.
 * Zeb, a former detainee of DHS’s “Gitmo-by-the-Bay” Zeb manages to escape and attempt to disappear not before contacting Marcus about Darryl and the current status of the prison.
 * Ms. Galvez, a Social Studies teacher at Marcus’s high school. She is the only teacher that Marcus likes and respects at school.
 * Charles Walker,a peer of Marcus’s, but as an antagonist, he does not actually get along with Marcus. He is a bully with anger-management issues. He and Marcus have an intertwining backstory. He LARP’ed (Live Action Role Play) with Darryl and Marcus in their backstory, but he always played unfairly.
 * Lillian Yallow, Marcus’s mother, was originally from London but moved to America after high school.
 * Drew Yallow, Marcus’s father, does not get along well with Marcus in the book. They often argue about the harsh security after the attack.

Plot Summary
After getting questioned by the police about an irregular travel history, Marcus gets into an argument with his father about the need for extreme security in the city, and how all that it’s doing is catching innocent people. He then sets up a system to trip up all of the security measures around the city using switched FasTrak tags. With the city’s security in shambles everyone is being pulled over by police to be searched and questioned, including Marcus’s father, who returns home three hours late after being pulled over twice. Marcus then goes on the Xnet and is questioned several times about his location in San Francisco, he then discovers that people are getting caught and taken away for affiliation with the Xnet. When Marcus discovers that the Xnet is insecure he makes a plan with Jolu to get Twenty to thirty of their closest friends and make a more secure net of people within Xnet by means of public and private keys. They plan to give out these keys at a party with just these friends. At the party, Marcus meets Ange who after the party asks Marcus out to an illegal open air concert, that gets gassed by the DHS.