User:NuclearParadox/ Student Draft of Little Brother

Plot Summary
At the beginning of the novel, Marcus is in school when he is sent to to the office where Mr.Benson attempts to blame all the schools recent computer issues on him. Marcus receives an alert that his favorite game “Harajuku Fun Madness” has a new -- and decides to skip school along with Darryl, Van, and Jolu. When the reach the area though they are stopped from continuing the game by a girl who threatens to report them unless they let her find the next clue. It is then that they experience massive earthquakes and while attempting to flee through crowds of terrified civilians Darryl is stabbed. They flag down a passing military vehicle but rather than offering assistance they are shoved into the vehicle and taken away to an island prison where they are separated and interrogated. After days Marcus is released, not before being threatened that he cannot tell anyone about his imprisonment. He finds Van and discovers that Darryl was never released and that he is still on the island.

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.

At beginning of chapter thirteen Ange refers to Marcus as M1k3y. Marcus in turn freaks out because he thinks that he has been exposed. “If Ange had figured it out, the DHS had too.”(Doctorow 71) Ange calms him down by explaining how she got it from Jolu. Next Marcus starts his next Xnet project where he colects all the reports on the DON’T TRUST party in Dolores Park. The news continues to rag on the Xnet and Marcus get into a big argument and is suspended for two weeks. Soon news groups want to interview M1k3y about “his group” so he holds and press conference. In short is was an disaster. Marcus even say so, “I’d blown it, somehow.” (Doctorow 85) Marcus and Ange Later break up over an disagreement concerning “Jamming”. Coming out of his high school the next day

In the final chapters of the book, Marcus and Ange set up the VampMob by spray-painting signs all over town. The VampMob occurs in a high-traffic area, and when a thousand vampires arrive for the game, the DHS is forced to disperse the crowd. During the confusion, he finds Masha and the pair escape, leaving Ange behind. Once undercover, Masha reveals a picture taken moments before the bridge blew up of Jolu, Van, Marcus, and Darryl; all preparing for Harajuku Fun Madness. Marcus steals the phone with the evidence and locks Masha in a truck. He meets with Zeb, but they are found and taken to the “Gitmo-by-the-Bay”. In the final chapter, Marcus is placed on a waterboard and is in the middle of torture and interrogation when the highway patrol and California state troopers take the interrogators under arrest. The troopers unlock Ange and Darryl’s cells in the prison. Darryl is alive but traumatized, and Ange is fine overall. They are given a trial and bail. In the epilogue, Marcus ends up convicted of stealing Masha’s phone, but only ends up with three months. He is sati