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Cory DoctorowLittle Brother
Cory DoctorowFiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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How does Marcus’s comment that he’s “one of the most surveyed people in the world” set the tone for the novel? Is the statement true?
In Little Brother, Doctorow enters a conversation with Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel written by George Orwell that was published in 1949. How are the DHS like the Party from Orwell’s novel? How prophetic is Nineteen Eighty-Four?
How does Marcus’s concern with books—his moral dilemma of reprogramming RFIDs in library books and his wrapping the physics book in paper towels before nuking it— reinforce or dismantle stereotypes about gamers?
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