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    "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's ""Little Brother"""
    "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's ""Little Brother"""
    "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's ""Little Brother"""
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    "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's ""Little Brother"""

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    "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's ""Little Brother"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateDec 13, 2018
    ISBN9780028665917
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      A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother

      Cory Doctorow

      2008

      Introduction

      Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow published by Tor Books in 2008. It is also available for free on Doctorow's website via a public copyright license, part of his political philosophy about freedom of expression and lack of restrictive protections on creative works.

      The novel centers on a seventeen-year-old boy in San Francisco, Marcus Yallow, who habitually questions authority and hacks school security systems. Terrorists bomb the Bay Bridge, and the US government responds with repressive measures violating civil rights, sweeping up Marcus and his friends in the process. When one friend remains in custody, Marcus retaliates by using his computer skills to subvert efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to monitor citizens and in doing so creates a political movement that puts him in danger.

      Little Brother was a commercial and critical success, becoming a New York Times best seller, though its radical politics led to its being briefly censored at a Florida high school. It tackles themes of privacy, totalitarianism, political resistance, friendship, and romantic love, and it acts in part as a how-to guide for subverting computer security measures by outlining some of the principles and methods of computer hacking.

      Author Biography

      Cory Efram Doctorow was born in Toronto, Canada, on July 17, 1971. His paternal grandparents had fled from Russia during World War II to Azerbaijan, and his father was born in a refugee camp in Afghanistan. Both his father and mother were schoolteachers; his mother specialized in early childhood education, and his father taught math and computer science. Both were adherents of Trotskyism, the advocacy of permanent international class revolution.

      His upbringing included science fiction, leftist politics, and computer technology. His father introduced him to computer programming at the age of nine, and he read George Orwell's seminal dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four when he was twelve. In the introduction to Little Brother, Doctorow recalls:

      When I was 17, the world seemed like it was just going to get more free. The Berlin Wall was about to come down. Computers [were] now connecting me to the entire world through the Internet…. My lifelong fascination with activist causes went into overdrive as I saw how the main difficulty in activism—organizing—was getting easier by leaps and bounds.

      His first professionally published story, Craphound, about a junk dealer who teaches an alien the joys of garage sales and flea markets, appeared in 1998 in Science Fiction Age.

      In 1999, Doctorow cofounded Opencola, a company producing collaborative information-sharing software on the open source model, whereby software designs and blueprints are available for anyone to look at and contribute to, part of a lifelong dedication to digital rights and copyright liberty. In 2003, he published Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a novel about a world in which personalities are downloadable and death is survivable; he rereleased it two months later,

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