People are constantly fighting against the constant repressors of censorship. At times, the repression can get so strong that people feel the need to rise up against the authority that has been holding them back. Revolutions or uprisings can happen in a variety of ways and the severity can greatly range. Regarding Little Brother, Doctorow has the main characters get a massive group of young adults together to form a large mob that wreaks chaos upon the city [3]. In the real world, revolutions tend not to create chaos in an entire city. Contrary to the popular belief, students or young adults actually can have an effect on society, something that has been realized since the 1960’s [1].
When students come together, especially in a world where education is constantly relying on the excuse of budget cuts, they can truly make things happen the way they would like [4]. The public constantly underestimates the power of the masses. Today’s students will eventually become tomorrow’s working class, and if they see something they deem unacceptable, they will go to all lengths to see that it will be changed. If a large portion of the working class comes together, that is a significant amount of the public overall [2].  A topic that is often divisive, as well as the cause for revolution, is the freedom of speech [6]. When authorities do not like what a person or group of people are saying, they will go to all lengths to see that that person either stops saying what they are saying, or to go away completely and their means of taking care of people has varied greatly throughout time, and most likely will continue to vary [7].
My original contribution to this topic is to look over Doctorow’s view on youth revolutions as well as discuss why Marcus’s revolution was not successful in Little Brother by comparing it to the young adults and what they did in the Free Speech Movement [5].