My original contribution for this hypertext was to analyze Cory Doctorow's writings in his novel, Little Brother. Throughout this book, Doctorow emphasizes key points relating to authority and how it reacts to threatening events such as the attack on September 11 or more specifically, the attack on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco (as mentioned in his story).
The main topic my website focuses on is the issue of immigration and how laws enforcing it became more strict immediately following 9/11. In Doctorow's novel, Marcus and his friends are deemed the primary enemies by the DHS, who kidnap them and send them off to a prison off the coast of San Francisco. I concluded that Doctorow's main message to the reader was to connect the labeling of innocent teenagers to the labeling of innocent immigrants. In reading the book, it is blatantly obvious that Marcus is not guilty and has nothing to hide. Perhaps Doctorow's implication is that immigrants, like Marcus, also have nothing to hide. Doctorow exaggerates the ridiculous actions the DHS takes in capturing suspicious perpetrators, which I perceive as a direct reflection of the ways in which our government has wrongfully accused many of its legal citizens.
My only criticism to Doctorow's writing is that he should have put more effort in emphasizing the role foreigners play. Rather than relating immigrants to teenagers, perhaps he could have related immigrants to people in different cities or people who look "different."
