Chaos and Disorder in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother

Abstract

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother explores the worst possible scenario of San Francisco and highlights the sense of fear, horror and terror caused due to the excessive abuse and misuse of scientific and technological inventions. Technologies infringe on the basic and fundamental human rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The so-called advanced and sophisticated inventions like Xnet, Xbox, CC camera, gait recognition camera make the situation devastating, dehumanizing, terrifying and horrorifying. The central story is concerned with the teenage students of Chavez High who, dissatisfied with the overall system of school, bunk the school and fight against the tyrannical, authoritarian and totalitarian school, government and Department of Homeland Security. As a perfect dystopian novel, Little Brother presents an imaginary futuristic society of San Francisco of 2022, where people live a degraded, cursed and tarnished life resulted due to the failure of the government and its concerned agencies. Moreover, general concept of the government to suspect each and every citizen as a possible terrorist is also interrogated, critiqued and criticized.