How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
She'd told me what my path was to freedom to the world, to my parents and that had given me hope. Now she'd threatened to send me away, to take me off that path, and my hope had crashed and all I could think of was how to get back on it. (4.25)
Marcus thinks that getting out of this prison will make him free, but this isn't really possible given the state of the country since the Bay Bridge bombings.
Quote #2
"I want us to fight back," I said. "I want to stay free so that I can do that. If we go out there and blab, they're just say that we're kids, making it up. We don't even know where we were held! No one will believe us." (5.48)
Marcus's will to try and change the system leads to Xnet, jamming, and a whole movement. It just takes one to start something big.
Quote #3
It was dark and quiet in the house, but it wasn't a comforting dark. There were eyes out there, eyes and ears, and they were watching me. Surveilling me. The surveillance I faced at school had followed me home, but this time, it wasn't just the Board of Education looking over my shoulder: the Department of Homeland Security had joined them. (5.112)
What's the relationship between freedom and surveillance?