Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Little Brother Fan Fiction

I was having difficulties accessing my ftp account, so I plan to work it out and upload my fan fiction this afternoon.

“…The second time around it’s not so bad. You dread the moment it will come every second of the day until it comes, but when it does, you’re ready. You know what’s to come; everything is not so new and frightening anymore. The new smells that fill your nostrils are actually old smells, revisited hundreds of times in memories that seem to have taken place lifetimes ago. The coarse sack over your head feels like a fitted glove made especially for you; the binds on your wrists are like old friends. There is no panic; a wanted man knows his fate and accepts it when it arrives. A deep sense of serenity overwhelms you when you understand the fact that there are no more games, no more running, hiding, wondering. Your fate is settled and beyond your control; all that’s left to do is acknowledge it.

Socrates once said, “The really important thing is not to live, but to live well.” I agree. Whatever you’re passionate about, do it, no matter what. Life is not worth living unless you’re doing what you love, for someone you love, with someone you love. I love this country and what it stands for enough to go to jail for it, and I would do it again. After months of turmoil I realized the true meaning of Socrates’ words. I could have run, hidden, stayed safe; instead I chose to live a life I could believe in. I chose to fight for freedom.

Some said that turning myself in was the stupidest, riskiest thing I could have done. They say that M1k3y could have been kept in captivity forever, shipped to a far off land where he would have never been heard from again, killed. They say that if M1k3y had disappeared, they would have been devastated; their hero would have been gone. Hearing this filled me with an unimaginable sense of sadness for these people. None of this had ever been about M1k3y. None of this had been about what was best for M1k3y. It had been for you – all of you – and for this country and the principles it stands for. Protecting M1k3y had never been a priority. Some claim the rebellion might have died if M1k3y had disappeared; if that was true, it was already a failure.
I believe – no, I know – that the rebellion would have continued, even if I had failed it. I had done everything in my power to fight against the people who were making my country into someplace I hated, and that knowledge put me at peace. Ghandi once said, “Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” You never know whose life you will touch or how you will impact those around you. All you can do is try to make a difference with your life each day. Most days you will feel insignificant, useless, like nothing you do will ever matter. But one day you will do something that will change your life forever and maybe someone else’s life as well. And that’s when everything you’ve been struggling against and fighting for is worth it. I fought for freedom, what will you fight for today?”

- Exerpt from “Memoirs of an American Hero: Marcus Yallow and the Xnet Revolution”




I got the idea for my fan fiction from the scene when Marcus is being taken to prison for the second time. This was an important scene because he finally realized the importance of what he was fighting for and the consequences of his actions. I decided to take the angle of Marcus as an adult looking back on this event in the form of a memoir. In the America of the future Marcus would become one of the great American heroes who fought for our country and our liberties. In his memoir Marcus identifies the importance of standing up for one’s beliefs and the real meaning of the Xnet rebellion.

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