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Harajuku Fun Madness Chapter 1 Analysis

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Independent Novel Study 1 Date: May 13 Chapters: 1-4 Harajuku Fun Madness In this chapter we find out that Marcus and Darryl are very smart and very good at technology. Marcus and Darryl sneak off to play in a videogame tournament, Harajuku Fun Madness and while they are going to the tournament terrorists attack. They were underground and someone stabbed Darryl and they go up to get help but the officers take them as prisoners. They are placed in jail under questioning because they were near the crime scene and because Marcus has a lot of encrypted tech on him that a terrorist could potentially use. At the end of this chapter he is released and someone grabs him from the alley. “Anything they ask, answer them. If it’ll get you …show more content…

They take him to his house and talk to his parents because he has a strange traffic pattern. Marcus talks about arphid cloning and Vanessa gets mad. Marcus’s dad gets pulled over twice making him get home three hours late. “I got up and got moving. I felt the eyes watching me from all directions.” I thought this quote was important because it shows how bad this attack was. It put everyone on edge and this is shown by the constitution making you swipe with debit to track your location, soldiers in the streets and cameras in the classrooms. Everyone is being held under surveillance because they don 't know who is a terrorist and who is a normal citizen. They pull people over if they are just taking weird traffic patterns. I can relate to Marcus because sometimes I feel like i 'm under surveillance. In elementary school a speaker came in and said he could track any of us. It was very worrying and made me afraid. I felt like the technology was working against me rather than for me. Also there are many security cameras everywhere and it makes you feel like this world is a very dangerous place. In Marcus’s case he was very good with technology and was able to make the technology work for him without being tracked. Independent Novel Study 3 Date: May 23 Chapters: 9-12 The Police In this section Marcus’s dad talks about him being pulled over. Marcus is on the Xnet and there are people asking him personal questions and he logs off. The DHS got

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