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The objective of this essay is to compare the protagonists of two contemporary short stories: “A little brother” by Cory Doctorow and “The Feed” by M.T. Anderson. Both of these stories have their roots in the novel “1984” by George Orwell and have the common motif of total supervision.
Conflict between individual and system
Two short stories mentioned in the introduction have the same type of conflict in the plot: the conflict of individual and the system. The protagonists of two stories have many common features: generally both of them are careless teenagers who live in society without thinking about the inner mechanisms of its functioning. “Ignorant, self-centered idiots” (Anderson, 93).
Both boys face with the system, though they never thought about it as about dangerous and destructive power. Shocking understanding makes both characters paranoiacs: they begin to notice the signs of total supervision everywhere and they both start thinking about the freedom of choice, about the live under the constant observation and about the disability to act independently.
However the results of the conflict are different for the characters. Marcus Yallow, a.k.a. w1n5t0n, after the imprisonment and disappointment in the system is going back to the normal life and starts the political struggle in the effort to change the system. Titus, the protagonist of “The Feed” looses his battle with the system and runs mad.
Thus, it can be concluded that both writers develop the concept of George Orwell. However, the character of M.T. Anderson repeats the sad fate of Orwell’s hero, who was also ruined by the system, and the character of Doctorow continues his struggle, and this final seems to be more optimistic.
“I cut in a photomontage of the hundreds of shots of prisoners in their cells that Barbara had published on the Bay Guardian’s site the day we were released. “We elected these people. We pay their salaries. They’re supposed to be on our side. They’re supposed to defend our freedoms. But these people –” a series of shots of Johnstone and the others who’d been sent to the tribunal “– betrayed our trust. The election is four months away. That’s a lot of time.(Doctorow, epilogue)”
The protagonists of two short stories develop the ideas of George Orwell, but the development of the character and final are different.

 
References
M.T. Anderson FEED Candlewick Press Fiction ISBN-10: 0763622591. ISBN-13: 9780763622596
W1N5T0N An annotated version of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother.