The Importance of Moral Responsibility of Always Doing What Is Right: A 'Little Brother' Essay Camryn McGill 11th Grade

Doing the right thing is not a natural human instinct. We’d rather let other people take the fall for our mistakes instead of telling the truth and doing the right thing. In reality,doing the right thing for your city, is not a matter between freedom or imprisonment. However, for Marcus Yallow, it is. Marcus Yallow, who is a seventeen year old high school student and has tremendous talent on a computer, was taken prisoner by the Department of Homeland Security after a terrorist attack on the Bay bridge; the narrative indicates that what Marcus did to stand up against the DHS was in fact the right thing.

Marcus shows the readers the importance of doing what’s right by helping Darryl, using the Xnet to fight the DHS, and telling Barabara about what happened on Treasure Island.In the novel, Marcus Yallow is doing the right thing by helping Darryl when he was stabbed, and when he went missing. Darryl got stabbed while trying to escape the BART station after the terrorist attack, when they were running the opposite way of thousands of people. Marcus helped him by trying to get help. He still persevered to help Darryl, and he even threw himself in front of a car to get Darryl help. “I was sick of cars driving right past me. The next...