The novel Little Brother plays A LOT on the ideas found in the novel 1984, of which you read an excerpt. Keep track of any references to that novel which you discover in Little Brother.

The story often alludes to the terroristic attack of September 11, 2001 (DHS made people think that Marcus and his “organization” is not better than those terrorists), also there are some allusions to Orwellian warnings, as critics of the book think. Little Brother parallels Big Brother in 1984. Throughout Little Brother Marcus uses the handle "w1n5t0n" (“Winston”), a reference to the main character in Orwell’s novel.