Problem Hypertext 2

So my hypertext is going to be about the kids who trust authority. This relates to Charles in Little Brother because I do not feel that Doctorow is giving a fair representation of kids who trust authority. He describes people who trust authority as prudes and people who are doing it for all of the wrong reasons. If Doctorow is trying to convince kids like me to distrust and ridicule authority, he is failing miserably. I felt like he did not write a protagonist that I can relate to and I had no interest in participating in what he and his friends do on a normal basis. I do not worship the government or think that all of our laws are smart and/or the right ones, but I have never had a reason to distrust the government and neither had Marcus and his friends at the beginning of this novel. Before the terrorist attacks, all of these kids were privileged, private school kids who never had shortcomings that were significant. But what makes me angry is that a bad guy was a kid who liked the teachers and followed the rules.