Maggot Moon

            Maggot Moon, a novel by Sally Gardener, in which Standish Treadwell is the protagonist, and from what I can tell so far, the motherland is the antagonist. I have read 120 pages out of the total 279 of this exceptionally great novel. 

            Standish Treadwell is a fifteen year old boy with severe dyslexia, because of which he cannot read nor write and yet he is the only one with a perspective unique enough to possibly bring down the forces of the motherland. He would often dream about living on a fabricated planet called Juniper with his best friend Hector, who was taken who the Motherland. Standish's ultimate goal throughout this novel is to find Hector and to bring down the Motherland.

            The Motherland is a sort of government in this novel. I am led to believe the Motherland is the antagonist because of sentences in the novel that say things along the lines of; the people of Zone Seven need to stick together and not turn on each other because that's what the Motherland expects, that's what the Motherland wants, in the novel Standish also makes it very clear that his main priority is to bring down the Motherland as well as find Hector.