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'Feed' by M.T. Anderson
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Making Connections to 'Feed' by MT Anderson
Lashaiya Coleman
What is 'feed?'
Quote: Chapter 1, Page 22, Line 12
How does Titus feel about his ability?
Everything we've grown up with—the stories on the feed, the games, all of that--it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to. I mean, they do these demographic studies that divide everyone up into a few personality types, and then you get ads based on what you're supposedly like. They try to figure out who you are, and to make you conform to one of their types for easy marketing. It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler." (page 22)
Friendship
Friendship
With regular teens in today's society, they obviously use their own devices to meet people online, or they can just communicate by voice. When they get enough time to spend with someone, they develop relationships.
What happens to their feed next?
Titus and Violet began a relationship in chapter 7 when they were shut down by a police after an old man’s command, then fell unconscious after partying at a club. They woke up in hospital beds and they were in night gowns, discovering that their feed wasn’t functioning properly. It turns out the old man messed up their system by touching one of their buttons and since their friend Loga wasn’t affected, they call her “the hacker.” (Chapter 9.1) The police had to run virus checks and decrypt feed histories. (Chapter 9.2)
Violet malfunctioning?
Violet malfunctioning?
Her feed function is at a mere 4.6%, which meant that it was really, really bad. We would probably call this a coma. As it got worse, she feared of forgetting things and forgetting who she was. She continued to tell Titus stories, and the last story she told was the story about the two of them. “It's about this meg normal guy, who doesn't think about anything until one wacky day, when he meets a dissident with a heart of gold. Together, the two crazy kids grow, have madcap escapades, and learn an important lesson about love. They learn to resist the feed.” (Chapter 58)
The ending results
The ending results.
Violet’s eyes are blank now, and Titus is crying. Titus had told her a story of two crazy kids as well, which refers to the both of them. He describes that they get halfway there, but then one of the crazy kids dies and the other—well, he does seem to learn a lesson, but he hasn't exactly become an activist. After a bit of feed chatter, this lesson taught Titus that everything must go.