“But the braggest thing about the feed, the thing that made it really big, is that it knows everything you want and hope for, sometimes before you even know what those things are” (48). The need for devices shows a similar reliance on technology for present-day society to the characters in Feed. Many people in today’s society cannot survive long without their cellphone, laptop, or some other form of technology. The characters within the novel dwell on technology and cannot live without it because of the feed implanted in their brains. Anderson is a science fiction book that is prevalent and apparent in present times. Often times, science fiction books seem unrealistic and set in the distant future. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world and a smart, savage satire about the nature of consumerism and what it means to be a teenager in America.” A girl who decides to fight the feed.įollowing in the footsteps of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut, M. After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone s been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what s happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear.

Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. So says Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his feed, a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

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