Feed Book Report

Feed is a futuristic novel by M.T. Anderson. The feed is an internal computer that eliminated the need for school. It’s personally specialized and knows everything a person wants, feels, and hopes for. It also allows people to message friends, hear news feedcasts, and buy things based on many corporations’ advertisements. Titus and his friends take a trip to the moon. Titus meets a beautiful girl named Violet and invites her to a concert. During the concert, a strange man who kept repeating, “We enter a time of calamity.” hacked everyone’s feeds. They all woke up in a hospital with damaged feeds. They were all fixed besides Violet’s who's still wouldn’t work. This was because her father decided to not have her feed installed until she was seven, and they’re supposed to be installed as infants. He was old fashioned and believed having an internal feed was a bad idea. Violet and Titus continue hanging out and begin to date. One day, Violet decides to resist the feed. She wants to create a personality so ridiculous and unheard of that the feed couldn’t possibly understand her, and she’d become invisible. As Violet tries to accomplish this, her feed becomes more damaged. She loses control of certain body parts for long periods of time and memories are erased. Titus and Violet broke up after he said he didn’t want to be with someone who was like a zombie and was going to die. He later goes back to Violet who’s basically in a coma and apologizes saying that their memories would live on.
Feed portrays how easily people can get lost in technology and be persuaded by the media. Trends change on a daily basis and are very extreme. Everyone is starting to get red, oozing lesions on their skin. This becomes the cool thing, and people spending money to have lesions cut all over. Also, all of the advertisements and news on the feed tries to convince people to buy their products to fit in. People are antisocial and don’t talk out loud nearly as much as send messages