Feed By M. T. Anderson Analysis

M.T Anderson uses this novel to show how current modern societal issues could expand and worsen. By writing this novel, M.T Anderson is giving an example of how the problem that are ignore or considered normal could turn into something that people now would see very big issues with. M.T Anderson has written this novel as a warning to the current society. The novel is saying that if people don’t start taking care and acknowledging the earth current stage of environmental health, that we will all be living in domes very soon, and that's the exaggerated truth. M.T Anderson has a very cruel way of showing readers this, but the scary part is this could one day all happen. In Feed, M.T Anderson uses satire to exaggerate modern societal issues like
Readers see this when Titus is flying around at night, "the black moving goo was all these hordes of cockroaches. There were miles of them”( Anderson 99). In this quote you see hordes of cockroaches on the dome crawling. It has been known that if the world was to have a nuclear disaster that cockroaches would probably be the only living organism alive. This shows the readers that there has been a natural disaster outside of the domes and that’s why they have domes. They even have fake clouds, “There were some weather blimps in front of us. They were all yellow in the sunset that was spreading over the CloudsTM”( Anderson 79). The TM in clouds show us that they are artificial and can be owned(hyper consumerism). It also shows that there is pollution in the air so clouds can not form. Also they can no longer have children through natural means. So the women have to undergo this fertilization and get to design their baby, “So we went into the conceptionarium, and told genetics what we wanted, and your father went in one room, and I went in the other and...”(Anderson 142). Again, M.T Anderson has exaggerated another societal issue that people choose to ignore or