Summary- Following the disruption of their feeds,they have been fixed. Everyone's feeds were placed back online and life went back to the way it was. That is except for Titus' life, at least for a short period of time. Calista, one of Titus' friends who's feed was also off-line,decided to hold a celebration of some sort. This party was to celebrate the re-boost of everyone's feeds. Titus and Violet are currently dating and beginning to learn new things about one another. For example, Titus discovers that Violet's feed is badly damaged and was not fully restored at the hospital. With this new information Violet begins a new experiment.
Violet begins to trick the Feed in her head, and scramble with it. She has cracked the system, which has to do with placing people in personality groups and selling ads and merchandise to them accordingly. She, along with Titus, use this knowledge to their enjoyment and begin changing their personality likes. Titus and Violet are becoming closer, and Violet begins to revile more of herself to him. She tells him that she just recently got her Feed because of her family's paucity of money. She is also home-schooled, and knows intellectual things, and events that have been going on in their world. The topic of democracy and republicanism is argued upon harshly, and Violet voices her concerns regarding the Feed and what it does to people. She says the Feed dumbs people down and Titus then begins to question his intelligence.
Quote- " That night when I got home, I was looking out the window being sorry, and my mother was like, 'What's wrong?' I didn't answer for a while. Finally I said, 'Do you think I'm stupid? I mean, am I dumb?' " (Anderson 114)
Reaction- Titus has just come from a heated conversation with Violet, in which she refers to Feed users as ignorant and self-centered. Titus apparently took her brood generalization personally and goes home with the idea still lingering in his mind. It seems that Violet is getting to Titus, and really making him think about the consequences of excessive use of the Feed. Although Titus is affected by Violet's dicussion for a short while, he is cheered up by his parents with a new car.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Feed (1-60)
Summary: The book Feed bt M.T Anderson takes place in the distant future, and is a place where computers control our minds. Every human being has a microchip in their mind that tells them everything and anything they need to know. This system is called the Feed, and its everywhere. The main character's name is Titus and, much like every other teen in the story, he has no control over the control the Feed has on him. Everyone actually enjoys the Feed and everything it has to offer. In the beginning of the story Titus and his friends take a trip to the moon for Spring Break, and they are bombarded with ads, and suggestions that fill their Feed's with information. They are nothing without their Feed's in their minds.
The plot takes an interesting turn as they encounter Violet, a strange girl who travels alone on the moon. She is not like the other girls of her time, she is not as dependent on the Feed, and prefers mellow activities. As the group goes to a club to intoxicate their Feeds and have as much fun as possible, a hacker comes into play. The hacker touches thirteen people's heads at the club and disrupts their Feed's, among those 13 were Titus,Violet, and his 4 other friends. Now the friends are at the Hospital, and without their Feeds, and they realize what the real world is like without computers in their heads. As days go by Titus and Violet build a small bond and begin to enjoy eachothers company as Feed technicians prepare to reinstall their life-sucking technology back into their minds.]
Quote:
"Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands,like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe." (Anderson 47)
Reaction:
This quote came from Titus and was said after the Feed's were hacked into and he had nothing in his head. It is very disturbingly comical qoute in both ways. Disturbing because Titus, and everyone around him, considers the Feed-technology, to be like an organ to him. He needs the Feed like he needs lungs to breathe. It is comical because we are actually living in the time of which he speaks and he is exaggerrating.
The plot takes an interesting turn as they encounter Violet, a strange girl who travels alone on the moon. She is not like the other girls of her time, she is not as dependent on the Feed, and prefers mellow activities. As the group goes to a club to intoxicate their Feeds and have as much fun as possible, a hacker comes into play. The hacker touches thirteen people's heads at the club and disrupts their Feed's, among those 13 were Titus,Violet, and his 4 other friends. Now the friends are at the Hospital, and without their Feeds, and they realize what the real world is like without computers in their heads. As days go by Titus and Violet build a small bond and begin to enjoy eachothers company as Feed technicians prepare to reinstall their life-sucking technology back into their minds.]
Quote:
"Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands,like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe." (Anderson 47)
Reaction:
This quote came from Titus and was said after the Feed's were hacked into and he had nothing in his head. It is very disturbingly comical qoute in both ways. Disturbing because Titus, and everyone around him, considers the Feed-technology, to be like an organ to him. He needs the Feed like he needs lungs to breathe. It is comical because we are actually living in the time of which he speaks and he is exaggerrating.
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