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.