Feed (60-120)

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.