Summary- As the story comes to a slow ending Violet and Titus runaway together. Titus,however, no longer has the same type of feelings for Violet. He feels her presence as more of a burden, like an irresponsible little sister, rather than relationship material. As they check into the hotel I notice that Violet is almost completely not herself. She wants to have intercourse with Titus and he does not, he know that she is not herself and that the Feed has taken control of her emotions and driven her to the point of insanity. Finally Titus tells her what he's been feeling for a while now, he no longer wishes to be with her especially while she is in her destructive mood. Violet is torn to pieces and the only way she can control herself is by cursing at Titus then finally giving in to his silence.
For the next weeks as Violet's condition worsens Titus refuses to grow back with her. He has gotten back together with his ex-girlfriend, and seems to be quite happy. Violet calls him constantly, as any ex-girlfriend would, and leaves him long messages,but they are not normal messages. Violets Feed is eating away at her memories and she is afraid that she can no longer recall specific memories of her past, so begins to leave Titus messages on his Feed, and every message is a new memory. She tells Titus of her first memory of riding her bike, and of the first thing she remembers smelling and tasting. Titus listens to a few memories and then, as if to completely rid himself of Violet, erases them all from his Feed. Violet tells Titus all of her intimate secrets, how she knows that she will never have children, or love anyone, or grow old,and Titus completely disregards what she says. There was no way to understand what Titus was feeling if he was feeling anythong at all.
On the day of her daughters death, Violet's father sends out for Titus through some sort of messaging/communication. Titus comes over and as he absorbs the state in which Violet was in during the last moments of her life, his emotions begin to spill. Violets father hates Titus and blames him or all that has gone wrong with Violet and blames him for her death. Titus is fnally left alone with Violet and he looks into her dead eyes and begins to cry. The silence he put himself through for the months they were not together came out and he just sobbed and sobbed. He lost her to what he enjoys so much, the Feed, and he will live with that for the rest of his life.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Feed (180-240)
Summary:
Violet is completely malfunctioning. While at a party at Link's house, Violet has a meltdown and starts babbling about the decline of civilization. She starts screaming at everyone, and calls Quendy a monster for getting her body full of lesions, surgically, to try and blend in witht he new trend. After her hige rampage, Violet's body begins to spazz out, and she eventually passes out. When looked over at the hospital, doctors and technicians agree that she is declining and the Feed is making her body suffer greatly.
The pressure of Violet's condition seems to be weighting Titus down because he is gfoing out of his way to aboid her. Biolet told Titus of her dreams through messages, and he never responded. She the sent him a list of everything she wanted to do, but knew she would never be able to, and he also left her without a response. It seems to me that Titues is cooping with Violet's condition by avoiding it and he decides to get "mal" to deal witht he stress.
Quote:
"'Does anyone else want to go in mal?'" (Anderson 237).
Reaction:
Following Violet's breakdown, Titus has been completely not himself. I believe that, although he doesn't show it, he is suffering freatly. The only way that he can deal with Violets situation is by avoiding it, avoiding her, avoiding life. So that is why he decides to go in mal, or malfunction the Feed to get a rush of a feeling, much like a frug to your body a mal is to the brain.
Violet is completely malfunctioning. While at a party at Link's house, Violet has a meltdown and starts babbling about the decline of civilization. She starts screaming at everyone, and calls Quendy a monster for getting her body full of lesions, surgically, to try and blend in witht he new trend. After her hige rampage, Violet's body begins to spazz out, and she eventually passes out. When looked over at the hospital, doctors and technicians agree that she is declining and the Feed is making her body suffer greatly.
The pressure of Violet's condition seems to be weighting Titus down because he is gfoing out of his way to aboid her. Biolet told Titus of her dreams through messages, and he never responded. She the sent him a list of everything she wanted to do, but knew she would never be able to, and he also left her without a response. It seems to me that Titues is cooping with Violet's condition by avoiding it and he decides to get "mal" to deal witht he stress.
Quote:
"'Does anyone else want to go in mal?'" (Anderson 237).
Reaction:
Following Violet's breakdown, Titus has been completely not himself. I believe that, although he doesn't show it, he is suffering freatly. The only way that he can deal with Violets situation is by avoiding it, avoiding her, avoiding life. So that is why he decides to go in mal, or malfunction the Feed to get a rush of a feeling, much like a frug to your body a mal is to the brain.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Feed (120-180)
Summary:
The plot builds with tension as Violet begins to malfunction. Her Feed has been going haywire and she is beginning to disregard the "Feed-way" of living. One of the symptoms of her new living style is her speaking her mind, and voicing her emotions regarding politics and economics, topic that are never brought to the dinner table. Violets was uninformed of these rules and had some awkward moments with Titus' father about some ludicrous topics. For instance, Titus' fathers company is going to tear down hundreds of acres of trees in order to build oxygen-producing factories. When Violet points out the irony in hid fathers actions he is deeply offended and asks her, indirectly, to leave their home. However, Violet literally could not get out o her seat. Her Feed was failing and causing her body to do so as well.
Titus keeps his promise to Violet, and brings her to the country-side. There they spoke of ways to control themselves against the Feed, and how to fight its urges. Later on that week Violet tells Titus that the technician assigned to fixing her Feed sees little hope in fixing her Feeds issues. He predicts that the Feed will soon permanently interfere and control her motor skills, and her brain will eventually give in to the Feeds control. Titus continues to have nightmares, but will not admit it or tell anyone of them. It also appears that someone has been hacking into Violets Feed, and interjecting in her dreams.
Quote:
"Later that night, I had a nightmares. Someone was poking my head with a broom handle. They tried to put it like in my ear. They said 'whispering makes a narrow place narrower'" (Anderson 151)
Reaction:
I believe this quote has major symbolism that has to do with the Theme of the book. Every dream that Titus has, has something to do with the plot of the story and foreshadows later events that will occur. This quote gets under my skin because all I think about is Titus and how naive he is and how nothing will happen to change him forever. The Feed is the broom and it is shoving information into his mind and weakening him. The voice that tells Titus that
"whispering makes narrow places narrower" is the government. They are warning Titus that sneaking around and going against the tide will only make things worse.
The plot builds with tension as Violet begins to malfunction. Her Feed has been going haywire and she is beginning to disregard the "Feed-way" of living. One of the symptoms of her new living style is her speaking her mind, and voicing her emotions regarding politics and economics, topic that are never brought to the dinner table. Violets was uninformed of these rules and had some awkward moments with Titus' father about some ludicrous topics. For instance, Titus' fathers company is going to tear down hundreds of acres of trees in order to build oxygen-producing factories. When Violet points out the irony in hid fathers actions he is deeply offended and asks her, indirectly, to leave their home. However, Violet literally could not get out o her seat. Her Feed was failing and causing her body to do so as well.
Titus keeps his promise to Violet, and brings her to the country-side. There they spoke of ways to control themselves against the Feed, and how to fight its urges. Later on that week Violet tells Titus that the technician assigned to fixing her Feed sees little hope in fixing her Feeds issues. He predicts that the Feed will soon permanently interfere and control her motor skills, and her brain will eventually give in to the Feeds control. Titus continues to have nightmares, but will not admit it or tell anyone of them. It also appears that someone has been hacking into Violets Feed, and interjecting in her dreams.
Quote:
"Later that night, I had a nightmares. Someone was poking my head with a broom handle. They tried to put it like in my ear. They said 'whispering makes a narrow place narrower'" (Anderson 151)
Reaction:
I believe this quote has major symbolism that has to do with the Theme of the book. Every dream that Titus has, has something to do with the plot of the story and foreshadows later events that will occur. This quote gets under my skin because all I think about is Titus and how naive he is and how nothing will happen to change him forever. The Feed is the broom and it is shoving information into his mind and weakening him. The voice that tells Titus that
"whispering makes narrow places narrower" is the government. They are warning Titus that sneaking around and going against the tide will only make things worse.
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