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.