Have you ever been bored in class with a boring teacher, just took out your phone or used a computer during class? Well, MT Anderson's book Feed takes us about 100 years into the future. Feed talks about how society depends on electronics. Clouds are registered trademarks and so on; people have transmitters implanted in their brains. There are two main characters, Titus and Violet, Titus is a teenager with the Feed just like Violet and the others. While Titus and Violet are out partying at a nightclub, they are suddenly hacked. So, over the course of the book, they get rushed to the hospital, realize they have to turn the power off, ...then turn it back on. They are relieved, throughout the book Titus and Violet begin a relationship and almost love each other until Violet realizes she is dying. Looking at the feed of books we realize how dependent we are on technology and how one day we might even control our own lives. We will examine grief, a couple's friendship, we will examine what life could or could be like in the future. To find out that it may not be all we think it is. In this book there are many examples of how society can have different opinions on how technology can change us. An example is when Titus starts to feel stupid because of his girlfriend, he thinks to himself "am I smart or stupid" thinking about this very difficult moment where Titus confronts his parents and asks them if he is stupid or smart. Like most parents, his mother and father had no mental response to change the subject, instead of sitting him down they bought him a car. Surely he had completely forgotten about it. He says: “I could feel their feeds moving towards a common point, some kind of banner they were hoisting. And I discarded it in my head and didn't do it... in the middle of the card... at the bottom. During the conversation they argue and Titus returns home depressed, a couple of days later Titus revisits his house. He tells her what she can find in his feed. He watches and watches and tells her that life is like a movie. The book ends with violet food... In conclusion the book tells us how teenagers would behave with food, how we don't need school, how food teaches us everything, how we can ask questions and find answers. We see that technology can change, relationships with the people we love, can make us think less and less, if everything was in our hands we wouldn't have decisions. This story by MT Anderson really makes us reflect on how simple and advanced technology can make us throw away entire lives. I thought the author did a really good job of expressing his beliefs, and if that ever happens, what we can do and what we shouldn't do.
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