HW 13

The Feed, by M.T. Anderson, is about a book where everyone is hooked up to the internet, or what they call "The Feed," 24/7, where everything you can possible do on your computer is done in your head instantly without having to left a finger. Anderson is a very creative writer because this book have many events happening at once, many fake advertisements to convey a meaning and hints on how these people of the future live and to sum it up, appropriately respond to these events through the eyes of a kid name Titus who grew up with the Feed, must have taken a tremendous time of planning. Anderson tried to make this book about the future as real as possible but it seems more like he observe human behavior of today's society.

The Feed uses many events that are happening in today's time. Their Feed is nothing more then a computer in their head, they play games and order from online websites just like we do. They also have a computer program assistant just like most phone companies do. Everyone in the Feed is dumb and are very lazy, just like we do, for example the media says our SAT average is much lower then the last few years and also America is the country with the most overweight people. This book reflects our society, there's is a lot to point out but this book have many events of history as well. The riots of people resisting the Feed is an example of many great resistant of the past such as the Renaissance. I feel that this book also conveys another message, because Violet dies in the end (or becomes a potato) tells me that people will not fit in right if they are late in this "'fad" or never got the feed and will be abandoned by society as the clinically insane which is suggested by Titus when he first meet Violet and her dad.

I feel this book is not just talking to young readers already in tuned to the advertising world, nor is it only for the people of the electronic industry, I feel like this is a book for everyone, even the people out of America. This book does not solely talk about America, its a message to everyone, Russia, Australia, Mexico, etc. Although the message isn't really against America, even though in the book America doomed every living thing outside the dome, I feel its more like a cry for help since in the book it seems like we couldn't help ourselves even if we wanted to. Another message from this book is that the corporate industry took over everything such as school and peoples private life, something like Totalitarianism, something Hitler and Stalin came up with...That might be another message. Anyways, this book has many hints and references and parallel connection with our world, its numberless.