Feed By M. T. Anderson Summary

Our era is the time of the media. Technology has been taking over, and sure technology can be a good thing, but it can also be very dangerous at the same time. One example is how the media has influenced our society. Because of it, girls as young as three years old are insecure about their bodies. The author, M.T Anderson, has noticed how out society is sick, so he wrote a novel called Feed. In Anderson's novel, he suggests that the society is sick by his use of irony and the trend of lesions.

To begin, Anderson suggest that the society in his book Feed is sick from his use of irony. In the chapter “Seashore,” Violet and Titus are at the seashore together. Usually, a seashore is a pleasant place to be, some of the people are surfing, others are swimming or on the beach tanning, but that is not how the seashore is described in the novel: “I looked at her. She looked good, through the mask, her big sunglasses brown and purple in the light”(180-181). Violet and Titus are both wearing bulky, protective orange suits with masks on them. Instead of being able to just wear a bathing suit like a typical person does at the seashore, they both have to wear protective

A lesion is an open wound that is red and can easily become infected. People usually cover their lesions with an adhesive bandage to help it heal. But in this society, lesions are good to have, people want lesions. Especially Quendy. In fact, she gets jealous of Calista’s lesions because they are getting Links attention, so she gets artificial lesions on her body to make him want her: “-because her whole skin was cut up with artificial lesions. We were all just looking at her. They were all over her”(191). Because of Calistas lesions, Quendy makes her own to get the attention of Link. This proves that the society is sick because of the fact an open, oozing wound is what people