Summary Of Feed By M. T. Anderson

In the novel Feed written by M.T. Anderson, the futuristic world is continuously evolving and the characters are overcoming challenges in the technological society. This book focuses on the deteriorating world due to technological advances. The most important technological advancement is the “feed” that the corporations in the future will create. The “feed” contributes to how people participate in everyday activities. Only people who can afford one are able to have a “feed” implant. It is a parallel to today’s modern use of technology and cellular devices. Titus, the protagonist, is a teenager that comes from a wealthy family and he grows up extremely privileged. He and his friends go to the moon for spring break. Titus encounters a girl named

When Titus visits Violet at her house for the first time, he recognizes the completely different environment in which they both grew up in. Violet’s neighborhood, Creville Heights, is inside “one big area, instead of each yard having its own bubble with its own sun and seasons” (Anderson 134). Titus’s home has its own bubble and is able to regulate the different types of weather. They both come from different financial backgrounds which affects the way they live their lives. Titus’s parents spoil him and provided him with access to the “feed” from a very young age. When Violet was young, she did not have the luxury of receiving a “feed” because her father could not afford one. As a result, Violet communicates and thinks differently than the typical teenager in this futuristic world. Gooding describes the impact that technology has on the new futuristic language as having “[interruptions], halting syntax, impoverished diction, and vulgarity” (Gooding 118). Anderson incorporates these informal ways of speaking in everyone’s diction except Violet’s father and Violet because they have been able to function many years without relying on technology. Violet’s father remembers the difference in human interaction when technology was not as popular. After Titus’ and his friends’ “feeds” malfunction from the hacker encounter, Titus’s parents reward him for

After the hacker infects Titus and his friend’s “feeds,” they all end up in the hospital and have to function without their “feed.” Anderson uses Titus’s character to describe the previous technology when he says, “they carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe” (Anderson 47). The “feed” has become a necessity for survival in the future living. The “feeds” also provide individuals with the opportunity to “be super smart without ever working” (Anderson 47). Externally from the “feed,” it is very hard to maintain knowledge of many things, to communicate with others. The “feed” provides people with the ability to find any kind of information in a second. As a result, the educational systems are suffering due to the students are lacking the ability to memorize and learn information on their own. Therefore, the teenagers are unable to function properly without a “feed.” In Carter Hanson's article about M.T. Anderson’s novel Feed, he describes the “feed” as being “fully part of the brain in order to suggest that what might appear to be a symbiotic relationship of biology and technology is actually parasitic” (Hanson 266). The “feed” poses a threat to the younger generations because it is making it difficult for