In Matthew Tobin Anderson young dystopia novel “Feed” takes place in the near future, America, where seventy percent of the population has a device implanted in their brain called the “feed.” The feed gives its users instant access to the media. Not only that but one’s body relies on the feed to function properly or else one “could lose the ability to move…lose the ability to think” (Anderson, 171). This passage relates to the central theme of Corporations and Consumerism, which is the feed is used by cooperation’s to manipulate its customers through personalized ads and poking them into a lifestyle of constant consumption.
The feed is not a chip that connects the user to the media but it also represents the potential and advancement that
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Many families bond by spending time together, arguing, and growing together. But for Titus’s family there’s no such thing as “together” since even when they’re in the same room they’re all lost in their own little worlds, watching feed casts and chatting through feed with their friends. To them the idea of family time seems dull by …show more content…
You are the feed!” (Anderson, 202), there is also a secondary meaning to that as well. The cooperation has been installing the feed into babies from birth so as they grow the brain would work with the feed to operate the body and the body would also depend on the feed to make basic functions. She had “late installation which made it dangerous. The brain was already wired to operate on its own. The feed installation was nonstandard” and that caused Violet to suffer until the end (Anderson, 288). The feed is not just a device to connect one to the cooperation’s only but it also controls a person’s body. Like in Violet case since, her feed was hacked on the moon which caused problem to her body where “couldn’t move my leg” (Anderson, 225). It starts of small for Violet but later on the reader sees that the functional percentage of the feed and body decreases over time from eighty-seven-point-three-percent to