Feed Sparknotes

A Dystopian Story As one may know, the world of technology increases very rapidly. There are no boundaries when it comes to new innovations. Although technology may have many breakthroughs, it greatly shifts the idea of human relationships and intimacy by changing the way of human interactions. As M.T Anderson depicts in the novel Feed, everyone has a feed and they cannot think for themselves. The chip, a piece of technology implanted into the brain, causes the characters to lack intelligence and not have a mind of their own. The feed then sends them advertisements and suggest that they buy certain products because it helps them feel better. The characters in the novel become so over-reliant on the feed that they are blind to what is actually

The characters solely rely on their feed for everything they do. The technological environment that Anderson has created in this book resembles the world today, such as technology expanding and making life easier. Technology affects the intelligence of the characters and this book explains how. Everyone in the Feed has lost the ability to read and write, and language has almost deteriorated completely. Instead of the feed making them smarter, they are actually learning less. The characters do not have to study or read. School™ is trademarked, implying that the society in Feed is privatized. The girls change their hairstyles every few minutes or so because their feed tells them that certain style is popular. Artificial lesions and lenticels becomes the new trend. “Because her whole skin was cut up with these artificial lesions. We are all just looking at her. They were all over her.” (Anderson 191). Humans get so caught up on what’s in style or new in technology that they just end up conforming. “A protagonist, often a teen, somehow preserved from the brainwashed docility of most people in his or her society—a rebel—solves some personal or social problem afflicting everyone, and escapes from the future into what we recognize as a more normal world.” (“Let’s Go Dystopia”). The article describes Violet, in the book she tries proving how corrupt the feed is. She even goes further and conducts a project on the feed which creates a customer profile that no one can market. The feed takes away the characters ability to think on their own. The sales people try everything in their power to manipulate the