Love, itself, is a simple word, but no word can compare to its power. Love can lead people to their extremes and some people to their downfalls. In Feed by M.T Anderson, the story shadows two lovesick teenagers and their dreadful ending. The story commences as Titus and his friends go to the moon for spring break, where they meet Violet. Shortly after a day on the moon, Titus and his friends, including Violet, are hacked by the Coalition. After they depart back home from the hospital, Violet has a secret; a secret that it will change Titus and Violet’s life forever. Violet’s feed is malfunctioning; she is dying. All this information and Violet’s overload of her memories, bucket list made Titus part from her. In the end, Titus reunites with Violet as she dies. Titus then deliberates, “Everything Must Go” (Anderson 299). In Pixar’s Wall-E, the story set in a robotized and catastrophic earth, surveys a love story between Wall-E and Eva. Although the movie is without words, none are needed to see the love between Wall-E and Eve. Chasing Eva relentlessly, Wall-E embarks on the AXIOM. After the discovery of the plant, the captain of the AXIOM is mesmerized by the beauty of the earth. Inspired, the Captain faces a couple of battles against technology but maneuvers the ship back to earth. Even though the earth is lifeless and adulterated, they begin to nurture it with plants. In analyzing Feed by M.T Anderson and Pixar’s Wall-E, they both share some differences and similarities.
If one compared an apple to an orange, surely one would think they were not similar. In reality, they are alike in different ways. Feed by M.T Anderson and Disney Pixar’s Wall-E share an immense number of similarities in their plots and story lines. First, the...
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... Undoubtedly, Anderson chose to end Feed on a terminal note. Feed shows the world an insight of what the world might come to in a couple of years. Similarly, Feed by M.T Anderson and Disney Pixar’s Wall-E presage what is to come if technology annihilates the world. These books caution people of our reliance on technology is getting out of control. People are becoming increasingly reliant on phones or computers. Feed and Wall-E warn people of the gloomy dystopian worlds that can transmute into the next generations world. Feed and Wall-E symbolizes our caveats for the possible near future destruction.
Works Cited
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.
Scott, A. O. "In a World Left Silent, One Heart Beeps." New York Times 27 June 2008: n. pag. Print.
WALL-E. Dir. Andrew Stanton. Perf. Ben Burett, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin. Pixar, 2008. DVD.
In Feed, the author satirizes our generation’s dependence on technology. For example, while Titus and his friends are in the hospital without feeds they become bored out of their minds. In one scene Titus stares blankly at the walls of his room. “There were five walls, because the room was irregular. One of them had a picture of a boat on it. The boat was on a pond or maybe a lake. I couldn’t find anything interesting about that picture at all. There was nothing th...
Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 display a lack of relationships and human communication. The people on the spaceship do not physically interact with one another, they only communicate
In M.T Anderson’s, Feed, and the motion picture, Wall-E, multiple parallels show. Feed takes place in a dystopian Earth some 200 years from the present time. Everyone has a machine in the back of the head, called a feed, which allows the user to access the internet or text other friends directly from their head. The omnipotent corporations control what people wear, buy, or learn about. When Titus meets Violet, they engage in a romantic relationship. They struggle to be together as a couple, and eventually Violet’s malfunctioning feed takes over her body, causing her death. Wall-E depicts a trash compactor, named Wall-E, in future, too. Wall-E is stranded on a pollution filled Earth, where all the humans have gone to space many years ago. When Eve lands onto Earth, Wall-E falls immediately in love with her. Wall-E and Eve start connecting when Wall-E ends up showing her a plant, possibly the only one on Earth. Eve shuts down, and both of them end
M.T Anderson’s novel Feed gives readers a representation of a future dystopian world, one in which technology is not simply around us yet embedded inside our heads. Anderson gives a warning for our own society by drawing parallels between our society and the feed. As Anderson describes, "Everything's dead. Everything's dying." (Anderson 180). In this dystopian world, the environment turns into a disaster due to how rapidly technology is advancing, and this concept can relate to our society today. Indeed, society’s life has improved over the decades due to technological advances, however, it brings more damage to the earth.
Although the silence had no tangible effect in the beginning, it permeated the thoughts of the citizens as the length of the silences grew. When people realized the calming effects of the silence, reliance upon it grew, ultimately creating a political movement in which silence became effectively mandatory. The obsession with silence grew, until noise gained value through scarcity, turning the obsession towards itself. Intervals of noise replaced the intervals of silence, growing in length each time as well. Over time, noise became the major melody of time again, and the silence was all but forgotten in the din of life. Yet in the pattern and intervals of silence and noise, a cryptographer finds a message in morse code, “LISTENWELL” (Brockmeier
... to foretell of a dystopian America that has eerily similar qualities to current- day- America even though he wrote this book over sixty years ago. Just as the novel predicts, People are becoming buried in their technology, leaving books and social interactions lower on peoples’ priority list. They want to have the latest technology to make it seem like they live a successful life. People have turned towards the technology obsessively in order to have fun entertainment and feel happy. Medication consumption is higher than ever and humans are addicted to fast- paced actions that provide them with their coveted entertainment. America is changing, moving towards an alarming technological dystopia just as the America in the novel did.
“I am obsessed with silence because of the silence of the world. I do not understand why the world was silent when we needed its outcry. I always come back to that problem. Where were the humanists, the leaders, the liberals, the spokesmen for mankind? The victims needed them. If they had spoken up, the slaughtered would not have succeeded in his task.” - Elie Wiesel
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