Technology In M. T Anderson's Feed

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Mary Douglas, a British anthropologist, University of Oxford graduate, best known for her ideas on purity and danger, once said, “Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.” The idea of technology alienating society is portrayed through Violet Durn, the beautiful, smart, old fashioned, main character in Feed as she falls in love with Titus a smart and normal boy with a computer chip in his head. M.T. Anderson exaggerates the dependency on technology throughout his satirical novel, Feed. The technology in Feed represents modern day technology with an -exaggerated twist. As the novel progresses. Titus and Violet are falling in love, while Violet is “getting sicker and sicker. M.T. Anderson sets up Violet as an outsider and develops her to become more of an outsider.
Although Titus accepted Violet for the outsider that she is, Titus’s friends …show more content…

Anderson sets Violet up in this way to show just how exclusive technology is. Violet is the only character mentioned that is not accepted in Titus’s friend group. It also just so happens that Violet is the only one of Titus’s friends that got their feed at a later age. Titus’s friends all received their feeds when they were very young, but Violet received her feed at 7 years old. M.T. Anderson sets Violet up in this way because it shows us the problems with our society. Today children are being mocked, or left out, for not having “up to date” technology such as having the newest iPhone. Just like today’s society, Violet is being left out. Titus ignores Violet towards the end of the novel because her feed is malfunctioning, causing her to die. Since her feed is not working as well as the others, she acts as the children that don’t have the newest technology. Violet is left out because of her feed, while children today are left out because their technology is not “up to

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