What is going on

At the moment, I’m currently reading a passage written by M.T. Anderson titled Feed. I have read up to page 195 and it has been a pretty decent read.  Up to this point this story has been about a teenage boy named Titus and his friends, who live in a futuristic world where they have this thing called the Feed basically built into all of their brains. The Feed is . The Feed is controlled by different corporations so there’s an endless variety of ads popping up showing products based off of past purchases and emotions. The Feed also allows people to chat with one another without talking, and gives suggestions of what to say. Although this makes it easier to communicate, since people were born with the technology they lack some language skills and vocabulary. In my eye’s this was just a small flaw that came with the advantages of in mind communication.

            Any who, further into the reading Titus and posse decided to go to a party. While at the party Titus and his friends ended up getting hacked. After being hacked, they all went to the hospital to get their Feed’s fixed. While waiting to be cured of the hack they came up with the idea find something to do to keep them occupied which ended being a game to keep them entertained. Once they were able to function again, things went back to normal and the gang felt a sense of rejuvenation. After the repercussions of the hack, Titus’s parents went out and purchased him a flying car. A flying car is referred to as upcars. With his new car all Titus does is take his girlfriend Violet, who he met at the hacker party out. He took her to another party where they were playing spin the bottle in the basement. Violet started yelling about how stupid it was when she began to display seizure like symptoms before she collapsed. The problem with Violet was she had gotten her feed later than everyone due to her family's misfortune and wanting of her to grow up the right way. She got her feed after she was fully formed so now it doesn’t fit right. Violet said “The feed is tied into everything. Your body control, your emotions, your memory.” She can possibly die due to the fact that her Feed is malfunctioning.

            In the passage many things can happen further on. The Feed is somewhat destroying humanity. Violet is an example of the old school. She has a view of the old way of thinking because she didn’t have her feed as long as everyone else. Titus is now on the path to changing himself as well. He is learning how to get to Violet’s house without using GPS. To this such a big step up because with the Feed being in his head he doesn’t have to memorize how to get places due to the fact that he has an exact access to GPS.
            Teenagers in the real life and teenagers in the passage are dissimilar. Other than the fact that they have software in their head, they act somewhat similar. Teenagers these day are all the same, always attending parties and roaming the streets. In the feed people don’t speak English and like to see the insides of their females. This is a pretty weird thing to me, as I wouldn’t want to see the inside of a female. In my opinion seeing the insides of a female is not “sexy” like Quendy Marty said. Fact of the matter is teens today are all obsessed with technology. Everything they do involves technology. Every minute of everyday teenagers are consistently using their phones, texting and socializing. These are the little similarities we have with the people who have the Feed in their head.
            Technology in the hands of these technology professionals help us progresses. Nowadays we have wireless technology, automated robots, and clouds of storage on the internet. There are self-driving cars, machines that can take your order in fast food restaurants, and even watches that answer the phone for you. In the time that we live in, technology is the most important thing. Nothing comes before it and nothing comes after it in the eyes of teenagers. Violet is an example of the old school way of life. The way of living that got us to where we are now and that is going to better us.

James B word count: 932


Work Cited
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Candlewick Press 2002.

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