Summary Of Feed By M. T. Anderson

How did this happen? How will this affect her in the future? These are questions being asked by readers in M.T. Anderson’s book Feed. The book is about a teenage boy, Titus, who lives in a society where a computer feed is implanted directly into people’s brains. His girlfriend, Violet, has a seizure which causes her to lose a year’s worth of memories. Later, when Titus visits her, something doesn’t seem right. She seems nervous about what the feed is doing to her mind. She also later tells him about how she wants to show she’s alive, or how she wants to live life to the fullest. It becomes clear that Violet has suspicions about the feed and perhaps, dislikes it. To start with, the feed malfunction causes Violet to have a seizure that makes her lose all her memories prior to the year she got the feed. The text clearly states, “I lost a year. During the seizure. I can’t remember anything from the year before I got the feed...The information is just gone.” This adds to her distrust she has for the feed. If the feed erased her memories of that year, specifically, I can infer that it could be possible that Violet knows some dangerous information she’s not supposed to know about. This shows how questionable the feed is. Second of all, she seems to be nervous about how the feed is affecting her mind. She was “pressing her palms into her thighs as
She says, “There’s so much I need to do...You can’t even know...I want to do the things that show you’re alive.” This proves that she wants to experience life. The only problem is, she feels like the feed limits her. She says, “Everything I think of when I think of really living, living to the full—all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms...What am I , without the feed?” She feels like her life revolves around the feed and all her ideas of life is just from the feed. I think that she dislikes that feed for this