Feed Teaching Component
pg.204-223
Summary:
-begins in waiting room
-Violet's dad gives Titus address to check her feed function
-goes in to see violet, still mad at her
-has weird dream of droplets of water and string and Violet saying, "How many do you need?"
-violet tells him she lost her memories from when she was six
-tells him what she wants to do
-Violet and her dad contact feed tech
-Titus talks to Quendy
-wakes up with long message from Violet
Feminism
-"It was all about how she had lost her memory, and how sometimes she couldn't move parts of her..." (Anderson 219).
-Titus doesn't want to stick around when she can't be stable for him
-"I wanted Violet to be uninsane again, just a person who would touch my face" (Anderson 211).
Marxism
-"Later, before I left, I watched Violet and her father petition for free repairs. Violet's dad couldn't pay for all the tests and shit himself" (Anderson 219).
-people in the lower class speak with higher diction
- "If you do not acquiesce, others will" (Anderson 219).
-"She was like, Da da da, she was completely in mal, don't listen to her, da da da, she's a completely fuguing bitch" (Anderson 221).
Discussion Question:
After you read, go back to pages 229-233 and reread Violet’s “Definitive list of things I want to do.” Then, contrast these activities with the first sentence of the book: “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” Do you think Titus and the others are spoiled by the feed?
Essential Question:
How does Anderson's work question the dangers of overreliance of technology?
-loses control over body and decisions
-become the technology
-loses purpose and individuality
Presentation by: Ally Peeples
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002. Print.