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Society Molds Human Identity In Feed By M. T. Anderson

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Society molds human identity. In the satire Feed by M.T Anderson, technological advances have robbed the characters of their individuality. Differences are frowned upon in Titus' society. As a result, all the characters have become sheep and just follow the trend. They alter themselves and their interests to follow society’s standards. From birth, the characters have grown up with this idea of perfection. They all grew up with a specific type of person that is accepted in their society and strive to be like that person. In Feed, the feed prevents characters from making their own identities because they grow up with ideas of who they are supposed to be and how they are supposed to act. In the novel, there is one type of person that is accepted …show more content…

It tells them who they are and what they need to should like. The characters do not want ignore the feed because they want to be the people that society wants them to be. The feed gives them access to what was cool like outfits and toy. It tells them what clothes and things to do where trending at the moment. Furthermore, they see the importance of the feed. They know that without the feed they would be outcasts and most of the characters in the novel want to be liked. Violet’s dad did not have the feed and he was seen as weird. While Titus did not explicitly tell Violet what he thought of her dad, he did see him as strange. The feed is all that the characters know and they do not want to lose it. The feed is so normal in the characters’ world. When Violet was explaining the bad aspects of the feed, Titus did not really care: “This is the kind of thing people talked about a lot… how everything on the feed has its price, and okay, it may be true, but it’s also boring, so I was like, ‘Yeah. Okay. That’s the feed. So what?’” (111). The feed has because a normal thing in their world that they don’t care about the negative aspects about it, only the positives. It has prevented the characters from making their own identities, but they don’t mind because it gives them information on how to act and what to

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