What Is The Theme Of The Book Feed By M. T. Anderson

The author of Feed, M.T. Anderson, does well when giving his readers a picture of the world that Titus and his friends live in. He mentions that the moon can be regularly visited on, how the characters live in portal homes, and how they all have a computer in their heads that is main into them, like a vital organ. Anderson also points that use of language. He does this by continuing to make Violet and her father use elaborate words, while Titus and everyone else doesn’t. This small feature shows us that language in forgotten and society doesn’t care much about it anymore. One of the reasons is that the feed is responsible. Children in the book are grown up with feed; just like in the present day how children are now being grown with cellphones and television, they are growing up with advertisements and everything in their brains. Humans don’t feel the need to pick up a book and read or learn new things because they can just look it up inside their heads. For example, when Titus first meets Violet, he has to look up the word “supperable” because he didn’t know what it meant.

In present society, today, we actually learn, which the children in Feed learn how to decorate their room, which isn’t really learning. Another example is how Titus and his friends watch a popular TV show called, “What! Oh! A Thing!”, which shows that not only the children are not using the use of language properly but so are the adults. However the only adult that cares about the drying language is Violet’s father who quotes, “He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony so no one can simplify anything he says" (137). Unfortunately, society doesn’t care about the language, so Violet’s father doesn’t get paid as much than regular people and is seen as an outcast by