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Why Is The Society Sick In M. T Anderson's Novel Called Feed?

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Our era is the time of media. Technology has been taking over, and sure it is a good thing but it is also bad. The media has influenced our society. Because of it, girls as young as three are insecure about their bodies. The author, M.T Anderson has noticed how the society is sick, so he wrote a novel called Feed. In Anderson's novel, he suggests that the society is sick because of his use of irony and the trend of lesions. To begin, Anderson suggest that the society in his book Feed is sick because of his use of irony. In the chapter “Seashore,” Violet and Titus are at the seashore together. Usually, a seashore is a nice place to be, there are people their surfing, swimming or on the beach tanning, but that’s not how it is in the Novel: “I looked at her. She looked good, through the mask, her big sunglasses brown and purple in the light”(180-181). Violet and Titus are both wearing big, protective orange suits with masks on them. Instead of being able to just wear a bathing suit like you expect at the seashore, they both have to wear protective clothing because of how toxic the seashore is. …show more content…

A lesion is an open wound that is red and can easily become infected. People usually cover their lesions with an adhesive bandage to heal it. But in this society, lesions are good to have, people want lesions. Especially Quendy, she gets jealous of Calistas lesions getting Links attention, so she gets more lesions on her body to make him want her: “-because her whole skin was cut up with artificial lesions. We were all just looking at her. They were all over her”(191). Because of Calistas lesions, Quendy makes her own to get the attention of Link. In this society, lesions are something people actually want. This proves that the society is sick because of the fact an open, oozing wound is what people

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