Feed A [HW #12]

Feed da da da great book da da da. It represents our da da da lives.

With the guidance of an adult figure, we realized that Feed is actually an allegory. And with that being said, we went on a search for the specifics. One blogger noticed that the details of the setting were kept to a minimal, and he connected that the video projects of Andy and John in class 1. Both the videos and the book implied that we're not aware of our surroundings when we're engulf ourselves in technology. It's always about "Wait, what did he say?" or the "I know he did not just say that" or the "Say it to my face, asshole." And now our awareness of the environment has been reduced down to "We went to the moon" (3) and "We went back to Earth" (75).

"I was disgusted, like Huh? You can see her like muscles and tendons and ligaments and stuff through the lesions. Yeah, said Marty, which makes you kind of think about what's inside, huh? Which is sexy." (199)- I saw lesions as a parallel to us whining about our flaws. We boast about our imperfections in order to grab attention, similar to how Quendy would surgically cut herself open to look "sexy." It is something that reveals tiny aspects of our lives (bodies in their case).

Yeah, Violet was an important character. Throughout the whole book, she was always riding the line between sparking a revolution and fitting in with the dumb people. She tried to be critical and true, while being fun and accepted. To some degree, we all do that as well. It's just a matter of how far we go until we eliminate the contradiction and pick a side (and it would appear that we tend to go towards the fun and accepted- it's probably due to the fear of being "mean"). But Violet never really got to that point, before dying.

Every time Violet would present to Titus and his posse, the bigger picture, they would either: a) call her crazy and "yelling, 'Fuck you!' at her body" b) get distracted by the minor details (which are important too, but the characters in this book just see it as it is- and so do we). It's kind of like if one person said, "Yo, Disney is evil. It's taking over our childhoods. Our childhood is Disney," and the other person responded, "I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove Disney!" Everyone neglects what Violet says. Perhaps changing our way of life is far too overwhelming for us. So we'd rather omit or postpone (mostly omit) the problem presented.

Being that Violet appears to be the only person that understands the situation that they are in, and that she ends up dying, Feed could represent the very last moments of that human conscience still exists, assuming it still does. Digital technology has finally obtained monopoly.

The party is over. The fucking party is over.