Feed Me Numero 1

Do you act like the kids in Feed?
The book was based on teenagers and how much they use electronics in their everyday lives. How kids nowadays are constantly connected to the cyber world. I think this was an allegory of how people all over the world now act. It wasn't just kids that were constantly connected to the cyber world. It was also adults that had the "feed". The book described us as arrogant, self-absorbed, stubborn, and detached human beings. In some cases I think we do seem like that in a sense. We hide behind our phones and ipods from people and the world outside of the computer. Everyone is connected to this 24/7 access to the whole world and fashion and gossip. This is just how it is for us. We hear all the gossip or new trends from the tv or computer. We like to be "up to date" with what's going on. Kids then become so obsessed with things like this that they stop caring about the important things like the environment.

I also think by making Titus seem like such a jerk the author did a good job at showing how kids are so robotic with certain things like feelings. We don't know how to react to certain actions or problems so we run away from them. He ignored Violet when she was going through a crisis and even lied about her memories. It seems so realistic though because even I will admit to having ignored someone's text message and than lying about receiving it. We block off people and than blame it on electronics. I also can compare to Quendy following the "lesion" trend. Sometimes there are outrageous trends that people come up with and everyone follows it to stay "hip" and fit in. But even when she pays someone to cut her up she still doesn't get what she wants. i think this would be an allegory of how far we are willing to go in order to get something we want.

Showing that the adults also have feeds is an allegory of how everyone is dependent on technology. Even the old people that say the younger generation are too dependent don't notice that they use it as well. The language that the adults use is also an allegory of how they are conforming into teenagers. By using our words and iming each other. Another allegory that the adults show is how ignorant the father was about how important trees are to the world. He completely shutted out the idea of trees being important. I think this whole book is an allegory of our world.