Analysis Of Feed By M. T Anderson

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Feed, by M.T Anderson, is written in 1st person point of view, with the narrator being a typical teenage boy. Titus enjoys spending time with his friends and taking life for all its worth. He fails to see the wrong in the way humans are now being controlled and has no particular opinions as they are being crafted for him. Bluntly, Titus is much like everyone else, some may compare him to the extremely bland Holden Caulfield of Catcher in the Rye. Despite the fact that none of the characters experience real change by the end of the novel, Titus does at least begin to question the “system” due to his main love interest Violet, who lives life without a binding feed and is thus able to form her own opinions and break away from the crowd. At the

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