Feed By M. T. Anderson Summary

Feed by M. T. Anderson addresses many issues that technologically advanced societies run into, namely the overwhelming control from the internet and corporations. Many of these issues are just projecting some issues that we face in current day America but to an extreme. These issues include: pollution, following trends, social groups, gossiping, ad placement, class warfare, imperialism, death, social deviance, environmental derogation, and genetic modification. M. T. Anderson wastes no time with fluff in the book, most of the pages contain either deep emotional building of the characters, or societal commentary. The book starts with a group of six friends going to the moon. This Group of friends was a combination of triads and dyads, where the three girls, Loga, Calista, and Quendy. These three girls acted as a triad, with Calista as the leader, but Loga and Quendy were on the same level within the triad. This made Calista the glue …show more content…
The main thing that Titus does is what he does not do with his friends. He does not go into mal with Link and Marty. He finds the stuff that they are doing is stupid. However, as much as the book shows, un popular things eventually become popular, so Titus ends up going mal.
In the beginning of Feed People are getting lesions. The lesions are originally viewed as bad, but then due to the celebrities getting them too they become popular, to the point that Calista and Quendy both get lesion implants. Calista gets a large one on the back of her neck however Quendy gets multiple which leads to Violet snapping and her feed breaking. Violet says the reality of their situation that is not realized by the rest of society. She says that they are being consumed by the feed. That they are being turned into monsters by the feed. (p. 202) She then collapses and has to be rushed to the