Feed By M. T Anderson: Summary

M.T Anderson uses this novel to show how current modern societal issues could expand and worsen. By writing this novel, M.T Anderson is giving an example of how the problem that are ignore or considered normal could turn into something that people now would see very big issues with. M.T Anderson has written this novel as a warning to the current society. The novel is saying that if people don’t start taking care and acknowledging the earth current stage of environmental health, that we will all be living in domes very soon, and that's the exaggerated truth. M.T Anderson has a very cruel way of showing readers this, but the scary part is this could one day all happen. In Feed, M.T Anderson uses satire to exaggerate modern societal issues like hyper consumerism, environmental and human health catastrophe, and the degeneration of thought and language to communicate to modern society that current lifestyles will be the end of humanity, intelligence, and the environment. …show more content…
M.T Anderson uses the slang language that today’s cultures show to model the degradation of language and heavy use of slang and cursing. Not only does the youth do this but also Titus parents. M.T Anderson is also saying that the falling of this “feed society” is all because of the constant consumerist influence. His way of commenting of the consumerist desires are by showing the disintegration of the natural environment. The power that the feed has over Titus and his friends is too powerful for Titus to break. Because all Titus ever wanted to be was cool, so there’s no point for Violet to try to show him what the corporations are really up to. Because the feed has too much of a hold on him and he wouldn’t be Titus without it. In conclusion, feed shows people that this is what will come of society if we don’t start to care about how we live and the way we