M. T Anderson's Feed Analysis

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There will Never be a Chip in my Brain

M.T Anderson leads us to believe that the feed is actually a bad thing in his novel, Feed, because it is causing people to lose their vocabulary and be controlled by the feed. First, the feed has been causing people to forget simple words, and make the person use words that it suggest. When Titus first sees Violet, he is awestruck. He thinks she is pretty but can't think of the words to describe her: "Her spine was, I didn't know the word. Her spine was like...? The feed suggested ‘supple’"(14). Titus seems to be trying to find the words, but he can't because the feed won't let him. The feed makes him dependent by blocking out the words so he has to use the word it suggests. Moving on, another way that

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