The Novel ' Feed '

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards” (“Brainy Quotes” 1). While this epitomizes modern time, it also represents M.T. Anderson’s Feed and Pixar’s Wall-E. Feed is a book about a dystopian society influenced by a device, called “feed”, implanted in the brains of the citizens. The author describes a group of regular teenagers that venture to the moon for a spring break vacation of partying and going “in mal”. The main character, Titus, falls for a girl named Violet who is not like the other stereotypical teens in this book. Violet received the feed when she was much older and she is homeschooled so her brain is more developed. Together, they go on outrageous adventures until a hacker at

In the novel Feed written by M.T. Anderson, the futuristic world the novel is set in a continually evolving and the characters are overcoming challenges in the technological society. This book focuses on the deteriorating world due to technological advances. The most important technological advancement is the “feed” that the corporations in the future will create. The “feed” contributes to how people participate in everyday activities. Only people who can afford one are able to have a “feed” implant. It is a parallel to today’s modern use of technology and cellular devices. Titus, the protagonist, is a teenager that comes from a wealthy family and is he grows up extremely privileged. He and his friends go to the moon for spring break.

Psychologists have always debated the role of parenting styles and their influence on the development of children. Parenting styles can be defined as the psychological construct representing the basic strategies that parent use in raising their child (Matsumoto, Juang 2013 p.69). Parenting styles encompass two major aspects of parting those being parental responsiveness and paternal demanding. Paternal responsiveness is essentially the extent at which a parent fosters individuality, self-regulation, and self-assertion. While paternal demanding is the measure of which the parent makes the child

A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.

Anderson also warns the readers of technology through the character of Violet. Violet is the girl who Titus meets in the first act of the story and the one who ultimately opens up his eyes to the world past the feed. In her resistance of the feed, Violet meets her end, and this for Anderson send the message across that technology is bad. In her attempts to be free, Violet practices self control. Anderson writes,“She had this whole thing about self-control, okay, and the importance of self-control. For example, she said, when she bought something, she wouldn't let herself order it for a long time” (Anderson 143). Violet has a routine that she follows whenever she wants something from the feed that helps her with the feeling of having control over herself. She waits a long time before she gets anything unlike everyone else because, in her mind, it keeps the feed from owning her. Violet’s struggle for power with the feed and how it leads to her demise is one of the main conflicts in the story. The feed’s grip on society and Violet’s method of resistance shows how the feed is something that is depended on. Despite her tries to control herself, the feed ends up winning in the end. In another attempt to cut the feed’s control to of her, Violet goes on a quest to create an untraceable customer profile. This ultimately backfires on her when she gets hacked at a party. When asked if they can fix her, the feed companies explains that, “We're sorry, Violet Durn.

With over three hundred million Americans and over six billion people worldwide parenting skills are essential to maintain a healthy society. Parenting involves many aspects and requires many skills. It is a time to nurture, instruct, and correct to develop fundamental skills children will need to be mature, responsible, and contributing adults to a society. There are four commonly identified parenting styles; authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved parenting. Of the four parenting styles, two remain on opposite ends of the parenting spectrum. These two styles; authoritarian, and permissive both have deleterious results that are often visible throughout different developmental stages, such as rebellious behavior. As well

Raising sons in single-parent households makes the mothers of Wes and Wes very influential on their children. Parenting can give minors a pathway to success or it can be a substantial risk factor for behavior issues: “Lack of parental involvement, poor monitoring and supervision, and harsh and inconsistent discipline, have all been established as strong predictors of antisocial outcomes in children and adolescents” (Hawes). While neither mother is able to adequately supervise their children due to their working statuses, Joy

Character Study : Titus is a teenage boy with the feed. Though he speaks like all of his friends, he is shown as a smarter person than most of his friends in many ways. He uses metaphors and notices little details more than his friends. "I could feel like I was getting closer to Violet, which was like a present which I didn't know what was inside of." (page 190)

M.T Anderson’s novel, Feed and the film Kingsman: The Secret Service directed by Matthew Vaughn, challenge attitudes and beliefs through the interactions with others. Through the use of positive and negative communication, attitudes and beliefs have been challenged through the interactions between the main characters in both Feed and Kingsman: The Secret Service. Anderson and Vaughn explore interactions through the way individuals live, interact and communicate in a range of social situations.  Feed is a satirical novel and depicts a dystopian society where privacy does not exist and mind control is taken for granted. Kingsman: The Secret Service shows inventive technology and shows levels of satire, both Feed and Kingsman: The Secret Service

Feed by M. T. Anderson is a science fiction novel based on a dystopian world where seventy percent of the population have microchips in their brains and wires running through their bodies that they use to connect to the "FeedNet", which is similar to our internet now. Even one hundred years in the future, there will still be problems with technology. But when that technology controls your body, the problems are more detrimental. Titus is a teenage boy who, like the majority of other Feed users, is oblivious to these problems. But then he meets Violet.

The book Feed, by M. T. Anderson, is a science fiction novel that depicts a future where the whole of human knowledge is no longer at people’s fingertips, or a click of a button; it is instead accessible via a single thought. A widespread technology called the feed allows people to access the internet by a stream of information wired directly to their brain. The story follows a teenager named Titus and mostly focuses on the feed and how it affects him and the people he comes in contact with. One major issue in this book is that in Titus’s society, this easy access to technology fuels people’s already selfish natures to where they value physical commodities above all else and only care about other people when that person will benefit them in some way.

Additionally, the mothers of the insecure children were “less warm and supportive” and “less stimulating of cognitive development than

The novel describes scenarios of the world where we live. For example: people are becoming less intelligent because technology is dominating the human race. Moreover, One major theme is how technology, including media and advertising, ruins the future. Since the feed is in the teenagers' head, they live and die by the feed. Everything they want is

Parenting styles have been widely defined by Baumrind into three categories, authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. Parenting styles can be defined as a pattern of attitudes in how parents choose to express and communicate with their children. These styles are categorized based on the level of nurturance, parental control and level of responsiveness (Dwairy, 2004). Authoritative style exhibits high levels of demand, responsiveness and nurturance; authoritarian style exhibits high levels of demand but low levels of responsiveness, permissive style exhibits low levels of demand but high in responsiveness and nurturance (Dwairy, 2004). These parenting styles have been proposed to have a significant impact on a child’s

Parenting types and parenting styles are defined by Schroeder & Mowen (2012) "as the attitudes, behaviors, and interaction styles that, when taken together, create an emotional context in which socialization efforts and family interactions can occur" (pg.229). This time when socialization is occurring it gives parents the opportunity to develop a well emotionally grounded